Simona Fumagalli

TL;DR: Maternity services should be organized around women and families needs, providing early labour support, to enable women to feel reassured facilitating their admission in labour to avoid the cascade of intrapartum interventions which increases the risk of caesarean section.

TL;DR: The most traumatic elements of women's experiences were the sudden family separation, self-isolation, transfer to a referral centre, the partner not allowed to be present at birth and limited physical contact with the newborn as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: The guidance provided by midwives during triage assessment seemed to be the key factor influencing women's satisfaction when advised either to return home or to stay at the hospital during early labour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated mothers' satisfaction with childbirth experience in a cohort of women who delivered during COVID pandemia and to compare them to a pre-COVID cohort.

TL;DR: It was shown that intrapartum interventions are negatively associated with maternal outcomes and therefore also with maternal satisfaction with birth and further studies on maternal satisfaction in Italy should be conducted, using the I-BSS-R.