Delivery Mode Affects the Sympathetic Nervous System in Healthy Term Newborns

Abstract

Spontaneous delivery represents an important way triggering the physiological mechanisms essential for a proper postnatal adaptation of a newborn. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a crucial role in this process. There is insufficient data concerning the impact of different delivery mode on ANS in newborns. Therefore, we aimed to study the effect of delivery mode on sympathetic nervous system (SNS) in healthy term newborns measured by electrodermal activity (EDA).

Keywords

• newborn
• delivery mode
• sympathetic nervous system
• electrodermal activity