Fig. 3.

3a. Actigraph measured physical activity during inpatient stay for both vaginal delivery (SVD) and scheduled cesarean delivery (CD) expressed as sedentary, light and moderate activity. Asterisks denote unadjusted P values; after Benjamini–Hochberg correction across the twenty activity comparisons, only differences in sedentary and light activity on days 0–2 remained significant. The number of participants contributing to each full day was 29, 28, 26, 20 and 6 for scheduled cesarean delivery (days 1–5) and 27, 26, 17 and 2 for vaginal delivery (days 1–4). Median observation shown as bold line, box showing the lower and upper quartiles, whiskers representing observations outside the 5–95 percentile range, and diamonds showing outliers. ns = non-significant

3b. Actigraph measured physical activity of entire cohort (combined vaginal and elective cesarean deliveries) during inpatient stay expressed as sedentary, light and moderate activity. Asterisks denote unadjusted P values The number of participants contributing to each full day was 56, 54, 43, 22, 6, 2 and 2 (days 1–7). Median observation shown as bold line, box showing the lower and upper quartiles, whiskers representing observations outside the 5–95 percentile range, and diamonds showing outliers. ns = non significant