Table 5.

Clinical information and outcomes in newborn infants needing resuscitation at birth where mothers had declined consent to participate in the FHR monitoring. For abbreviations see list

Maternal age (years)	Parity	Change in FHR identified on partograph	Delivery	Apgar scores at 1 and 5 min; Wt. of baby	Resuscitation given	Maternal comment	Other possibly relevant information?
29–39	G3P2	None	Normal vaginal delivery	2 and 3 3.4Kg	Resuscitated with bag and mask ventilation, chest compressions and oxygen Admitted NNU but later died aged 2 days from HIE	None	Mother declined monitoring and staff could not take over
18–28	G2P1	None	Normal vaginal delivery	4 and 6 Depressed 2.8Kg	Resuscitation was done with bag and mask ventilation and was taken to the neonatal ward. Treated with antibiotics. Outcome was good and discharged.	None	Patient declined to continue her fetal heart rate monitoring even though she did monitor the first contraction
18–28	G1P0	None	Normal vaginal delivery	2 and 6 Very depressed	Resuscitated by bag and mask ventilation by neonatal clinician Died aged 3 days from HIE	None	Patient declined to continue her fetal heart rate monitoring even though she did monitor the first contraction

Abbreviations are defined in the list given earlier in the manuscript