<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Juliann</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blanchard, Christina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Seasely, Angela</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cooley, Abigail</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Beitel, Danyon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Travers, Colm</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sims, Brian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tita, Alan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Casey, Brian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sinkey, Rachel</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maternal Quality of Life Following a Periviable Delivery</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ochsner Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025-09-21 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">162-169</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.31486/toj.25.0008</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Background Data on long-term maternal quality of life following a periviable delivery are lacking. We investigated quality of life measures among patients who delivered a periviable infant.Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients who delivered between gestational ages 220/7 to 256/7 weeks at a single institution from 2013 to 2019 and who completed the validated World Health Organization Quality of Life–Brief Version (WHOQOL–BREF) questionnaire between 2021 and 2022. Mothers who had a surviving infant discharged from the hospital were compared with mothers who had an intrauterine or neonatal demise. Baseline characteristics were summarized, and scores were evaluated based on the 4 prespecified WHOQOL–BREF domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment.Results Overall, 58 patients participated: 32 mothers with a surviving infant and 26 mothers with a demise. Maternal age was lower in the mothers with a surviving infant (25.2 ± 3.9 years vs 29.0 ± 6.0 years; P=0.01). Mean duration from delivery to study start date was not different between the groups (5.1 ± 2.0 years vs 4.5 ± 2.1 years; P=0.31). Mothers with surviving infants scored higher (indicating higher quality of life) in the WHOQOL–BREF psychological health and social relationships domains compared to mothers with a demise. Mothers with a surviving infant were more likely to be satisfied with their own health than mothers with a demise, but overall quality of life was not different between the 2 groups.Conclusion In this small cohort, mothers with an infant who survived a periviable delivery, despite possible long-term health complications for the infant, reported improved quality of life in some domains compared to mothers whose infants did not survive.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>