Main Findings
We found that a change in clinical care to offer fetal wellbeing
surveillance from 39 rather than 41 weeks in gestation for south Asian
born was associated with a significant reduction in the rates of both
stillbirth and neonatal death at term without increasing rates of
perinatal morbidity, early term birth or interventions such as induction
of labour or caesarean birth. Following the change in clinical care the
rates of stillbirth for south Asian born women were equivalent to all
other women at the maternity service and we did not observe any
stillbirths or neonatal deaths after 39 weeks’ gestation. To our
knowledge this is the first stillbirth prevention intervention for
migrant women globally.