Negative influence for two thirds, but also positive effects
Two thirds of the participating mothers reported in the survey that the pandemic had a negative impact on their pregnancy, but one in five saw positive effects. For 54 percent, the birth experience was clouded by the pandemic, with 88 percent indicating that despite corona measures, in principle a person of their choice or, in the case of the fathers, they themselves could be present at the birth. In nine percent this was not possible because of the Covid 19 protective measures, whereby fathers may have missed the birth in particular because their presence in the delivery room was only permitted shortly before or they were allowed into the delivery room but not into the operating room.