532 Labor depletes vitamin C in the mother and fetus but maintains vitamin E

Preterm premature rupture of the membranes and antioxidants: the free radical connection

“…One hypothesis offered was that vitamin C consumption is secondary to ROS generation during labor through an ischemia-perfusion related process [81]. Woods et al have shown that labor dramatically decreases vitamin C levels in maternal plasma, fetal plasma and the amniotic fluid while vitamin E levels remained stable.…”