Maternal awareness of fetal seizures in pregnancies resulting in newborn encephalopathy

Since fetal seizures were first reported by Badr El Din (1) there have been several case reports of fetal seizures witnessed during ultrasonography (2 , 3) with uniformly adverse outcome. We report a subgroup of women from the Western Australian Newborn Encephalopathy Study (4, 5) who presented to th eir doctors during pregnancy with concern that their baby was having fits a nd whose babies subsequently developed newborn encephalopathy.