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This was a prospective cross\u2010sectional study. <jats:italic>Setting<\/jats:italic>. University teaching hospital. <jats:italic>Sample<\/jats:italic>. Twenty healthy pregnant women at term (38\u201342 weeks) were included in this study. Among them, 10 were delivered by elective cesarean section and 10 had normal vaginal delivery. <jats:italic>Methods<\/jats:italic>. Umbilical vein volume blood flow was measured &lt;24 hours before delivery. Immediately after delivery, the fetal weight was determined, and the umbilical venous and arterial blood samples were obtained. Blood gas analysis was performed and hemoglobin content was measured. Fetal oxygen uptake was calculated as a product of umbilical venous blood flow and the difference in the umbilical arterial and venous oxygen content. <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>. We found that the mean oxygen uptake in human fetuses at term (median gestational age 39 weeks) to be 6.58 ml\/min\/kg (i.e. 0.29 mmol\/min\/kg). 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