>>Home ----- Site Map Apgar Oxygen an urgent ongoing need Transition fetal to postnatal circulation Tradition Protocols Outcomes Concerns Question Authority References Links Notes Contact: Eileen Nicole Simon eileen4brainresearch@yahoo.com |
Birth: one of life's most hazardous experiences |
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Human childbirth has long been recognized as difficult, and potentially hazardous for both mother and child. |
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Pain, hemorrhage, and postpartum fever have received much attention throughout recorded history. |
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Anesthesia was first used in surgery in 1846, and not long after for women in childbirth. |
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Virginia Apgar introduced her system for scoring the condition of the newborn in 1953, noting that when mothers receive an excessive amount of depressant drugs during labor, it is common for an infant to breathe once, but then become apneic for many minutes. “A satisfactory cry is sometimes not established even when the infant leaves the delivery room ” |
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But should any newborn leave the delivery room, or his connection to his mother before breathing is established? |
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Tlazolteotl, Aztec Goddess of Fertility figurine in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington D.C. |
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