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How common is it for newborns to be resuscitated and/or "suctioned" after birth?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
They are NOT "all" suctioned; some practitioners keep current with the research/use common sense...
Very hard to find out "how common" stuff like that is, but Henci Goer's "The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth" includes a lot of numbers on interventions like that, if you're really curious.
Source(s): NB to "oh, all babies get it" folk: "The results obtained in this study provide no physiological basis to recommend routine airway suction at birth in normal, term, vaginally born infants." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1432554 - Sublime_SavvyLv 61 decade ago
If a baby has aspirated, that is, inhaled amniotic fluid before it was suctioned out of his mouth and nose or if the cord was wrapped around the baby's neck during delivery, chances are much higher that the child may need advanced suctioning and "resuscitation". If they haven't started crying within 45 seconds to a minute, massaging the chest is common along with oxygen.
Source(s): EMT Basic - 1 decade ago
All babies are suctioned to clear the fluid out of their airways, so it is quite common.
Being resuscitated is not common. It would only be reserved for babies who were born not breathing, which is in itself not common.
Source(s): Common sense and research Personal experience and opinion Mom of three! - 1 decade ago
They're all suctioned and rubbed down to get them started. Resuscitated, not so much.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
the doctor always suctions the baby to get all of the amniotic fluid out
