What really is mind - boggling to me about this research is that I have always assumed that the midwives lie
about their Apgars.
Not exact matches
Let's focus more what the
Apgar zero paper says
about the outcomes of midwives» deliveries in the hospital.
May you be one of the women who has a not very painful 10 hour labor, delivers a baby with 9/10
apgars, and departs the hospital thinking, «What was all the fuss
about?»
I'm sure they lie
about plenty of their
Apgar scores but it would probably seem silly to lie
about a 0 at 5 minutes.
Labor induction has been increasing since the early 1990s, 1 and the rate is running at
about 20 % for pregnancies at term.2, 3 Induction of labor compared with spontaneous labor is associated with adverse maternal outcomes, including at least a doubling in the caesarean delivery rate, 4,5 25 — 50 % increase in instrumental vaginal delivery rate, 3,5 higher postpartum hemorrhage rate, 5 and prolonged labor.5 Neonates born after induced labor are more likely to have low
Apgar score and low umbilical cord blood pH. 5
The researchers point out, however, that it was an observational study and that no definite conclusions
about causality between
Apgar score and the risk of neurological morbidity in babies can be drawn.
One of the essays here is
about a woman named Virginia
Apgar who invented the
Apgar score for obstetrics.
First, show the meaning in the goal: In Burke's Numbers Matter, students are educated
about the importance of their numbers, from their
APGAR score as newborns, to their 1/4 mile sprint time, yards rushed, baskets and assists, SAT / ACT score, to their blood pressure as adults.