He took some photos and when they moved the boys to
do the APGAR checks he asked me if it's ok if he leaves my side for a second to check on his boys.
Then the midwife
did the APGAR test, then handed the baby back to me for a first feeding — which helps with the delivery of the placenta.
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Not exact matches
Tell that to the NURSE who told me if I didn't let her give me Pitocin that my baby would be born «with
apgars of zero — that means dead.»
There was no difference in their
APGAR scores at 3 days, and at one month, the children who were exposed actually appeared to be
doing better: they were more alert and less irritable.
Once that is completed, the umbilical cord will get clamped and cut so that the baby can have his
Apgar test
done.
When we examine a little more closely what it means to have a 5 - minute
Apgar score of zero, we might find that it
does include some babies who died shortly after birth.
This study
did not examine that outcome, nor
did it measure how many newborns had low
APGAR or required resuscitation.
She had a little trouble breathing and so had an
Apgar score initially of 5 but as soon as they bulb suctioned she
did breathe and she ended up with a 9 five minutes later.
Being able to take baby over to the warmer quickly, assess baby, give baby some
APGAR scores and then get baby back to mom's chest it doesn't interfere with my operation and it doesn't interfere necessarily with what the anesthesiologist is trying to make sure that mom is
doing ok.
In response to the earlier comment...
Apgar scores at 1 and 5 minutes can be
done while baby is in mom's arms.
A baby born «lifeless» — that is, blue, no heart rate, no respiratory effort, no movement at all — doesn't get to a 1 - minute
apgar of 5.
Does anyone with medical training think for a second this baby truly had
apgars of 5, 6, and 8 prior to trfr?
Moreover, adding the tiny number of «
Apgar 0» births misattributed to the hospital back into the OOH column has a much larger impact on the OOH low -
Apgar rates than
does adding back in the 10 % or so of successful livebirths.
I don't assign
Apgars myself, the baby nurse
does, and I would never ever challenge his / her assessment.
So, yes, I
do have an idea, my one nephew was still born, in a hospital at 38 weeks (not the hospitals fault, it was ob negligence, he died 2 weeks earlier) and their next child was delivered by c - section which was considered «emergency» even though she was made to wait 45 minutes before they could operate, and baby was born not breathing, with an
apgar of 2 and has cerebral palsy.
The choice of an
Apgar score of zero and the primary outcome measurement is particularly apt, since severe neurologic injury is particularly likely at homebirth, because homebirth midwives
do not monitor the fetal heart rate appropriately.
Saying «Here are 27,000 planned HBs with accurate reporting of
APGARS and outcomes, planned place of delivery and type of attendant, and we don't show the same findings as this study».
Although 5 minute
Apgar = 0
does not necessarily mean stillbirth.
The most recent studies suggest that an epidural
does not have a negative effect on a newborn (as measured by his
Apgar score, an evaluation routinely
done immediately following birth).
I don't know (and other people here
do), but I
do know that, per the Grunebaum paper, if a baby is born with an
APGAR of 0 far from qualified personnel to resuscitate him / her, their prognosis is as grim as it can possibly be.
The
Apgar score is a simple assessment of how a baby is
doing at birth, which helps determine whether your newborn is ready to meet the world without additional medical assistance.
Though this was a relatively small, retrospective study, the results
did reveal that women who were given Pitocin to induce or augment their labors
did have an increased risk of having a baby with lower
Apgar scores or who required admission to the NICU.
The rates of NICU admissions and low
Apgar scores
did not significantly differ among nulliparous women (NICU admissions up to 28 days, 3.41 % versus 3.61 %, aOR 1.05, 95 % CI: 0.92 to 1.18).
No matter where baby ends up immediately after delivery, they will be assessed for the following:
APGAR: a quick assessment of baby's overall health
done at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth.
The analysis of the socio - demographic, prenatal and natal parameters of mothers and newborns in the intervention group and control group (Table 1)
did not reveal any statistically significant differences in terms of age, living area, education level, mother's profession, number of children, medical follow - up, number of prenatal visits,
Apgar score and birth weight.
They claim a low rate of low
apgars, implying that their rate of hypoxia is low, but given the poor ability of non-CNM midwives to assess
apgars, I don't think the claim is meaningful.
At one and five minutes after birth, an
Apgar assessment will be
done to evaluate your baby's heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and color.
I've
done 3 «phone births», with dads & Grandmother catching baby, 1 in an old hippie bus, 1 by a creek, 4 at my home, a few by myself before my assistant could make it — had a friend write down FHT's,
APGARS, times, etc..
Rates of low
Apgar scores at 5 minutes
did not differ among the groups (Table 5)(p value cut - off for statistical significance after Bonferroni correction 0.003).
A low 1 - minute
Apgar score is common among premature babies and some babies delivered via abdominal surgery (caesarean section), but this
does not mean that your baby will not be fine eventually.
Keep in mind that the
Apgar score doesn't predict the long - term health of your baby.
A 1 - minute
Apgar score of 0 — 3
does not predict any individual infant's outcome.
Exclusion criteria: infants with birthweight < 2500 g, with
Apgar scores < 5, twins, women having operative deliveries, women who
did not speak English
Beyond these matters, however, we are primarily contacting you because the abstract failed to list the important outcomes which
do not differ with provider: perineal trauma, induction of labour, oxytocin augmentation of labour, caesarean section, antenatal hospitalization, post-partum hemorrhage, length of hospital stay, initiation of breast feeding, neonatal
Apgar score, admission to neonatal nursery, fetal loss or death > 24 weeks.
«We also need to work actively with the babies who
do not score full
Apgar points since it is likely to improve their prospects.»
«This means that most babies with very low
Apgar scores
do not develop CP or epilepsy.»
Apgar continued, «Together, these initiatives represent a combined $ 3 billion investment that will ultimately impact a broad group of struggling borrowers across the country and in
doing so further contribute to the Administration's efforts to stabilize housing markets and communities across the country.»
I
did recently come across someone referring to the modified
APGAR score when describing a case of dystocia in a bitch and I must admit I had not heard of it being used before.
These excluded families
did not differ from remaining families (N = 1,605) in maternal education, child race, 1 - minute
APGAR scores, gestational age, or birth weight.