Effect of Anoxia During Labor and Immediately After Birth on the Subsequent Development of the Child

The Effect of Antepartum Haemorrhage on the Health of the Child

“…During the past 10 years there has, however, been an awakening of interest in this period, but the results of studies which have attempted to relate the perinatal condition of an infant and its subsequent development are very confusing. Factors such as foetal distress, anoxia, and cerebral irritation in the newborn period are considered by some authors to be the cause of abnormal neurological and other sequelae (Eastman, 1957), while other writers (Craig, 1950;Benaron, Tucker, Andrews, Boshes, Cohen, Fromm, and Yacorzynski, 1960) deny this association.…”