Over on The Clay Experience (AKA: Unintelligent Design) Clark Bartram often has interesting posts about his experiences as a pediatrician. Last April he posted a gripping recounting of one of those experiences. It’s the story of an emergency Cesarean Section delivery that includes this account of his working with the just-deliverd child. He’s working his way through a standardized set of steps to ensure the neonate lives:
I did this for 30 seconds with no response. The heart rate was steady at just over 60 beats per minute [should be 100] and the child lay before me blue, silent, and still. I’ve never wanted to hear a child cry so much in my life.
I know that one can’t predict precisely from birth events, but descriptions such as this one make me apprehensive about the future for children who make it through such events.
Link to Dr. Bartram’s full account of this story.
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