Many common care practices during labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum period impact the fetal to neonatal transition, including medication used during labor, suctioning protocols ...

This article introduces a fundamental component of a perinatal acute care simulator, namely a simulation engine, for normal hemodynamic transitions from the fetal to the early neonatal period.

J Midwifery Womens Health. 2007;52(3):262-272. The current literature refutes the idea that delayed cord clamping causes symptomatic polycythemia and indicates that immediate clamping of the cord ...