Identifier: textbookofpracti00granuoft (find matches)
Title: A text-book of practical obstetrics, comprising pregnancy, labor, and the puerpal state, and obstetric surgery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Grandin, Egbert H
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia, Davis
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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c extremity, if the normal mechanism is fol-lowed,—that is to say, if the occiput rotate anteriorly in aposition of thorough flexion, a position which may always bemaintained by suprapubic pressure,—the after-coming heademerges, by its shortest diameters, in turn. As the child is born it is supported by the nurse until theumbilical cord is tied. Where the child is strong and cries lustily the cord maybe tied without special delay; but, if the reverse is the case, itis desirable to wait a few minutes in order that the foetus mayreceive as large an amount of blood as possible. In case thechild is born asphyxiated it is necessary to tie the cord as rap-idly as possible, or to clamp it and to cut between the clamps,in order that the measures requisite for resuscitation may beresorted to. (Plate XXXIII.) The cord should be tied at two places,—the first about oneinch and a half from the umbilicus and the second three tofour inches nearer the mother. Boiled silk-worm gut forms an XX -n
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