Meconium is a thick liquid in a baby’s intestines before birth. Most babies poop it out after birth. Stressed babies may pass it before birth and can inhale it at delivery, causing breathing problems ...

Meconium aspiration and birth asphyxia are both separately connected to significant pulmonary and systemic hemodynamic changes in newborns, but, although these insults frequently coexist, their ...

Sometimes, your baby's first stool can end up in the amniotic fluid and, rarely, in his lungs. Luckily, MAS is very treatable.

Meconium is a completely normal part of your baby’s first days. It is their very first stool, which is usually passed after birth. But, in some cases, babies release meconium while still in the womb.

To test our hypothesis, we performed a randomized controlled animal study with piglets exposed to hypoxemia and severe MA. The variables we measured were MABP, PAP, cardiac index (CI), BE, and plasma ...

It is uncertain whether amnioinfusion (infusion of saline into the amniotic cavity) in women who have thick meconium staining of the amniotic fluid reduces the risk of perinatal death, moderate or ...

Meconium, the fecal material that accumulates in the fetal colon throughout gestation, is a term derived from the Greek mekoni, meaning poppy juice or opium. Beginning with Aristotle's observation of ...

The researchers say that although suctioning has been widely practised since the 1970s, there has been little hard evidence of its usefulness. Doctors tend to use it as a precaution when there are ...

When your baby is in the womb, they begin to practice drinking by taking in the surrounding amniotic fluid. The fluid builds up in their intestines, then their body gets rid of the waste, filtering ...

Sandeep and Shweta Bafna, residents of V V Puram, were expecting their second child last year and didn’t think too much of it when the pregnancy crossed 40 weeks. They realised, the hard way ...