eli5 Why is it important that the baby cries after birth

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I saw a reel on how african doctors will slap the baby for them to cry and i know for a fact that this is true and there must be a reason behind it but i just don’t get it

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You know when you get new paper bag, you’ll wave it in the air to fluff it up to it’s intended size, before putting things inside. Newborn baby lungs are sorta like that. They gotta take a deep breath to fluff up an unused lung and crying does that. Also, such stretching is said to be painful, so more crying and more stretching, more breathing and more oxygen. lungs of stillborn babies sink cause they aren’t fluffed up.

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