Additionally, what triggers a baby, once exiting the womb, from taking its first breath?
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Fun sidebar from emergency childbirth classes: if, when you deliver the child, they don’t start breathing on their own, one of the advised initial techniques is to blow on their face. The thinking being this remind/shocks the body into taking a breath.
Never had to try that technique myself and not sure how evidence-based it is, but I’ve seen and heard it a few times since then from healthcare colleagues.
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