What percentage of babies are born with the umbilical cord around the neck causing hypoxia?
And needing artificial respiration
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- I don't know about the real %, but usually out of my friends and family, I would say 1 out of 10. My second son had that problem. So for me it was 1 out of 4 total, but he was my second pregnancy. And he did go to the NICU for 24 hours.
- Wow, I really don't know this one, but actually, I was born in such a way. My dad tells the story every year on my birthday (it's getting old after 26 years). I was born with the cord around my neck, and it caused long term breathing problems. My parents didn't even get to hold me, I was slapped straight onto a bag and they had to intubate me for awhile til I could breathe on my own.
- I'm not sure about the percentage that need artificial respiration, but I recall reading somewhere that something like 25% of babies are born with the cord around their neck.
- Both my children were born with the cord wrapped tightly around the neck, my daughter was not breathing however my son was unaffected.
- many babies are born that way but apparently it is almost never a problem, it's a natural phenomenon that usually has no complications.
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