In a message dated 12/29/98 11:23:11 PM, Mechell Turner wrote:

<<Secondly - I do not remember the video- but for the childbirth certification
we saw a birth close up and upon exiting with the baby emerging and being
bent at the gut it had a "baby heimlich maneuver" and really spit the stuff
up on his own- really neat to see! but the baby doesn't get that with a C-
section.>>

The baby probably won't get it with a medicated vaginal birth either --
another benefit of natural childbirth!

Jennifer Herrin, RN, IBCLC
Neonatal nurse, Tulsa