[ozmidwifery] mouth tears

[henk / eliza merbis]

Hi All,   I am a newly registered midwife and love all the messages everyone sends to each other. It's like having priveleged information at my fingertips when many questions I have, have not been answered in the past!   Anyway, I was at a C/S recently and the baby was pulled out with forceps (quite a difficult delivery). It went straight over to the resus trolley for O2 and suction and we noticed bilteral tears at each corner of the mouth. Has anyone ever come across this before? They were quite deep and almost looked as though they had been purposely cut (not that I am for a minute implying this). Everyone was baffled - the paed, the consultant, even the head of Obstetrics saying she had never seen it before. They even had a paed come over from the Children's to try to come up with an answer.   ???   Eliza Merbis   P.S. The baby's jaw was quite rigid and stiff if that helps at all!!