One of the pitfalls in the birth of a large infant is urging the mother
to push a little more for the chin to be birthed. I'm talking about
those faces that creep over the perineum and stop with the upper lip of
the baby out of the perineum and the lower lip still inside. There's
something
I think it's erroneous to describe breaking the clavicle as a
"technique". It's always an accident when it happens and no one is
trying to break a clavicle. Those babies are slippery, pudgy and when
they're jammed in tight you have absolutely no room to flex them. I
think of it like trying to
G Lemay wrote:
One of the pitfalls in the birth of a large infant is urging the
mother to push a little more for the chin to be birthed. I'm
talking about those faces that creep over the perineum and stop with
the upper lip of the baby out of the perineum and the lower lip still
inside.
