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Among a total of 15,250 newborns delivered at wallace memorial Baptist Hospital in a 5 year period
from January 1980 to December 1984, a clinical study was done regarding meconium stained babies.
The results were summarized as follows;
1) The incidence of meconium staining was 10.94% (1,669 babies).
2) Most of the meconium group (95.08%) had a birth weight exceeding 2,500 grams. The incidence
of meconium staining... |