2006-08-15 01:43:23 · 7 answers · asked by sucks 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
It's the most effective way to get the baby to take a deep breath and start screaming, as that helps it to open and clean out the airways, which still might have some fluids in them...also, the bronchioles, the tiny bubble like things in the lungs, need to inflate with a proper breath in order to let the lungs work properly then.
Not meant to harm the baby, just a way, even a tad painful, to help it function properly, as breathing is new to it...
2006-08-15 01:50:39 · answer #1 · answered by azeera_2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they don't. In some countries babies were held upside down and their bottoms were smacked to clear the airway to get them breathing, but this doesn't happen anymore.
If a baby is sleepy/sluggish to breath when born the feet are rubbed and tapped to wake them. If that isn't enough the baby is rubbed with a towel to stimulate them, and if that doesn't work then they give them oxygen, which does wake them up. Then if needs be, they go into an incubator.
2006-08-15 09:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - usually the baby cries on it's own. Only if the baby isn't breathing is gentle hitting or other methods used to stimulate the baby into crying.
2006-08-15 08:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by Naomi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the doctor only hits the baby when he does not cry when he is born, in order for the baby's lungs to become filled with air he needs to cry and if the baby is born and does not cry the doctor hits him to make him cry
2006-08-15 08:48:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They no longer spank babies when they are born.
2006-08-15 09:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by momma2mingbu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to learn how to spell
2006-08-15 09:27:33 · answer #6 · answered by littlewind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-08-15 08:48:37 · answer #7 · answered by klm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋