Baby's first poop is one of the first milestones your little one will hit — maybe even before coming out of the womb. The official name for this bowel movement is called meconium and fair warning: it ...

Aspiration of meconium in the airways of the newborn infant leads to plugging and subsequently to inflammatory changes, surfactant inhibition, respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension. There ...

Meconium aspiration and birth asphyxia are both separately connected to significant pulmonary and systemic hemodynamic changes in newborns, but, although these insults frequently coexist, their ...

The new research set out to investigate whether patterns of biomarkers in a baby’s meconium could predict allergy development in the first year of life. Samples of meconium from 100 infants were ...

My patient came in for an induction because her baby was a week late and showed no sign of budging. After the obligatory IV, her doctor came in and checked her cervix. She was already a couple ...

Children could be set on a path to developing allergies, asthma and eczema before they are born. Analysis of a baby’s first stool, known as meconium, shows that a lack of certain biochemicals and gut ...

Even full-term babies born through a smooth vaginal delivery may sometimes need specialised care in a Neonatal Intensive Care ...

OTTAWA (September 1, 2005) – An international randomized trial, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), has revealed that amnioinfusion, the infusion of saline into the uterus, ...

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus both disrupt bowel movements and can require urgent medical attention. The two conditions have different causes and treatments. Hirschsprung disease happens ...