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Baby Basasira

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Introduction

Baby Basasira is a girl born at 39 weeks gestation after an uneventful pregnancy. Her mother's membranes ruptured 2 hours before birth, and meconium was present.

 

She initially had poor tone, poor respirations, and was cyanotic across her body.

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