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Is the Second Twin at Risk in Vaginal Delivery?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Robert Derom
Robert Derom
Affiliation:
Association for Scientific Research in Multiple Births, Destelbergen, Belgium.

Abstract

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In a normal delivery the second-born twin experiences a slight degree of hypoxia, which, as a rule, has no clinical importance. It is the oxygen debt everybody makes by running 30 metres.

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Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 10 , Supplement S1 , 01 December 2007 , pp. 3 - 5
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007