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What Causes D-cells In The Newborn?
My friend s daughter just had a baby, and her labor was over 36 hours because of the baby s heart rate...from what I understand, the doctors chose to go through the labor slowly because of the heart rate. When the baby was born, the cord was wrapped around his neck, he had to have a testicle removed because of tortion, and he had to have hernia repair. After labor, the mother posted that the baby had a lot of D- cells floating around in his blood. I ve tried to look this up, but I don t really understand it. Did the D-cells cause any of the problems that he has had in just these few days? What causes the D-cells?
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Wed, 11 Nov 2015
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well D cells are related to the instrument called cardiotocograph that measure fetal heart rate and usually implies late deceleration.that means due to mothers hypotension{probably} the baby s heart rat had gone down . it can happen when the labour time was too long,or due to some drog s, or in case of c section with some anaesthesia
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