The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl ...
BUFFALO — The newborn was struggling to breathe ... condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl was in danger. A tracheostomy looked like the only solution.
After birth, the midwife placed babies on the ground: only if the paterfamilias picked it up was the baby formally accepted into the family. If the decision went the other way, the baby was ...