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							Apgar's 1953 paper is displayed below.  Scroll down to the third paragraph, where it is stated that infants may become apneic for many minutes after the first breath, and that a satisfactory cry is sometimes not established even when the infant leaves the delivery room!  We need to ask why the umbilical cord should ever be cut before a satisfactory cry is established.
		Posted: February 27, 2006 (a work in progress)
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