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Science 15 November 1974:
Vol. 186. no. 4164, pp. 634 - 635
DOI: 10.1126/science.186.4164.634
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Local-Regional Anesthesia during Childbirth: Effect on Newborn Behaviors

Kay Standley 1, A. Bradley Soule III 1, Stuart A. Copans 1, and Michael S. Duchowny 1

1 Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Administration of local-regional anesthesia during norgnal deliveries was correlated significantly with newborn behaviors as evaluated by the Brazelton neonatal assessment scale. Three days after birth, infants whose mothers received local-regional anesthesia were more irritable and motorically less mature than those infants whose mothers were not medicated.


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