The Baby's First Cry After Birth
Item
- Title
- The Baby's First Cry After Birth
- Author(s)
- Hämmerle Ulrike
- Abstract
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The aim of my thesis is to take scientific a look at the baby’s first cry right after birth and
the effects if it does not occure within the first 20 seconds. To me personally the topic is so
important since I strongly believe that many diseases such as weakness of the immune
system or recidivious infectsions, parcially disturbed abilities or learning difficulties derive
from the lack of the baby’s first cry.
My examination consisted of 34 children of both sexes aged two to 12 month. One half
performed the first cry within 20 seconds after birth, the other half didn’t. For the reason
of documentation I used a patient data sheet provided by the Osteopathic Childrens Clinic
in London. An additional statistic-sheet was used for the evaluation.
The evaluation proved an obvious and interesting differnece between critical or rather
uncritical course of pregnancy and birth. Babies who performed their first cry within 20
seconds came from more difficult pregnancies than those who did not cry out loud.
Sometimes even the umbilical cord was twisted around their necks. In comparison the ones
without the cry came from rather untroubled pregnancies.
A great differnce was also noticed in term of suctioning: non-crying-babies got suctioned
more often than crying-babies.
The most tremendous difference between the two groups were the physical changes of the
children’s bodies. With non-cryers I examined more often tentions on the sternum, on
C0/C1 and on anterioren dura girdle, a not completely expanded diaphragm and third
ventricle as well as an unclear midline.
There were also interesting diffenrecens in terms of symtoms. Non-cryers were diagnosed
more often with restlessness, weaping and re-accuring congested sinuses.
No obvious differences I found concerning the duration of contaractions and drip. There
were also no differences in terms of insymetry of head bones, strains, thorathic spine
tentions and flatulence.
Originally unintentional I found interesting information on vaccination while working on
this survey. There were more vaccinated children who were non-cryers within their first 20
seconds of birth. Having examined this I supposed that there was an influende on the third
ventricle. But further examination proved that wrong; there seems to be no immediate
correlation between vaccination and the reaction on the third ventricle. However, a fully
expanded third ventricle supports the child’s organism to handle the vaccination in an
adequate way.
9. Closing Regards
In analyzing my findings, I paid careful attention to interpreting the results objectively.
Some of the results I had already expected before conducting the study, while some of the
findings were surprising and thus very interesting.
In the future, it would certainly be important to carry out another survey with a larger test
group but more limited as regards the age of the children tested in order to come to more
meaningful results and to gain more information about the newborn's first cry.
It would also be of interest to carry out a similar study among slightly older children to
find out more about the history and the course of the children's various diseases. This
would help to conclude whether the lack of a first cry and an only partly expanded third
ventricle really cause a higher number of asthmatic diseases and allergies. However, it is of
great importance to inform parents and the obstetricians about the topic.
For the osteopath, it is extremely important to pay careful attention to the midline, the
expansion of the diaphragm, the anterior dura girdle, C0/C1 and in particular to a fully
expanded third ventricle. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 0
- Date Submitted
- 1.1.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12283
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Birth
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- Haemmerle.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- Haemmerle.pdf
Hämmerle Ulrike, “The Baby's First Cry After Birth”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed October 31, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/3079