Is it caused by brain hypoxia when the baby stretches hard?

If a mother encounters difficulties or other symptoms during the delivery process, it will easily cause brain hypoxia in the baby, which can cause serious damage to the baby's brain and are irreversible. During childbirth, mothers should do some preventive work to avoid such situations. When a baby is born, he or she may sometimes stretch his or her body vigorously, and many mothers may worry that this is caused by brain hypoxia.

Symptoms of brain hypoxia in babies

1. Being very "sensitive" or "excited". Normal newborns (especially low birth weight babies) will become "excited" and "sensitive" when they are hungry, but newborns with cerebral palsy are prone to this even when they are not hungry.

2. Excessive irritability, continuous crying, difficulty falling asleep, general fatigue, weak or tight limbs. Some parents even report that "this child cries all night long." About 30% of children with cerebral palsy have symptoms similar to severe "colic" within 3 months after birth, with sudden and violent crying.

3. Frequent spitting, often with half-open mouth, and the tongue constantly moving, with little or a lot of movement, in a stereotyped manner. The symptoms of this type of cerebral palsy in children are often early symptoms of athetoid cerebral palsy.

4. Difficulty in care, such as difficulty in inserting the arms into the sleeves when dressing, difficulty in abducting the thighs when changing diapers, and difficulty in opening the fists when bathing. Parents often report that their children don't like taking a bath when their feet just touch the edge of the tub or the water surface. The back immediately stiffened and arched. This is also one of the characteristics of neonatal hypoxic ischemic cerebral palsy.

5. Very "sensitive" to sudden sounds or changes in body position, as if frightened.

6. Difficulty in feeding, uncoordinated sucking and swallowing. Sometimes parents report that milk "flows out of the mouth while the child is eating." Difficulty gaining weight.

7. Motor development is not flexible. The baby cannot roll over at 4-5 months and cannot crawl at 9-10 months. The baby has abnormal muscle tone and posture. The muscle tone is not high and the sitting and crawling postures are different from those of normal children.

8. Abnormal reflexes. When you put something in the palm of the child's hand, the child will grasp it and wash it. Innate reflexes will disappear by 6 months old. If they have not disappeared yet, it is abnormal.

The harm of brain hypoxia in babies

1. Doctors usually perform Apgar scores on newborns twice, one minute and five minutes after birth. The normal newborn has a full score of 10 points. The lower the score, the more severe the baby's lack of oxygen and asphyxia before birth. For example, a score of 7 or above indicates mild hypoxia, which often does not affect the prognosis; a score of 4-6 indicates moderate asphyxia, which can usually be recovered in a short time after active treatment; a score of less than 4 indicates severe hypoxia, asphyxia, and respiratory depression.

2. At this time, a doctor must perform emergency rescue and resuscitation to have a chance of improvement, otherwise it is difficult for the newborn to survive. Newborns who have not yet established normal and effective breathing but still have a very low score 10 minutes after birth despite emergency resuscitation may suffer from sequelae such as mental retardation or movement disorders in the future due to damage to brain cells due to prolonged lack of oxygen, even if they survive. Children with this disease have low resistance and are also prone to diseases such as aspiration pneumonia, neonatal scleredema, hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia, neonatal intracranial hemorrhage and systemic infection.