Abstract
Although aerial respiration only begins at birth, it is currently widely recognized that breathing has a long preparatory history during the 9 months preceding parturition. In describing the changes occurring at birth, most authors purposely omit the idiomatic expression ‘first breath’ and talk instead about a shift from periodic to continuous respiration.
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Bocconi, L., Boschetto, C., Ceriani, F., Kustermann, A. (2010). Fetal Breathing Movements. In: Development of Normal Fetal Movements. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1402-2_5
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