Simultaneous recording of fetal breathing movements and body movements in twin pregnancy.

The Value of Reporting Decreased or Absent Fetal Movements by Mothers in Predicting the Pregnancy Outcome

Fetal breathing movements and other tests of fetal wellbeing: a comparative evaluation.

Sixty pregnant women whose fetuses were considered to be at high risk were intensively studied with fetal and placental function tests. Fetal breathing movements were studied with real-time ultrasound and the amount of time spent breathing and the variability of the breath-to-breath interval were measured. A reduction in the amount of time the fetus spent making breathing movements and decrease...

Effect of cigarette smoking on fetal breathing movements in normal pregnancies.

In 18 women with uncomplicated pregnancies smoking two cigarettes significantly reduced the proportion of the time that fetal breathing movements were present.

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Fetal behavior Anencephaly Medulla oblongata Abstract Fetal behavior in monozygotic twins, one being anencephalic, was serially recorded from 20 to 35 weeks of gestation and analyzed. The commencement of breathing movement was concluded to reflect the development of the medulla oblongata of the fetus. Osamu Kurauchi, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University School of Medic...

Behavioral states and breathing activity in the fetus near term.

Measurement of fetal breathing movements (FBM) has found considerable clinical interest recently, because it is thought to be predictive of fetal health or compromise. However, from our investigations on fetal state behavior [7, 8] methods for assessing FBM generally used so far seem to be inadequate and results are suspect of being unreliable: in the fetal lamb and in the rhesus monkey fetus F...