ETA - just on the aspiration of bub's airways, I can understand their need to do it after a csection but I was under the assumption that being birthed vaginally helped to push the mucous off the airways of the baby? Hence why they come out breathing and crying? Or have I got it wrong.
No Anna not wrong, vaginal birth does help squeeze mucous from the babies lungs. But with that particular baby their "reason" for assaulting it like that was because it had passed meconium (ie. done a poo) in utero. They were doing it routinely - because their protocol says that mec babies have to be suctioned - even though it was glaringly obvious to all and sundry that the baby could breathe just fine...since it was screaming its head off