How baby breathes after water breaks??

[The[cookie]Doctor]

This is what i was told by the middie -
Bub's head blocks off the exit, so that you're either only leaking a little bit, or after the first gush then leaking.
You don't lose it all at once - Think of how much fluid comes out when you birth the shoulders. Maybe i was just top full of fluid?
So say, bub isn't wholly engaged when your waters break, you might lose a huge gush, but then as bubs head blocks off everywhere, you only trickle?

LOL mind you that didnt answer your question re: how baby breathes, but the others have done that for you.

[BellyBelly]

It's funny isn't it that when they have to resuss a baby that they immediately cut the cord and work on the baby somewhere else when common sense you would think to resuss the baby, cord still attached on the bed with mum so that the oxygen is still available from the cord. Midwives will do that at homebirths.

[Trish]

That's exactly right Kelly. Why do they feel the need to sever the only supply of oxygen some babies have. Why can't they work on bub next to mum, or is it because it would be too traumatic ?? Umm I think I'd still be distressed if my baby was on the other side of the room....