. Obstetrics: the science and the art. 408 PELVIC PEESENTATIOlSrS. Pig. 87. t. sion. As soon as the body is so farborn as to permit the navel-string to bereached, it is to be drawn downwardsa little, so as to free it from the dangerof being broken off, or the other dan-ger of a too early detachment of theplacenta. It is easy to draw a consider-able loop of it downwards, by pullingat the yielding portion, as in Fig. soon as the feet are delivered andextended, they, as well as the body,should be wrapped in a napkin, inorder that the skin may not suffer anyinjury, and also for the purpose o
. Obstetrics: the science and the art. 408 PELVIC PEESENTATIOlSrS. Pig. 87. t. sion. As soon as the body is so farborn as to permit the navel-string to bereached, it is to be drawn downwardsa little, so as to free it from the dangerof being broken off, or the other dan-ger of a too early detachment of theplacenta. It is easy to draw a consider-able loop of it downwards, by pullingat the yielding portion, as in Fig. soon as the feet are delivered andextended, they, as well as the body,should be wrapped in a napkin, inorder that the skin may not suffer anyinjury, and also for the purpose of en-abling the accoucheur to hold it morefirmly, which he could not otherwisedo on account of the viscous nature of the substances that adhere to it soon after it emerges. Fig. 88. 668. First Position.—In the first position of the breech, thechilds left hip should rotate to the left towards the pubis so as toallow the sacrum to glide down along the ischium, and the righthip to fall into the hollow of the sacrum. Fig. 88 shows this pelvicpresentation in situ before rotati
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