What are the after-effects of a forceps baby?

Obstetric forceps clip out of the child may have facial injury, cranial hematoma, clavicle fracture, facial nerve paralysis and other sequelae. 1. Facial injury: newborn skin is relatively delicate, with forceps clamped on the head to help delivery of the fetus, may rub the newborn face, resulting in some damage, after the injury to do a good job disinfection of the wound to avoid wound infection, two or three days or so will be healed. 2. Cranial hematoma: the forceps out of the child may damage the skull local blood vessels, blood vessel rupture bleeding to form a cranial hematoma, small cranial hematoma may be self-absorbed, large cranial hematoma can not be self-absorbed to be dealt with in a timely manner, so as not to leave neurological sequelae. 3. Clavicle fracture: the need to apply forceps is usually the existence of difficult labor, the process of delivery may cause the newborn clavicle fracture, usually relatively minor, do not need special treatment, with the baby’s growth and development can be healed on their own. 4. facial nerve paralysis: due to the narrow birth canal, improper forceps delivery may cause nerve injury outside the temporal bone, triggering facial nerve paralysis sequelae, manifested as incomplete eyelid closure, can not frown, crying facial asymmetry, crooked corners of the mouth, etc., most of the birth of 1 month after the recovery on their own, a very small number of nerve tears can not be restored, the symptoms may persist. Sequelae of children clamped out of labor forceps vary from person to person, and not all children will appear.