Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Arrest in the Delivery Room

To the Editor .— Cardiopulmonary arrest of a healthy term infant in the delivery room after an uneventful vaginal delivery is an extremely rare event.1,2 We recently encountered 2 such cases in term infants born after uneventful pregnancies and nonmedicated vaginal deliveries. In the first, infant breastfeeding was initiated in the delivery room, unobserved, immediately after birth. A short time later, the infant was found pale and motionless while still on the breast. After resuscitation and NICU care, the infant was discharged without obvious neurologic deficit. Similarly, the second infant initiated breastfeeding unobserved in the delivery room shortly after birth. A few minutes later, …