Meconium

• “Meconium is the first stool (bowel movement) that a newborn has.”

  Pediatric surgery: Meconium Ileus

• “Meconium dependence of bowel damage in gastroschisis.”

  CHOP gastrointestinal anomaly publications

• “Meconium comes from the baby swallowing blood along with amniotic fluid during the last phase of pregnancy; the blood comes from placental capillaries that break before and during labor.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “Meconium ileus is a bowel obstruction that occurs when the meconium in your child's intestine is even thicker and stickier than normal meconium, creating a blockage in a part of the small intestine called the ileum.”

  Pediatric surgery: Meconium Ileus

• “The only difference being they did not go through the trauma at birth that my little guy did, he trauma started with Meconium Aspiration that was NOT suctioned below the vocal cords.”

  White Spots On Teeth-Enamel Hypoplasia

• “Meconium aspiration in infants - a prospective study.”

  7. REFERENCES

• “Meconium, a green or brown fluid, is seen after the bag of water breaks”

  Chapter 13

• “Mecaptera: = Mecoptera, q.v. Meconium: the substance excreted by certain metabolic insects soon after their emergence from the chrysalis or pupa.”

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

• “Page 168 their bowels called by phisicians Meconium.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “(Meconium is the baby's first bowel movement; its presence in the amniotic fluid can be dangerous, though it's not uncommon.)”

  Chicago Reader

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