| Habitual snoring in the mother was also associated with growth retardation of the fetus and a low Apgar score for the infant. |
| Infant factors available for analysis were presentation, multiple birth, gestational age, birth weight, birthweight percentile, and Apgar score at five minutes. |
| Apgar score less than seven at five minutes. |
| The Apgar score was based on heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability, and skin color. |
| Indeed, we need an Apgar score for everyone who encounters medicine: the psychiatry patient, the patient on the hospital ward, the person going through an operation, and the mother in childbirth. |
| So when we heard the piercing cry of our newborn and were told the baby had a high Apgar score, we believed we had successfully skirted the perils of pregnancy. |
