Abstract
The correlation of perinatal experience with developmental results in the growing child provides a much more sensitive evaluation of obstetric practices than perinatal mortality studies. This is a retrospective study, made in conjunction with an on-going prospective study, involving delivery of 2,383 infants and a 9 year follow-up of 1,698. Lorge-Thorndike intelligence tests, arithmetic achievement levels, grades repeated in school, and other means of evaluating development were used. Several statistically significant correlations were established. Advanced age of the mother, breech presentation, premature rupture of the membranes, and prematurity were all found to have a statistically significant deleterious effect. Breech presentation produced such a high percentage of poor developmental results that further analysis in the prospective study and further research are essential.
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