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A surprising study recently surfaced in the British Medical Journal. A randomized trial was designed to determine if giving a standard maternal dose of steroids (two injections of 12 mg of betamethasone separated by 24 hours) would decrease the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants whose mothers were to have elective Cesarean sections.

Antenatal Betamethasone and Incidence of Neonatal Respiratory Distress After Elective Cesarean Section