Typically, at the moment a full-term baby is born, the child's lungs are

A. fully inflated due to practice respiratory movements in the womb.
B. not fully inflated, and will not inflate fully for ten days, when surfactant production begins.
C. not fully inflated, but they will inflate within about ten seconds.


Answer: C

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