As shown in Table 3, thirty (78.9%) of the 38 cases had fetus with APGAR scores less than 8 at the first minute while the control group had only 28 (36.8%) cases. For APGAR at fifth minute, 15 (39.5%) cases of umbilical cord prolapse had scores below 8 while in the control group only 8 (10.5%) had scores below 8.