A newborn nurse is called to attend a delivery of a G2 T0 P1 A0 L1 patient at 10cm/100%/+4 station. The mother has had minimal prenatal care during this pregnancy and thinks she is 38 weeks gestation. The Labor and Delivery nurse states the only significant issues during labor are: Spontaneous Rupture of Membranes (SROM) 19 hours ago, clear. Vital signs are stable. Required augmentation with Pitocin for the past 10 hours. The patient experienced a 20-minute episode of uterine tachysystole 2 hours ago. Pitocin was turned off, the patient was turned, an intravenous bolus was given, and oxygen was started, and the uterine tachysystole resolved. The Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) during that time had a prolonged deceleration lasting 4 minutes but returned to the baseline of 140 with intrauterine resuscitative measures. The FHR is currently 145, with moderate variability, accelerations, and early decelerations present. The infant is transported to the nursery for Transitory Tachypnea of the Newborn (TTN). You explain to the patient that TTN is thought to occur as a result of: