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This makes lots of sense

This makes lots of sense

This starting to make sense to me.

Are Doctors Causing Infant Brain Damage by Clamping the Umbilical Cord Prematurely?
Newborn lungs exist in a "compacted state" suitable for the womb. When the infant is born, the placenta and cord pulse for up to 20 minutes, delivering a burst of blood volume to the infant's system. This blood burst is just what is needed for the lungs of the newborn to expand.

Unfortunately, many hospitals and doctors don't understand the mechanics of this and are engaging in early umbilical cord clamping -- often within one minute of birth.

Without the burst of blood from the placenta, the infant suffers a drop in blood pressure as its lungs fail to open as they should, creating a chain reaction of effects that can include brain damage and lung damage. Immediate cord clamping can cause hypotension, hypovolemia and infant anemia, resulting in cognitive deficits. Some have even theorized that the rise in autism could be linked at least in part to early cord clamping.

If every woman would ask the doctors to wait before they clamp the cord??? it would reduce some troubles for sure.
True very true.
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thats intresting! Where did you get this info? I am very intrested!
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I subscribe to many different websites and now I don't remember where this one came from.
Please try to Google the subject and I am sure you will get many different websites to read from.
I also posted on the forum  pregnancies 35+  and there are ladies who heard about this and one said that her doctor told her same. So it is not a hoax.
Take care, Mia.
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I agree, unless the circumstance calls for cutting the cord immediately (in an emergency), that it should not be cut for some time. My midwife has told me this and I found it very interesting! When my son was born he was immediately place on me and left there for quite a while. I can't seem to remember the time frame right now maybe 5-10 min.? It would have been longer, but I started bleeding pretty bad and my midwife needed to stop it quickly. I gave birth in a birthing center, so it was a more laxed environment and I was able to make decisions in certain situations. Anyway, I do believe it is best for baby to let the blood pulse through for some time after birth.
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