Hae anyone heard about this?

[mia12366]

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.

[Kat_624]

Wow...I never heard of the cord clamping thing, that's a little scary.  My kids were all c-sections and I'm pretty sure they were clamped right away.  They seem okay, but I guess I now I have something new to worry about...

Thanks for posting this info.

[Heather3418]

I am in total agreement with you.  The cord is clamped too quickly.  Now if the baby needs immediate attention from the neonatologists, I can understand being in a hurry to get the baby under the warmer and oxygenated.  But if the baby is doing fine, the baby should be placed on the mother's stomach, while the doctor's wait for the cord to stop pulsating.  The placenta will normally not detach from the uterus anyway, until there is no blood flow going through it.  There is a reason for this...it's still providing the baby with oxygen and blood.

I also have another concern, when it comes to delivering the babies.  I don't think that doctor's should be pulling so hard on the neck of the emerging baby, when there is no need to rush the birth.  I wonder how many of us that are delivered that way, can blame neck problems or possibly future headaches on such a trauma at birth?  The baby should be allowed to come out gradually, as Mother Nature intended.

And this pushing thing of three times during one contraction.  It makes the mother hold her breath, thereby not providing the baby with oxygen to the placenta as the baby emerges.  When the mother feels like pushing, she should be allowed to do so and for as long as she feels the urge to push.  Whatever started this count to 10 stuff, is beyond me.  It's exhausts the mother...period.

I better stop while I am ahead.  I am so glad you posted about the umbilical cord.  It's a very valid point.

Heather
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