anyone know about or have experience w/ leaving cord to pulsate?

CeltiCutie

Interested in this... just wondering if anyone did it w/ their LO's or did research on it.

Soyager

We did it. The doc at the hospital was accommodating to our birth-center birth plans. DH watched the placenta pulsing and watched it stop, which I think is awesome.

We also saved my placenta for encapsulation, so long as you're researching things... 

Hippinski

We did this with ds.  Here is an article and FB page w/ the lots of info:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100524111728.htm

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home&nctrct=1238704053628#!/delayedcordclamping?ref=ts

Jennicap

We also did this, it took about 5 mins or so and it was very cool to have that time just for us!

Soyager

I love that there is a FB page for everything lol

mrsjjd

We did, but we had a homebirth, so there was no doctor rushing us..

ab&jim

We did it. It lasted a few minutes I guess. Time was kind of irrelevant/surreal at that point. She was on my tummy and crying while they wiped her down. I was just holding her and letting her pee on me. The midwife cut the cord after it stopped pulsing as per our wishes in our birth plan.

roundtheworldgirl

We did it, but it was also standard procedure for our midwifery practice, so we didn't have to tell them or anything.  I was so out of it by the time DD arrived that I don't even remember the cord being cut, though.

lytedark

we planned to, and it's standard practice with the midwives i went to, but we weren't able to because of meconium in the amniotic fluid and dd not crying when she came out and needing deep suction from the NICU team.  :-(  dh wasn't able to cut the cord either.  i was disappointed but obviously you have to go with it when things come up.  :-)

lesalia217

it was part of my plan, but I had to be taken to a hospital and had a c/s

-so my plan went down the crapper

nikll34

That was my plan. I wanted DS to lay on my chest right after he came out with cord still attached, but things went differently. His heart rate was dropped for 25 minutes and wasn't breathing. So he was rushed away across the room.

hamilton.ja

We did it with E. I didn't do too much research just knew I didn't want to collect the cord blood so I might as well let E have it if the situation allowed. She was fine and they had no qualms letting it finish pulsating. The midwife told us when it had stopped after I delivered the placenta and then set it up for DH to cut the cord. I didn't even really notice that any time had elapsed without it cut. It was pretty quick.