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Delayed Cord Clamping

KasiboylesKasiboyles member
in July 2013 Moms
Anyone else considering delayed cord clamping? Asked my doc today and she looked at me like I had 3 heads...
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Re: Delayed Cord Clamping

  • Aurora317Aurora317
    It's the standard of care at my hospital, I brought it up with my OB a month ago and he was very "oh, of course!" about it, which was a pleasant surprise. I have some good links to studies mentioned in previous discussions saved on my laptop, I'll check back tomorrow and post them if someone else doesn't get to it first. The WHO recommends it, as long as there is no immediate medical intervention needed there really aren't any good reasons to NOT delay clamping, at least until it stops pulsing.
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    I'm going to ask about it at my appointment today, see where that takes me:)  Also, I have to remember to ask for a prescription for my tdap shot b/c no pharmacy will give it to me without one, ridiculous.
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  • JCWhiteyJCWhitey member
    Yeah... your doctor needs to update their education on this subject.  It's standard practice at all four of the hospitals that I've looked into delivering at.

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  • knottie92178cc45b4fcceaknottie92178cc45b4fccea member
    It is also standard of practice for my ob!
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  • yellowapplesyellowapples member

    Standard practice at my midwife practice. I agree with PP it's probably a good idea to put it in the birth plan to be safe. It's surprising your doc didn't know about that. Kind of lame.

    I got that look when I asked early on in the pregnancy if I could take any brand of Omega 3 or needed a special one. It's like hellooooooo, there's tons of research/info out there on the benefits of Omega 3 during pregnancy for both mom & baby. I wanted to call her a big dummy but held back.


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  • Aurora317Aurora317

    Here are those articles I mentioned earlier. I saved them so I could print them out and bring them with me as back-up for my inquiry, but thankfully did not need them. The first two are peer reviewed journal articles, the third is a blog post, but it's written as though it were a scholarly article, and she cites multiple peer reviewed journals, so you can get more links from it if need be. Good luck!

     From the World Health Organization:

    https://apps.who.int/rhl/pregnancy_childbirth/childbirth/3rd_stage/cd004074_abalose_com/en/

     From the British Medical Journal:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217058/

    Scientific blog post with good articles cited:

    https://scienceofmom.com/2012/10/11/why-consider-delayed-cord-clamping/

    (Sorry not clicky, Google Chrome browser does not play well with The Bump.) 

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