Re: Sheriff Swanson! 'Greentown's miracle baby' is slipping...

From: Jenrose (jenrose_at_nospamjenrose.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:50:00 -0700

"Cathy Weeks" <kathyspam@weeksfamily.net> wrote in message
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> "Jenrose" <jenrose@nospamjenrose.com> wrote in message
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> > > We had planned to have a delayed cord cutting, but my midwives
> > > recommended against it since I am RH- and my husband is RH+ (and our
> > > daughter is also +).
> >
> > All the more reason to leave the cord alone!
>
> They didn't do an early cord cutting - it was cut more than 5 minutes
> after her birth, though I don't have an exact time. But my
> understanding is that delayed cutting can cause problems in our case
> because it increases the likelihood of our blood mixing,

Nonsense.

Clamping the cord at all stops the placenta from pumping the blood *away*
from your body...where's it going to go? Clamp it, and you've got a bunch of
baby blood unable to flow away from the placenta.

Any messing with the placenta (tugging, pulling at the cord, vigorous
massage before it's delivered) is more likely to cause problems than just
leaving it alone. I believe Michel Odent talks about cord clamping in his
book Birth Reborn--his observation was that only the baby's side should ever
be clamped, that the maternal side should be allowed to drain freely if the
cord was being cut promptly, because clamping the maternal side made the
placenta take longer to deliver.

To reduce risks of blood mixing, I believe the ideal is to leave it all
alone and let the placenta deliver with minimal interference.

Jenrose

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