Penny Simkin on Delayed Cord Clamping
Penny Simkin demonstrates why the baby’s umbilical cord should not be routinely clamped and cut immediately following birth
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Penny Simkin demonstrates why the baby’s umbilical cord should not be routinely clamped and cut immediately following birth
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thank you for this upload, I had not heard of dcc until about 10mins ago, but I definitely will be doing it when? I have children.
Thanks for? this!!!
Thank you very much.?
Very interesting! This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of DCC but she explains everything so well and it’s so nice to have this info all in none place rather than searching around online for it. I think I’m in trouble when my hubby and I do start? a family because I’m learning so much and, with all of the medical intervention/timed births hospitals do nowadays, it might be hard to find a doctor/midwife/etc. that? feels the same way I do about giving birth and providing care.
What a sympathetic? lady!
I’m glad I now know why this is? important.
@crunchymommy1973 and PSfromPenny, That’s so funny. When we went to the hospital (after our home birth) the doctors blamed baby’s problems breathing on “sticky blood” from her being below my placenta for a minute or two, connected, while I was kneeling, before the cord was cut. By the way, they didn’t care to ask where she? was the first ten minutes….that was on my chest, in the bathtub. Stupid doctors.
@triciam510 you can even request a lotus birth. there is nothing to stop you having dcc with a c section.?
If having a csection, is delayed cord clamping reasonable? to request?
If having a csection, is delayed cord clamping reasonable to? request?
@crunchymommy1973 Many doctors still think that if the baby is on the mother’s abdomen, blood shifts from the baby back into the placenta. They are mistaken. Long ago, Yao and Lind (Lancet, Sept. 6, 1969), found no differences in the amount of blood in the placenta in the first 3 minutes when the baby was? held 40, 20, or 10 cm. below the mother’s vaginal opening or at 0 or 10 cm above it, which is the level of the mother’s belly or chest if she’s lying down.
Also seems to me the baby would be more likely to develop? anemia if he’s not getting all the blood he should be.
Nice to see the demo of what really? happens after the birth of the baby. This visual should help families see the importance of the baby getting all their blood volume. Gerri
SGC Mermaid’s channel hosts weekly video footage of infant behaviors. Cord cutting for her birth was delayed for 6 hours since her mother prefers the cord to look more lifeless and dried up rather than fleshy, alive, spongy, when she makes the cut. ?
Thank you so much for posting this? most helpful video! Bravo.
Great video, and I’m going? to share this! One question for Penny – What about doctors who insist that the baby must be held at or below the level of the placenta while the cord remains intact, rather than placing the baby on mother’s chest?
Amazing. Sharing widely. ?
wonderful!
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