J Midwifery Womens Health. 2009;5(4):321-326. Immediate cord clamping is often included as part of active management of the third stage of labor. Although it is now well known that active ...

Those benefits, researchers say, likely have to do with iron. Waiting a few minutes before clamping the umbilical cord allows more iron-rich blood from the placenta to reach the newborn.

When to “clamp” and or cut one of the most prominent fixtures associated with childbirth, the umbilical cord, has been at the center of an international cord-cutting clash for decades.

It’s not really about the aesthetics though, the traditional plastic clamp is very hard ... donned one of the popular hand knitted umbilical cord clamps after birth. Picture: Emma Jean ...

A couple of extra minutes attached to the umbilical cord at birth may translate ... The results showed no differences in IQ. Delaying the clamping of the cord allows more blood to transfer from ...

Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors ...

A new study shows that waiting to clamp the umbilical cord after infants are born offers lasting health benefits. Compared with infants who had clamping of the umbilical cord within a minute after ...

When to “clamp” and or cut one of the most prominent fixtures associated with childbirth, the umbilical cord, has been at the center of an international cord-cutting clash for decades.

It’s not really about the aesthetics though, the traditional plastic clamp is very hard ... donned one of the popular hand knitted umbilical cord clamps after birth. Picture: Emma Jean ...