DON'T cut umbilical cords
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My Baby was born at home accidentally. I chose not to cut the cord. The Baby came out the placenta refused to. I let it STAY in there and did not pull it or anything. Got the hospital with Baby still attached. Doctor said I did the right thing. If I didn't do what I did I could have hemorrhaged to death. DO NOT EVER PULL OR TUG ON THE UMBILICAL CORD. You can cause hemorrhaging that can be life threatening or even fatal.
I knew all this with my second and specifically requested repeatedly to wait until the cord stopped pulsing and not pull the cord.. they said it would be fine but when it came to the birth the dr said "oh I'm sorry we dont do that, beside after about 30s most of the blood is out anyway" and cut and pulled... I felt a ripping then Pop... I almost hemorrhaged to death, lost 60% of my blood before he got it stopped.😮 I was mad as heck at him, hubby pointed out at least he was a good enough dr to stop the bleeding and save you!😂
@@rileydruley3993 that is an idiot doctor that could have killed you! I'm sorry you had to go through that. Glad you made it through! It's sad and scary when doctors don't know the BASICS in their profession
@@rileydruley3993 omg I'm so angry for you!
@@stephanielu7694 maybe he was just a doctor, but not a maternity doctor? My mom didn't make it to her usual delivery doctor when she had me, and the doctor did not know what the fuck he was doing. Didn't suction me properly, despite my dad telling him to; tok me off to who knows where for five fucking hours; told my mom I had a whole in my heart and they had to do surgery, I probably wouldn't live a year. I was her second kid, and needless to say, she was perfectly traumatized :)
Yes pulling can completely damage your insides! I wish these things were taught in school.
When mine was born, they put him on my chest and left him there without cutting the cord until it had finished pulsing. And they asked my husband to breathe onto his face and after he did, baby took his own first breath. It was magical, as if my husband breathed life into him☺️
Baby stayed with me for about an h, before they asked if they can take him to the corner of the room to measure and weight him. They never took him out of the room for my whole hospital stay, which was two nights. Always were super respectful. So grateful to all the midwives who helped me and made sure I had a very peaceful and even beautiful delivery.
wow. Beautiful. From what I've heard, most women don't have an experience like this.
When the cord is white. It means the baby got 80% of its blood and the risk of bleeding to death is lowest.
sounds like a great experience! what country are you from?
@@se7vin77 Germany! It was actually a great experience yes! I mean I wouldn't want to repeat it constantly, but I also wouldn't want to run marathons weekly lol
@@ellunaguma7789 haha yeah i understand - and I've heard good things about the healthcare in germany! your account seemed too good to be american so I just had to ask haha. greetings from canada!
Also related: knew someone who had an unplanned home birth. Paramedics cut the cord. After they had already cut the cord, she was informed that in their department, once the cord was cut, baby was a separate patient, and since you can't transport more than one patient per ambulance, they had to call a separate ambulance and she couldn't ride to the hospital with her baby. They had to go in separate ambulances. She was so miffed, because, as she said, "If you'd told me that, I obviously would have declined cord cutting until we got to the hospital."
Man what a scam. One ambulance is already so expensive. Sounds like they didn’t tell her to get an easy cash grab
GOOD OL AMERICA AND ITS LOVE OF GREED
@@BreakofDawn
I doubt it. The paramedics aren't exactly getting commissions; there would be no reason at all for them to intentionally act in a way to charge someone extra money. That doesn't make sense to me.
It just think they were going off of odd training/rules, or they didn't really think things through until it was too late.
@@PartnershipsForYou
What. Who is greedy in this scenario..?
@@Crackpot_Astronaut the hospital
When I was pregnant with my daughter I was terrified of giving birth at the side of the road as I laboured quickly with my first and I had to have my second in a hospital further away. I was told by my midwife that if you go into labour and can't make it to the hospital and you ring 999 (UK emergency services number) they will advise to wrap something around the cord to stop the blood flow, and she'd had reports of people wrapping phone chargers around the cord 😳 She told me that if I was advised to do this to ignore it, delayed cord clamping is a thing and it's better to leave it be until it can be cut in a sterile way rather than risk infection! Luckily (?) I ended up needing a post dates induction in hospital anyway so no cords or phone chargers were harmed 😂
wild stories!!
I'm glad you and your babies are alright and also that cords and phone chargers are safe and sound 😂😂
I was a 999 calltaker and this is true, we do say to tie off the cord. The thinking is you're ringing 999, it's an emergency, if something happens to mum or baby and we need to go into CPR it's better that you're not attached. Of course sometimes babies come unexpectedly but most childbirth calls we get are medical emergencies, preterm, haemmorrhage etc. I've delivered five babies over the phone and all needed emergency treatment.
In some cultures it is the norm to leave the umbilical cord and placenta attached until they fall off naturally.
In the hospital I gave birth in, they don’t do anything until all the blood has returned to the baby and the cord is white - unless it’s an emergency.
@Jenny H that's fascinating. May I ask which country?
my grandmother gave birth to my father by the roadside (in the 70's). While she was trying to carry about 20 kilos of wood on her back, she suddenly came into labor on the side of the road, stopped and gave birth to my father, took him in her arms and went home like that. lol it was crazy times.
@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo bro calm down. I am middle eastern, at that time in my country there wasn't electricity. my people were really suffering, so yeah definitely it was crazy and painful times. I am glad those times over
My grandpa was similar too. Came to the world in a field lol didn’t have a birth certificate either until school age.
@@umaywashere its always priveleged westerners saying shit like this
@@YouDontKnowAsMuchAsYouThinkUDo
Just because it was common doesn't mean it wasnt crazy. The amount of suffering our ancestors went through to get us here is absolutely immense, and we should be grateful every day for that. Rather than btching about stuff on your phone.
@@otaku3OBSESSION do you hear yourself? I live in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I do not have electricity. I'm in the city visiting a friend using their internet.
My life consists of growing and hunting my food. I bathe, cook and heat my home via wood stove. I have to walk 30 km just to get to the nearest cell phone reception.
SO WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! For someone who's bitching online via *their cell phone* ...you might want to take a long hard look in the mirror before you go preaching to others, you idiot 🙄🤦♀️
I said it before and I'll say it again. There is nothing crazy about having babies on the living room table or at the side of the road.You people, your lifestyle AND YOUR ENTITLED AUDACITY IS OFF THE CHARTS 👀
You are crazy. Your words are crazy. Your society is crazy...and your stupid, redundant, hypocritical comments just proved it firsthand. 🙄🤦♀️
This is really interesting. I always thought people were supposed to cut the cord right away, because that's what you see in the movies and stuff, and the one time I was there when a friend gave birth, that's what the doctor did. I have a lot of experience with livestock giving birth, mostly horses and goats. The vet will always tell you, try to keep mom lying down for a while after baby comes out. Let the cord pulse until it completely stops, then you can let mom chew it through and get up. It is preferred for mom to chew it as opposed to cutting, so the end is frayed. This helps get the iodine wash in there better and helps it to dry up faster. I always thought it seemed like a good practice for livestock, and it made me wonder why you always see the cord cut super fast with humans.
It was medical standard to cut the cord immediately until quite recently, from what I understand. Not sure where or why that practice started, but we've since learned better and the standard medical practice has changed to keep the cord uncut for longer. But anyways, that's why you've seen so much of it! We did for a long time, then we smartened up lol
Like above said it used to be standard practice. When I had my daughter a little over 11 years ago the medical staff looked at me like I was crazy when I asked for delayed cord clamping and cutting. The doctor told me I could bleed out and die if the placenta detached before the cord was cut to talk me out of it. It's changed since then where they now recommend to delay it.
I have no idea why they used to cut the cord so quickly. Mostly for doctor convenience, I'm pretty sure. But nowadays most birth practitioners know better. It's best to let the cord completely stop pulsing before cutting it, so baby gets every last drop of that cord blood and the benefit of that working placenta as long as possible. There can be exceptions, though, such as when the baby needs some kind of immediate care that can't be done right there. My last baby had a very short cord and I couldn't nurse her until we cut the cord (and she was clearly looking to nurse right away, and the afterbirth didn't come for a good 45 minutes after birth), so we cut her cord at about 10-12 minutes. Which was also when the midwife arrived, right on time. :)
That’s the baby’s blood in the placenta. When it’s cut they lose son of their blood. Most standard labor practices are very anti-science and dangerous to mothers and babies.
@@Kleines97 what do think happened before doctors or scissors?
The amount of times that I’ve watched medical dramas and the 10 month old comes out of the womb with the cord cut and everything 😂😂
Well my first baby was a 8lb 15 oz and he looked much older than he actually was as a baby and was also 30 inches tall by the time he was one year old.
Skin to skin (and breastfeeding if that is your preference) is also beneficial for the person who just gave birth! It will release oxytocin. Oxytocin will not only help with bonding but it is needed for the uterus to push out the placenta and afterwards lowering the risk of heavy bleeding.
Breastfeeding shouldn't be a preference. It provides not just nutrients but immunity for a baby. Only in situations where the mother is on drugs or a disease should Breastfeeding be not mandatory. Don't have a baby if you don't want to breastfeed.
Yes breastfeeding is preferred for many very good reasons but some women struggle to produce milk, some babies refuse to latch. There are always exceptions even if the mother does want to breastfeed sometimes they can't if they want their baby to be fully fed.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme. My kid couldn’t breast feed because of cleft lip, take your mandatory comment and try to remember there are a variety of situations to deal with. And for having formula worked out well, straight As, is in orchestra and band, and excels in lacrosse. Doesn’t even get sick a lot either, very good immune system….yet I know some breast fed kids with asthma, sick a lot, etc.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeThere are so many situations in which a mother can’t breastfeed though?Its very close minded to think that way many physically and mentally can’t do it anymore than a few months before they have to switch to formula or getting donated milk if possible, with PPD and D-MER being common reasons. The ability or desire to breastfeed shouldn’t determine after a person has a child or not.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme To be blunt, your comment is stupid. Some mothers can't produce enough milk or milk at all and yes, others don't want to for whatever reasons (usually trauma, especially after birth). Unless you get the formula from brands like bloody Nestle, it's not going to hurt your baby. And I think they're talking about the time right after birth. Like right after the first skin to skin contact and a lot of mothers are too affected by the aftermath of the birth to breastfeed at that moment.
This happened to me. I “caught” her (not sure how to phrase it lol).
The terror was overwhelming. All I could do was laser focus on her chest, making sure that she kept breathing until the paramedics arrived. I wish I had been told this before, or just been prepared in any way at all.
She a healthy 3 year old :) The PTSD is the gift that keeps on giving tho
I am so sorry no one shared information with you in advance.
That PTSD is real, and reflects our society's lack of support and knowledge, not anything that you did wrong.
You are not alone in this experience, many of my clients have similar stories and wish they had known about doulas, emergency birth kits, and more thorough childbirth education.
I hope you have support processing what happened!
Anyone at that end has the job of playing "catch".
Birth is not the best time for your kid to try bunjie jumping
That little one is going to scare the hell out of you for the rest of her life!
I have a theory people’s births say a lot about the rest of their lives. Bungee jumping baby? Will probably keep scaring you. Me- I rolled over & took a nap in the middle of everything. It fits.
@@TheKrispyfort But I was at both ends 😂 lol
@@THandP_org Thank you for your kind words. But no. Things escalated. Are escalating maybe. I don’t remember what feeling ok feels like, and I can’t imagine ever feeling ok again
I did not cry at all during the duration of my labor (yes,I got the epi). The moment my baby was laid on my chest, I started sobbing. There was this out of this world, overwhelming, and beautiful feeling that took over my entire body.
My best friend had a baby who ended up having a blood clot in the cord AND placenta infection that went unnoticed. She was told her daughter would have been a still birth if they got her out any later. I’m not sure if the hospital made a grave mistake, but she was in labor for 72 hours, after being induced the first day, with very little progress and they refused the option of a c section. They instead told her to ignore the urge to push for over a day and the doctor rarely checked in on her. The baby came out in distress and not breathing. After everything was said and done, the hospital LIED to her OB and said the birth had no complications. Her OB had no idea the baby had to be resuscitated, or about the infection or blood clot, until my friend told her at the 6-week follow up. With all of that said, and while I know this is a very rare instance, I have no idea what kind of proper measure would be with the placenta like that. I’d love to hear you talk about placenta blood clots and infections. With all of that said, there’s still so much confusion about the situation and we have little understanding regarding the cord blood clot and placenta infection despite the horrible situation my friend endured. How do these horrible situations come about? Her and the baby and healthy and okay now.
How long ago was this?
RoseMary Kennedy, sister to JFK, had a world of issues. I believe her issues started when she was being born, the nurses kept telling her mom (Rose) to keep her legs closed. There HAD to be a doctor there if a Kennedy was being born.
It ends with a lobotomy, but that’s another story.
I suggest she and her obgyn go over what her chart says so she can explain what happened to her. Her situation is too complicated to go into hee.
My mommas mostly choose traditional cord care: don't cut until the cord is no longer pulsing!
One of my mommas chose a full lotus birth, and her great-grandmother was a huge resource in learning new cultural competency.
Unless there's a true emergency, all my mommas have baby skin2skin and watch their baby "belly crawl" to that first latch.
75% of my mommas are still breastfeeding/chestfeeding at 2 years of age, and I am now attending third generation births (granddaughters of some of my initial clients).
Learning the less we muck around with birth, the fewer trauma responses interfere with the next generation's labor and delivery experiences.
Have a great day!
Can you elaborate on the cultural competency part?
@@kyetes.866 I have mostly worked in rural areas with Indigenous communities, or in the city with international communities... not the typical experience.
I took the university classes on cultural competency, which at least taught me how to be polite, respectful, and acknowledge what I don't know in a way to foster relationship building.
I learned far more about how to customize my practice for each community (and the individuals in each community) from the grandmothers and Aunties who traditionally attend births everywhere except Eurocentric birthing environments.
Some cultures sequester the new dyad for 40 days. Some cultures utilize breastfeeding and elimination communication at the 14 & 40 day marks to determine if baby is safe with mom.
Some have specific requirements around the ritual of caring for the placenta: not to cut the cord at all/treat the placenta as part of the baby/bury the placenta or eat the placenta.
Some believe a baby should be held for the first year and never put down until the first birthday.
All the cultural differences I have learned, are rooted in environmental safety for the dyad, based on historically available resources.
When I am allowed to share information I have learned, it has benefited all of my mommas.
@@THandP_org That's super cool & it's great to see that you're willing to learn and adapt, especially given the (understandable) mistrust that
those communities have for Western medical/medical-adjacent professionals. I'm a first gen immigrant and I remember my paternal grandmother attending all of my mother's births (obviously don't remember mine lol but she was there) although I was too young to inherit our cultural practices around this experience.
Breast feeding until 2 years old? Wouldnt they have teeth by then and make your nipples bleed? That just makes me cringe? What is the reason they do this? Why not give them solid food? How does that work in public when a 2 year old is pulling your shirt down?
@@ava4689 a two year old child would have access to both solid food and breastmilk, for example some mums keep it for just naptime or bedtime. And yes they do have teeth but they can understand not to bite at that age.
I just love how she says "Baby" like it's the baby's name 😂❤️
That's what most people say if they don't know the gender lol
Your not very old are you? People do that all the time. Its alot nicer than calling the baby an "it" until the gender is revealed.
@Kelsey 23 I always hear people say "the baby" never "baby" tbh
@@kelsey2333 Not very old? That's pretty condescending. Not all of MDJs followers are American, and custom to that way of use of the word "baby".
@@kelsey2333 Btw, it's "You're not very old, are you?" Just let me know if you need anymore English lessons from a foreigner 😅
Even skin to skin and covered, not dried off and not cutting the cord. A clean finger to clear the mouth and a gentle rubbing with whatever cover. No slapping. No cutting.
I have seen medical personnel thump the feet of a lethargic baby.
Don’t cut the cord in an emergency delivery like a car. I will hopefully not need this information
Don’t cut the cord until it’s white, even in a hospital (unless it’s an emergency). It’s your baby’s blood in that cord!
Thank you for saying "probably" because I have had rbc antibodies in 2 of my pregnancies and any benefit that might come from delayed clamping would not outweigh the effects it would have on my baby. When your blood attacks your baby's blood, it's definitely not better.
Why didn't you get injection to prevent this? You're VERY lucky that you were able to give birth without your baby dying, because if you don't get those injections it'll attack the baby's blood as you said, And it could kill them in utero. I don't know why you didn't mention to your OB the blood type negative interaction.
"If you happen to be somewhere delivering a baby..." sure! At least twice a week!😉🤣
Its possible though
@@EstherHulst-Artist "I Didn't Know I was Praganangant" xD Lord help those poor idiots
I remember Doctor Jones saying something like this in one of the "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" reaction videos.
Quite a lot..
the one where the paramedic nyoomed off with baby after they got to the dock? That's the one that comes to mind
@@StoicVeR I think you just created my new favorite word... nyoomed
When my daughter was born, she came out very blue and wasn't crying or moving. The OB told me that I needed to cut the cord RIGHT NOW or the baby could die. So I cut the cord, the whisked her over to the little warming thing they had, they did CPR on her, and she started crying.
Over the next 3 days, the lactation consultants were pushing super hard for the Hamburger and Shove Her On method of feeding. When that wasn't working the way they wanted, they started saying things like "you're not producing enough" and "formula is better than milk".
My wife and I agreed that we would never go back to that OB or hospital for anything pregnancy related
I delivered my baby a month ago at home without the midwife, my husband caught our girl 💕 by the time the midwife arrived half an hour later she was latched on feeding, didn’t cut the cord til an hour after she was born, and even then this was only at my request so I could get into a better position to birth the placenta ❤
In our country, there are actually healthcare professionals that say that a newborn can bleed out into the placenta if they are placed above it and are scaring mothers to have the cord cut as soon as possible otherwise they will not get the baby. There are others debunking it, but with very limited influence on the "main narrative". (I know there are conditions with premature babies when this problem is real, but that still doesn't apply for most of them, not even for full-term newborns).
That's terrifying!!! Makes absolutely no sense... Which country if I may ask? In my home country (Brazil), there are also all sorts of absurdity in obgyn field
@@juliaellertsouza3577 Czech Republic. We have very good level of prenatal and neonatal care in general, but these dinosaurs of ob-gyn are still very loud.
They also perform a thing called "Kristeller expression/procedure/maneuver" that is non lege artis, but it's still used, even though it can have very bad results for either mother or child (or both). It's a procedure when they use force to push on the uterine fundus during final stage of birth either by hand or both or forearm or they use rolled bed sheet. They don't include this procedure into labour documentation when it's done, so it's then hard to prove it was used and that it caused the harm that mother or child may have after the delivery.
We have one very infamous case when this pressure was used and documented by video! on mother that had contradictions to any kind of pressure, the child is very harmed and it still has no end after 13 years of court processes, because one of the major obstacles here in our country is, that the expert witnesses are all "old-school" and from the same professional organization, so there is no independent expert witness available and having one from abroad is very expensive, esp. for this particular family that has already debts because of the state of their child (the mother, who had also health issues, had to stay at home taking care about the child, while the care of seriously handicapped child is not cheap, even though we have a general health insurance and children are said to have everything for "free").
Sorry, it's long, because it bothers me so much :D
Why the hell would they bleed out if something they've been attached to since their existence *isn't* cut? I have about as much medical experience as a potato but that just seems like an obvious logical fallacy?
@@_lil_lil it's due to gravity, of course :D To be fair, there are cases of Infant-to-Placenta Hemorrhage after birth, but that's so rare, even the article about that topic uses ONE example...
Also even if you don't clamp the umb. cord, there is a funny thing called wharton jelly that forms a blockade inside the cord once it's outside the womb in lower temperature (very similar way how a common jelly solidifies in a fridge).
I was yelling at the TV screen a few weeks ago when I watched a baby be born. I was like, what are you doing? Don't cut the umbilical cord! And when she didn't skin to skin or even wrap the baby, I stormed out of the room. 😅 I have you to thank for that.
Was it The Last of Us? I was low key hoping that Mama Dr Jones would react to that scene from The Last of Us 😂
@@leahb6013 Totally gotta be Last of Us! I freaked out about the cord cutting too until my husband realized she probably did it so fast because she had been bit and hoped the baby wouldn't get infected 🤔
Either way, I was totally thinking of MDJ the whole time lol
@@CaitsFavoriteColors That's a really good point! Now I REALLY want to hear a gyno chime in about it lmao
@CaitsFavoriteColors That's exactly why she did it! You can tell because she later lies to Marlene saying that she "cut it before she was bit" because Anne knew that they'd kill her and the kid otherwise. She was hoping that it wasn't too late-- so definitely an emergency measure. Plus, I figure she wasn't getting much gyno or midwife advice 6 years into a zombie apocalypse 😅
@@CaitsFavoriteColorsyeah it's theorised that Ellie is immune because of this quick cut of the umbilical cord or the diffusion bite to baby
I’m partially the reason in the UK why NHS clamping procedures are timed. There was a study done of my birth because I wasn’t clamped for 3 hours and had Polycythemia as a result and nearly died. It’s not an ‘immediate’ thought to clamp the cord but equally it’s up there on the list of important things to do if you don’t want your baby to be disabled lol
Hi mama Dr. Jones like you I had twins! They're beautiful and thriving two year olds now. I did delayed cord clamping with all five except twin A. The midwife told me that after about a minute we should clamp the cord so that the body remembers it still needs to deliver baby B. Didn't know if you heard this theory.
I gave birth on the side of the road trying to get back to the hospital after being told I was not in labor 3 hours earlier. Hubby pulled over and opened the door just in time. He asked if I was ok, 👌 wrapped her in an old windbreaker, the only thing in the car. He jumped back in the driver's seat and we continued on to the hospital. No cord cutting. Just hauled ass. Nurse came out and tried to take her and I had to say we were still connected. She was very surprised.
Only Ellie's birth in TLOU is the emergency cord cutting justified.
I was just thinking the same thing 😂
Me secretly hoping I will be somewhere delivering a baby.
😂😂😂😂 girl same ! 🥲🥲😍💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 we can do it !!!!
Don't forget to pick up some wipes while your out.
Look into becoming a doula
Amazing advice, a lot of this is EXACTLY what they teach in EMT school! If you happen to be suctioning out a baby’s airway, remember to start with the mouth then do the nose simply because if that triggers the baby to start breathing and you’re already suctioning the mouth, everything in the nose is gonna have to pass by the mouth anyway.
Additionally, after baby is breathing, warm, and dry (and pulse is above 100, you can check using the GIANT PULSATING CORD, if not, bag valve mask baby until it is) you can have mom try to breastfeed it as this stimulates the mom’s uterus to start shutting down and clamping down, stopping bleeding and getting ready to get rid of the placenta. Gently massaging mom’s pelvic region can also help do the same thing. These measures aren’t required as much as they are helpful for trying to stop the mother from continuing to bleed after delivery.
Ugh! Thank you!!! Finally. I hate seeing people freaking out about cutting the cord asap. I think tv dramas are mostly to blame. They are better off staying attached.
@mamadrjones can you please talk about quick labors and being "stunned" to life please. my labor was 6 mins, my first was only 30 mins.
Good goddamn, that sounds like someone wished upon a monkey's paw for fast labor!
And here I am thinking I was quick with 45 mins
@Handsoap Soup yeah, the obgyn didn't have time to change and I was told it's considered a traumatic birth similar to an emergency C-sec. I really want to know how common fast births are , and what is in place to help with them/ why some women go 0 to 60 so quickly.
My daughter was a planned home birth, but she ended up coming out when the midwife was still on the way! I'm thankful I had obsessively read books about labor and delivery, so I knew just what to do. I held her close, lay down, and had my husband cover us with a towel. The cord was pretty short, so she had to lay on my stomach instead of my chest. After giving a little cry to let us know she was okay, she opened her eyes and just looked around calmly. Then the midwife arrived to take care of us. It was wonderful. ❤
My son was born with a nuchal cord and had to be resuscitated. My OB tried skin to skin, which I would've loved, but I think he nurses found it better to try and give him air. Thankfully the hospital was very quick to respond and kept watch on him for 36 hours.
My baby didn't have skin to skin either and is no worse off for it.
Nuchal cords are surprisingly common. It was worth briefly trying to have the baby on your chest. A tight or double cord that is difficult to get off may be a different situation .
Leaving the cord connected for an extended period of time can cause an excess of red blood cells in the baby and jaundice. Happened with my last child, he came out so fast the midwives didn't make it to my house until almost 40 minutes after he was born. Also, they told me not to try to suction his mouth. So ya know, do your research and trust your own ob or midwife.
That is a very small risk. For majority of babies who undergo delayed cord clamping it's good and has a ton of benefits
As a kid, why did I feel like I always needed to be prepared for this 😂
This is what my dr did with all 3 of mine they waited until the cord stopped pulsing with all of them before it was cut
This helps get all the nutrients from the chord to the baby, and skin to skin for several hours after birth helps with hormones and breastfeeding. It helped me tremendously with my 4th and 5th babies with recovery.
I had read an article years ago that said it's best to wait to cut the cord because a lot of the baby's blood is in it and cutting the cord too soon can cause the baby to be anemic and possibly struggle with any microbes or illnesses it might come in contact with. I forget if it said what, if any, long term consequences there were.
In my medical training we "stripped" the blood through the cord. It was the doctor's decision how much to do this. Not enough blood and there may be a risk of anemia. Too much blood may encourage jaundice later. I'm for letting the cord decide unless there is an emergency
Makes sense, it's heard mamas heart for 9-10months❤and the body it just left 💖
So good to hear a doctor say this. This is an old midwifery maxim. I leave the cord for about 3 minutes...that allows maximum flow to baby from placenta.
Some places in Europe actually do resuscitation with the baby still attached to the cord.
My grandson was a home birth. He was born before the midwives arrived. I had to deliver him. I just wrapped him in a towel and waited to the midwives.
Decades ago there were so many pregnant women at work that I actually got certified as an EMT... just in case!! 🤔😳😷😁🤣👶👨🚒🚑😎
Years ago when I had my first baby and requested things such as: delayed cord cutting, skin to skin, no bath, no vaccines, immediate breastfeeding, cosleeping, etc...I was called a crunchy mom. Nah mate....I just know what's best for me and my baby.
6 kids later and my kids are healthy and happy. Not perfect, but I definitely did some things right 😉
I never did any of those things, well except for the co sleeping, only started breastfeeding after 72 hrs, no skin to skin..and they also turned out fine. Had no problem with bonding or breastfeeding.
I had to fight for a full minute with one of the doctors at the practice I go to and luckily the one who ended up delivering my son did it no questions asked ❤
Ok, thank you, I will not cut it next time I deliver some random baby in random place
Yeah everyone know this it's super common right haha
The phrase "if you happen to be out somewhere delivering a baby" is so funny to me 😅
They cut my babies cord the minute he was born after I had stated so many times I did not want that! I was left on my own after an epidural where they placed my baby across the room from me and when I tried to walk I collapsed and had bleeding so bad and was screamed at for being a ‘hard case’ with diabetes type one. It was awful :(
Idk what happened in your case, but the pediatrician may ask to cut the cord immediately if there's something wrong with the baby they need life saving intervention. I hope your kid is okay
I think I read that you should request that the hospital retain the placenta and cord for 2 reasons:
1) They can store the cord to have a pure source for your child's blood and DNA should there ever be medical reason they need it. So, it's supposed to be stored Immediately
If I'm correct, you need to make arrangements ahead of time. And,
2) Don't freak out, but you're supposed to eat the placenta so your body will re-absorb all of those intense nutrients. This allows the mother to heal and regain strength much faster, easier, and more efficiently.
You don't have to eat it all in one go. You can have it cut up into small pieces and freeze them to eat alone, blended into smoothies, or I believe you can put it into soups, broths, teas, etc.
Of course, it was so long ago that I did this research when my sister-in-law was pregnant and I wanted to help find out as much as I could to help her. So, I found out about water births, midwives, baby massage, lighting, all that stuff.
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Skin to skin!!! My first cried out the womb before being born. He screamed his head off until he was put on me skin to skin. He knew exactly who I, his mommy was.❤ Oh yeah he was sunny side up too.
One of my friends (they are a doctor) mentioned how they had to deliver a baby during late hours. Sadly for them, during delivery - the mother suffered some massive bleeding & tearing along vagina (they had some injuries during Intercourse). So while they were trying to save the baby & mother, they put the baby on the mother's chest to reduce BP which worked as a charm. Thus allowing them to stitch up the bleeding tissue sites & cut the cord later. Needless to say, they gave a lecture to the husband about carefully having sex to avoid such complications.
That tearing happens to many women during birth. If it happened outside of the birth then serious abuse is happening as it’s not possible to cause that much damage to a woman without physically actively trying to :c
I never understood the rush to cut the cord. The baby can use that extra blood. Don't cut the cord until the pulsation has stopped.
If it's any consolation, delayed cord clamping is becoming standard practice in more and more hospitals, and even those that don't do strip the cord (push it into the baby) before cutting.
My sister went into labor at home while using the bathroom, it was her my 3 year old nephew and me. We delivered my niece on the bathroom floor. Paramedics were there about 6 mins after. June 10 2008, it was a tuesday morning I'll never forget.
My situation was a bit different, baby was having issues breathing and my umbilical cord was really short so they had to cut, get baby prepped for NICU, gave a moment of skin to skin to calm baby down, then rushed him to the NICU. I would say you can use the "don't cut the cord immediately" as a general rule, but there are always exceptions.
Absolutely! My baby’s cord wasn’t cut for like 10 minutes. Get them skin to skin and nursing! This will help the uterus to contract and minimize bleeding.
I never had skin to skin, only started breastfeeding when she was 3 days old. Didn't have any problems with the placenta, bleeding, or breastfeeding.
So many Dr's don't do skin to skin, it was heart breaking for me. They took my baby into another room, and I tried so hard to get off the table to get her. I was so sick, weak, tired, and I can't even tell you what or how many drugs I was given at the time, but I fought to get up. I cried when the best I could manage was lifting my arms and head. The nurse held me down because they didn't want me to fall off the table. I barely remember getting to the OR, or leaving the OR. But that moment? It is forever seared into my memory. The pain.
Yes! With my 3rd and 4th babies, they were immediately placed on my bare chest. They seemed to adjust a lot easier, and them nursing for the first time was easier, too.
My doc usually delays... This last baby she cut the cord, because it was too tight. When it was cut I immediately lost the need/feeling to push. Blood sprayed all over the room and nurses. They called a code blue, but baby immediately recovered with stimulation. Apgar 1 to an Apgar 9. Transition care for a couple of hours, but you wouldn't know she had any issue unless I told you. She is a fussy, fitful sleeper at times so I can't help to wonder if she "dreams" of the sensation of being choked 🫤 My only other fussy dreamer aspirated some fluid during birth.
Not to mention how incredible it is for Mumma and bubba bonding ❤❤❤
Can you explain why hospitals are crazy fast to cut the cord, then?
Skin to skin also helps synapses in the brain ( synapses is the act of neurons connecting to each other)
Not in every case! My daughter was born with CMV and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and delayed cord clamping would have only made her more sick... Why TF this isn't talked about more is ridiculous
Have you thought about doing reaction video to the birth scene in the last of us? (Watching that scene gave me the chance to lecture my boyfriend on cutting the umbilical cord not being an emergency in normal times)
Routine use of suction on newborns is not actually recommended any more. Only suction if there's an actual reason, like the presence of meconium.
With my youngest I requested to wait to cut the cord, but was told since I had to have a c-section, that wasn’t an option. I also wanted to nurse her while they finished my surgery because I saw some hospitals allow that (I think in Europe though and I’m in the US), and again, I was told no. 😢
I only had to have a c-section because I had an emergency one with my oldest (I was still awake though), and the hospital wouldn’t allow a VBAC with my 2nd (my OB would have, but her hands were tied, and she was a really great doctor, so I didn’t want to lose her). I had my 3rd at UW (a research hospital) because he was born at 27 weeks and they were so confused about my 2nd c-section and kept asking why I had had it. I just started telling them the other hospital is stupid and that’s why (the hospital was again allowing VBACs last I heard). So then I was stuck. 🥺
I almost had this problem, I managed to get a dr last min at a different hospital to take me, then with my 3rd almost went through it again but my OB said No. I have been fighting to get the hospital to start vbac, they should be. If yo uh go into labor on my day I'll do it normal for you. I was doing everything I could to stimulate the labor before his shift ended!!! Didn't get it in time, but when I went in the next day he came in on his day off in street clothes and did it anyway!!! Smoothest birth I had, out of 4!! I was so sad when he retired.
@@rileydruley3993 that’s amazing!
Makes me so sad. My daughter was born 3 months early and I didn't get to even see her for Abt 5 hrs and I couldn't hold her for 6 days. It was actual torture. I was in shock when it happened so I wasn't super upset in the moment but now looking back it is extremely stress inducing and it keeps me up at night.
Seek help from a psychiatrist or psychologist. You have been miserable for too long. I needed an antidepressant for a while after my aby was born. It felt like PTSD.
When my last baby was born at home before the midwife could arrive, I COULDN'T get her to my chest because her cord was too short. We wrapped her up and clamped the cord and were getting ready to cut it when the midwife arrived. I would have happily left the cord uncut much longer if I'd been able to bring her to the breast with it attached. The afterbirth didn't come until about 45 minutes after she was born, so she would have been stuck on my lap or just held against my thighs or maybe belly, unable to nurse, for that first nearly an hour if we hadn't cut it. I suppose that wouldn't have been the end of the world, and if we hadn't had anything to clamp and cut with that would have been the only course, but I really wanted to hold and nurse her, and she also very clearly was looking to nurse right away. In this case, I think she was best off with her cord cut sooner.
Also, I totally disagree with trying to get baby CRYING. Perked up, yes. But I don't think any of my babies CRIED at birth. Birth doesn't need to be traumatic. They don't need to cry. I understand why hearing a cry can make the adults feel reassured that the baby is breathing well, but you can also see that just fine without a cry or any distress for the baby.
‘If you happen to be somewhere delivering a baby’, has me like oh okay ya I’ll just tuck this away in my back pocket for when I find myself in this situation 😂❤
For my eldest they cut the cord right away since he was born blue and not breathing (emergency).
My youngest was born by csection and got to lay on me under a towel for 3 minutes before they cut the cord and moved him to a warmer so they could finish the surgery
You do not use a knife or a cutting instrument. The father of the child will use his teeth and bite through the umbilical cord. Tradition says that this is how mother should be separated from child.
Thank you! I taught an emt class on this and that was the question I got the most. Don't cut it! The NICU team will thank you if it just waits until the hospital team can do it.❤
Told the midwives to not touch the cord until after it no longer had a pulse.
Was I listened to?
Nope.
My baby was born in the front seat of my car. Neither my husband nor I are “medical people” and we simply didn’t consider cutting the cord. Little dude had quite the delayed clamping 😂
When my first son was born the hospital let me see him for a couple of seconds and then gave me medication and knocked me I woke up an hr later to my mother-in-law holding my baby and then I found out that everyone including aunts and uncles held my baby be4 I had a chance to. I was the last person to hold my baby after I carried him for so long. My second son I went to a different hospital that was 45 mins away from my home, but after I gave birth I held him first skin to skin. Some hospitals are trash.
Doctors: *Don't tell me what to do*
I mentioned this to my OB/GYN, and he told me if you delay cord cutting, you increase the chase of blood clots to baby... ? Maybe he was talking about extreme delays. I've even heard some women suggesting "milking the cord" toward the baby, for some sort of boost for baby-- but these were also "you should eat the placenta" sort of moms, so... 🤷♀️
How would you do mouth/nose suction if you dont have those kinda "turkey baster" looking tools?
If you have no other option, you’d have to use your mouth.
Moms use their mouths cover the nose and mouth then suck and spit put
i dont think it needs to be done, it isnt in the uk/ireland
@@Caoimhe10 I've heard it isn't necessary also
As far as I'm aware, suctioning is only necessary if the baby has swallowed meconium and their airway/ breathing is affected.
We didn't cut either time. Both home births. Salted the placenta, Cord fell off naturally after three days and they have perfect belly buttons.
Yes, yes!! Hallelujah and amen!
When my older sister was born, they took her away to be cleaned and weighed immediately. My mum didn’t see a problem at the time and only regretted it later. She decided not to make that same mistake with me, and made sure I got skin to skin right away.
Of course there are many factors involved in what you can and can’t do in each birth. My sister was born cesarean, I was not, I don’t know if that had an impact but it might.
I didn't have skin to skin with my daughter, and we are no worse off for it. I always thought it was better to cuddle the baby wrapped in a blanket than not at all.
pregnant woman: omg is there anyone here who can deliver a baby?!?
me: i got this, i saw a youtube short on it a while back
So good to see new content!!!
I'm going to assume the exception is if the baby comes out strangled by the cord, and it's better to risk the complications that come from early and non-sterlie cord cutting than trying to untangle it.
That is incredibly useful information.
Thus should be common knowledge to all! Remember this, much better for both mom AND baby AND deliverer!
Wish my DR did this instead of throwing my baby face up on my chest and then throwing the ice cold scissors ✂️ on his chest 😢😢😢😢😢😢she never even said anything to me. She must’ve been mad I delivered at 9:30pm and had to come for 10 min then she left padding inside for 2 wks which I later found out.
If you can't absolutely make sure you're not gonna bleed out and you do have a way to deal with that, you shouldn't be cutting it
Some people may not know to keep the placenta at the same level as baby, though. I'd you have baby too high above the placenta, blood can leave baby and go into the placenta. If the placenta is too high, too much goes to baby. For this reason I say cut the cord, but if you're aware of this then you'll be fine
I'm guessing that there's risk of infection if your scissors aren't clean if you're not in a sterile environment if you attempt to cut the umbilical cord. Anything else?
The placenta actually keeps pumping blood for about 5 minutes to the baby ❤
I wish I knew this before my last baby was born. I gave birth in the hospital parking garage. While I didn’t cut the cord, I left my baby between my legs due to the cold temperatures outside. Unfortunately, I stopped contracting and they had to pull my placenta out. Literally more painful than giving birth. If I had let my baby nurse, I may have passed my placenta without issue
I put it in my birth plan to leave the cord for 5 minutes and the doctor ignored it every time. I felt raped, having it cut and by baby deprived of all those vital nutrients. There was no reason for them to cut it, other than control. Sick.
If it makes you feel any better, too much blood to the baby can cause jaundice as the exta blood cells are broken down.. the likelihood is ,this is how we were trained, along with immediately handing the baby to the nurse. Old habits die hard.
Suctioning isn't good unless absolutely needed
She is right when it comes to births outside of a hospital. But the risks of the cord not being cut are a lot, mostly polycythemia. Which will lead to thins like jaundice and thereafter brain damage because of high bilirubin in the blood.
Remember this class in med school. Good old days.
I am a dad and I suggest, don't cut it yourself as is the trend in some countries. My first child it was very awkward to cut this thing, it's somehow against natural feelings to cut into a piece of 'flesh'. But worst is while I was keeping the scissors, the way the nurse did handle the baby, he moved the baby's face very close to my scissors. I was scared. I would say, leave this to the nurses AND please watch carefully how they handle the baby while the scissors are around - sometimes they may not be careful and cause an accident. Coincidence perhaps, my dad lost an eye at birth this way : a nurse punctured his eye with the scissors. Quite horrible and life long physical and perhaps also psychological trauma. That's why I'm saying, keep an eye on the nurses and if it looks like they don't pay all attention, don't hesitate to ask them to be careful. Needless to say, at my second child I refused to cut it, and got big eyes but stood my choice. I don't feel in any way that cutting it made me 'participate' to the birth. I did participate by being present and encouraging mom.
Im pretty sure babies can actually get jaundice if the umbilical cord is cut immediately because of the blood and nutrients in it and that can lead to complications... leaving it attached for a little while then tying it off is ideal
The sad thing is most peoples only knowledge about birth si from movies which dont usually depict the blood/crap/white stuff/umbilical cord/placenta and all that... so i think lots of people think the baby just pops out all ready to go and many dont even know that the afterbirth is passed a little while later
If I have a baby I'm definitely requesting this. Trying for one but may be having ivf soon but love all your advice so thank you!
Oh thanks
Next time I go to medical school
Deliver a baby
This information will help me
So, completely genuine question: when the cord IS eventually cut, is it painful to the mother, the baby, or both? My best guess would be both, but I truly have no idea whether one body part’s nerves could transfer signals to two separate organisms or not…
My cord snapped before birth. Let me tell you, I have never seen so many doctors pawing over a cord and placenta with a fine tooth comb in my life! They wanted answers. They were also looking for missing chunks. It was crazy.
A missing chunk could still be attached inside and can cause you to hemorrhage, sometimes even a delayed hemorrhage that happens days after. That's why they wanted to make sure they got it all, and also why pulling on the cord to get it out is a bad ideah.
They were looking for any defects in the cord. Rarely, certain cords have signs that tell the doctors something might be wrong with the baby's heart.
@@elizabethschaer9636 My daughter has some rare disorders..so I'm sure this is why the cord being all skinny and snapping on that spot happened(genetics seems to thinks so too). They were confident they got all the pieces but were unhappy for months trying to figure out why it happened(disorders and such). They said they usually only see all that happened to my cord in poverty riddled countries where malnourishment is prevalent. She is 10 now but like I said, she has suspr rare genetic disorders.
They told me that delaying the cord cutting made our son’s jaundice much worse than it otherwise would have been.
Jaundice is a small risk that may happen due to delayed clamping but overall delayed cord clamping typically has more benefits than riska
I am confident that i am now prepared to deliver babies