https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:17:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917150 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:51:38 +0000 StrawberryBee 917150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@runsyellowlites: the study would be awesome, thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917140 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:50:07 +0000 StrawberryBee 917140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone! I will definitely continue to bring it up at future appointments. DH will be with me for the next one and can champion our cause. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917131 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:48:07 +0000 runsyellowlites 917131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'll have to find it but that isn't accurate! Does your blood stop flowing to your toes &amp; go BACK to your heart just because you put them up? No!</p> <p>Infact there has actually been risk of hypoxia &amp; cell damage for NOT delaying bc until the lungs are fully open (after multiple breaths) the primary oxygen source to the baby IS the oxygenated cord blood! If you clamp that early baby is actually getting LESS oxygen &amp; having to fight to get air!</p> <p>I'll try to track down the study later this evening! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917130 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:47:53 +0000 SugarplumsMom 917130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd email her and keep it brief and link the article. Then reiterate your wishes and thank her for her time. Hopefully she gets the hint that you're serious about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917128 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:47:35 +0000 Mrs. Twine 917128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would come in armed with information (in a polite way, of course, unless they decide to be jerks, in which case I might be a little more assertive) and state what my wishes are. I hope someone has more specific advice-- with Ellie my OB I had been seeing the whole time delivered, and with Lorelei we were a HBAC transfer, so I had to have whoever was on duty and didn't get very much as far as options. I think you are making a good, informed choice. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917118 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:45:58 +0000 Dandelion 917118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, it's pulsing, so the baby is getting all of it. Consider hiring a doula, and/or informing your SO, so that they can be on board to remind and stop the OB when they go to clamp...during the pushing stage and a million times before that. Once you've delivered, you need someone coherent to be aware of what's going on and remind at the last minute, if necessary. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917114 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:44:28 +0000 Mrs. Pen 917114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry this has happened. You do have legal birth RIGHTS however and it is good to be knowledgeable of those as well. As long as whatever you choose doesn't put you or your baby at risk (which neither delayed cord clamping or skin to skin do), you have a right to birth how you wish. </p> <p>I did delayed cord clamping AND skin to skin and had no issues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917104 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:42:17 +0000 Navy_Mommy 917104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StrawberryBee: didn't read the whole thing, but this article looks promising...http://jama.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=206143 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917095 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:38:08 +0000 Navy_Mommy 917095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ummmm, wouldn't it just flow back into the baby after that? It isn't like the placenta is a bottomless pit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917091 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:37:51 +0000 Foodnerd81 917091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My hospital does both delayed cord clamping and immediate skin to skin as a matter of course (assuming no other issues). I have never heard its one or the other. I'd bring it up at your next appt with a diff OB. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917087 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:36:09 +0000 StrawberryBee 917087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: @Navy_Mommy: the excuse I was given is that the baby would lose blood because it would flow back into the placenta if not clamped. Does anyone have any good resources I can print to bring with me as ammo? I'm not sure how much faith they put into internet resources vs 'what they know.' I did find this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=5730" rel="nofollow">http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/?p=5730</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917075 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:32:36 +0000 tlcbaby 917075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My midwife was on board with delayed cord clamping-they just passed him to me with the cord attached until it stopped pulsing. It wasn't more than a couple minutes. Maybe you can specifically ask them for skin to skin with the cord attached until it stops pulsing. And just make sure you address it again with whoever delivers the baby and the nurses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917061 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:30:19 +0000 Navy_Mommy 917061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If they push the issue ask what harm it would do to delay. If they admit there would be no harm, they have ABSOLUTELY no grounds to deny you what you want. If they say there will be harm, bring in your research. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917050 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:27:43 +0000 hilsy85 917050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Navy_Mommy: this! Bottom line, it's your birth experience and as long as you and LO are both safe and healthy, you should get to have control. We didn't do delayed cord clamping but we did immediate skin to skin--he was put on my stomach while the cord was still attached so I don't see why they couldn't then just wait to clamp? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917034 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:26:03 +0000 Navy_Mommy 917034@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just stick to your guns - you respect their opinion, but you've done your own research and this is what YOU want for YOUR baby. They can't force you to do something you don't want to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/delayed-cord-clamping-and-skin-to-skin#post-917016 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:23:44 +0000 StrawberryBee 917016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Okay, I'm a bit irritated at my ob. The practice that I go to has quite a few doctors, and there's no knowing who I'll get at delivery. At my 36 week appointment today I finally met the last dr, and we reviewed my birth plan. I'm pretty open to fluctuations in the 'plan', but one of the main points for me was delayed cord clamping. At first she went on about how "it wasn't like blood was going to go squirting across the room because they clamp it first before cutting," and when I said no, it's more about the benefits of delaying until the cord has stopped pulsing, she told me that it wasn't possible because they try to do immediate skin to skin (also a priority for me) and that the blood would flow back to the placenta due to gravity. </p> <p>I knew there was something off about this but was unprepared, so having researched this after the fact it seems that this is an outdated concept (she was a younger dr, maybe 40s?) and not true. So, now what? Plead my case to the next dr and I hope they have a different opinion? Try to convince the next one I talk to that they're wrong? </p> <p>Does anyone have any experience either with doing both skin to skin and delayed clamping, or trying to change their doctors' mind? </p>