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Will have to watch later since I'm nursing but I thought delaying would be this big deal at the hospital and they didn't care at all. Intact until it was bloodless woohoo!
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@scg00387: I'm really hoping it will become common practice at ALL hospitals around the world within the near future. I'm so glad that yours was accommodating!
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Thanks for posting, gave me something to interesting to listen to while biking inside.
When my husband did his OB rotation they rolled their idea at delayed cord clamping, which made us both surprised.I did a bit of research back in the day on iron transport to the brain and one of the things I have underlined multiple times in my notes from that stint is iron makes for smart babies. It's been looked at at: delayed vs early clamping, and i guess some of the research has been variable on whether there's any solid benefit but there's no harm and some studies show benefit so I don't understand why OBs would roll their eyes at it.
http://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2011/11/15/delayed-cord-clamping-protects-new-born-babies-iron-deficiency -
@Maysprout: I don't think all OB's are aware of the benefits. It was (and still is) common practice to cut the cord immediately, it was how they were trained, and so they just think that delayed clamping is silly. Still though, it bothers me that some doctors won't consider something so simple and easy if it's what the parent requests - regardless of their personal thoughts on the subject.
I hope that this video and the research surrounding optimal cord clamping will spread and more hospitals and OB's will become informed about the benefits and start practicing it more regularly.
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@Arden: I was told by my ob that most of the studies on the benefits of delayed cord clamping were done in third world/developing countries, so those babies were presumably in need of all the extra iron they could get because they may not have been getting it from other sources. I didn't do my own research as we chose to do cord blood banking and you can't do both, but that's what my ob gave as a partial explanation for we not being super gung ho about it.
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@Arden: I was prepared to be all defensive and it was a complete non issue. It's such a simple thing if there aren't any complications interfering so you'd think it'd be SOP. I figure if that bloods so valuable I want my baby to get it! I did investigate cord blood donation in case we couldn't delay and my hospital didn't offer it or use it so the choice was easy.
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The on call doc who delivered my son had no problem delaying clamping and cutting. He even told me it was done pulsing and asked if he could cut it.
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@hilsy85: Even if that's true, the conclusion doesn't make sense to me. Just because third-world babies are potentially in MORE need of extra iron does not mean that the babies here DON'T need it. Besides, iron isn't the only benefit - the oxygen rich blood is also an important aspect that is equally beneficial to infants everywhere.
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This was great to learn! It seems to me there's no real reason to clamp it early, so why wouldn't you wait?! This will absolutely be on my birth plan (which will probably only have 2 or 3 things)
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I wanted to delay cord clamping, but I apparently had lost a lot of blood and my dr. was concerned about hemorrhaging, so we didn't get to delay for very long. I'm not exactly sure how those two things correlate, though? I'm pretty disappointed by it.
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