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.

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was something off about this but was unprepared, so having researched this after the fact it seems that this is an outdated concept (she was a younger dr, maybe 40s?)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?

Does anyone have any experience either with doing both skin to skin and delayed clamping, or trying to change their doctors' mind?