Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“It Works Like A Tube Of Water…”
“It works like a tube of water. If your baby is higher than the placenta, she’ll bleed to death through the cord. ” L&D Nurse when asked about delayed cord clamping.
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Jessica had this to say,
Jan 28, 2012 @ 6:30 pm (Quote)
Are you telling me my 3 homebirth babies all bled to death? Fascinating! Let me call the media to report these living, breathing, bloodless kids.
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No, lady. The cord works like a normal circulatory system. The cord actually pumps OUT of the placenta after baby is born, more than pumping out. Funny how misinformed medical “professionals” are.
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Maggie Cain had this to say,
Jan 28, 2012 @ 6:54 pm (Quote)
I know we could all make jokes about this and ever other stupid thing that birth “professionals” say to birthing women, but this really struck me as awful. I mean, not even prevailing conventional wisdom supports this. It’s just a flat-out lie designed to manipulate someone into making choices that are detrimental to a tiny child who cannot stand up for him- or herself. How shameful.
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Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez had this to say,
Jan 28, 2012 @ 7:05 pm (Quote)
Oh! The STUPID! IT BUURRRNS!
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And that’s why all placentas attach to the very top of the uterus. If they didn’t, the babies with placentas lying lower than them would all be bloodless.
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because she just turned 3 and i never got to use that line when she was 2!
How dumb. I had a hospital birth and requested delayed clamping, and they didn’t even make a peep about it. makes no sense, it is more like a needed thing that prevents horrible stuff if you let it delay. Gives the best vitamins to the baby and prevents hemorrhage in babies. how uneducated of the nurse.
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My OB told me this crap too. I donated the blood, so it wasn’t wasted, but I still would’ve preferred it to go to my son.
DD is gonna be born at a birth center. It’s all going to her, thank goodness.
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I’ve had two babies. One was born in a hospital, where they clamped her cord BEFORE she was born (it was around her neck and became a “vital emergency”) even though I told them to leave it the hell alone. She was blue and floppy with poor muscle tone until she was resuscitated a little bit (which I requested take place ON me and they still took her across the room).
My second was born at home. I was kneeling when I had him, and when he came out I grabbed him up to my chest. He was obviously higher than his placenta. He stayed on my chest with an intact cord until well after the placenta had been born. He was robust and healthy, needed no resuscitation and was all around perfect.
And data supports my anecdote. How do people believe this tripe? Someone TAUGHT her that! I’ve seen doctors say it too. Ridiculous.
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Christine Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 8:15 am (Quote)
Just curious – how did they clamp it before she was born? Was her head out but not her body? I haven’t ever seen that one done.
I have no idea how people believe this one, either. It defies logic, a&p, and common sense. And history. Do they think the cave people were like “Quick! Give me a sinew! We have to tie this thingy off NOW!”
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sprybuzzard Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 2:41 pm (Quote)
I saw it done while observing a birth. The doctor tried to pull the twice-wrapped cord over the head but was unable to, so she clamped it with two small plastic clamps and cut it between. Baby was born in another push. I don’t know if the baby wasn’t receiving oxygen because the cord was too tight, but the doctor had very little room to clamp and cut.
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Mama Wrench Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 8:58 am (Quote)
I don’t understand it. At all.
You have a baby who’s getting 100% of his oxygen via the cord, which (if it’s around his neck) comes out behind the head. If it’s around his neck it’s in a perfect “notch” that prevents compression while at the same time guaranteeing baby’s head, and therefore access to oxygen, will have access to air before the cord comes out.
I know that “cord around the neck” SOUNDS really violent and dangerous but does ANYONE stop for two seconds to consider how non-dangerous it really is?
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Serene Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 6:04 am (Quote)
The panic comes because sometimes – SOMETIMES – a baby will have a short cord, and there are anecdotes where a baby with a short cord will be born with it around their neck and either
a/ the placenta will tear away from mother causing one or both to bleed and die
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b/ the placenta is firmly fixed, and the cord tightens around the babies neck and causes damage to the trachaea.
Its still a load of horse poo, but the anecdotes are there, and they are what started this hooey!
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But see if the baby is put directly on my abdomen then he/she is really at the same level they were in while in the womb. Only outside.
No reason to get into any more logic than this because obviously it would just go right over nursie poo’s head
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