Jess gave birth to her second baby Arya Ruby, followed by a physiological third stage in a planned hospital waterbirth. The hospital where Jess gave birth is located in the north-east region of Victoria in Australia. It has a maternity service that facilitates approximately 1200 births per annum with a level 2 special care nursery. … Continue reading
International Conference on Transitional Care Cutting the Cord 19 April 2013 The event will be held in the Centre for Professional Development, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Please visit the webpage for this conference for up-to-date and correct information click here Programme “Childbirth today is safer than it ever has been throughout history. Modern … Continue reading
Gunnar Jay’s birth story Valerie and Zeke are proud to share the birth experience of their beautiful son Gunnar Jay, born March 8 2012 at York Hospital in Pennsylvania, USA. Valerie writes the attending doctors and several nurses informed her Gunnar was their first experience at York Hospital with delayed cord clamping! “Unfortunately we have … Continue reading
Elise is a birth and postnatal doula and has generously shared the birth story of her third baby Dimitri. This birth was in Swindon, United Kingdom. Dimitri was born via an emergency c-section, after transferring from a planned homebirth. Elise arrived at the hospital prepared with a birth plan outlining the “natural cesearean ‘woman-centred’ technique”, … Continue reading
By David Hutchon, Narendra Aladangady and Amanda Burleigh. This article was published by the British Journal of Midwifery in April 2010, Vol. 18, No. 4. pp 269 “Selkirk et al (2008) state that the umbilical cord clamp has ‘evolved into a physiological necessity’. This is quite nonsensical for a number of reasons. Chiefly, physiological evolution … Continue reading
For our first child we planned a home birth attended by a midwife. One of our reasons for choosing a homebirth was because we felt it was important not to rush cord clamping and cutting. When we asked our midwife her position on cord clamping and cutting, her answer was “barring any emergencies, clamping can … Continue reading
Search for ‘birth injury’ in your favourite search engine and you will see plenty of advertisements by legal firms. In the last few years, laywers have caught on to the practice and harms of immediate infant cord clamping too! Maybe having a lawyer at your birth is not such a bad idea, given their understanding of neonatal … Continue reading
