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January 20, 2023 06:44 PM |
Umbilical cord clamping is a human invention; many questions need to be asked: | |||
(1) The Apgar score – This method of rating the condition of newborn babies may have resulted from adoption of a policy in the early 1950s at the Sloane Hospital in New York to clamp the cord within the first minute after birth:
(2) Fears of jaundice -
The protocol for immediate clamping of the cord may have come from research (mainly with premature infants) seeming to indicate that polycythemia and excess bilirubin can result if "placental transfusion" is allowed to occur:
(3) Human assisted births of thoroughbred foals - The only other species in which clamping of the umbilical cord has been tried is in the breeding of race horses. Disorientation and respiratory problems in newborn foals were attributed to diminished blood volume. The neuropathology resembles that found in newborn monkeys subjected to asphyxia at birth:
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