Now he is suggesting that I have a c-section tomorrow. One of the reasons being that the umbilical cord might be short and that my pelvis is too small. The problem is that he has never done an internl ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. CUTTING a baby's umbilical cord immediately after birth is a rite of passage for new fathers but is it better to wait? Sydney ...

After your baby is born, the umbilical cord is no longer needed. It is clamped and cut, leaving a short stump. A nurse removes the clamp after 1 or 2 days. The stump will fall off within about 1 ...

Several umbilical cord abnormalities exist, including an umbilical cord that’s too short or long. Another is a two-vessel cord or SUA. This cord type has a single artery and vein instead of two ...

Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors ...

Cutting your baby's umbilical cord is one of the big cinematic moments of birth — who gets to cut the cord? What will you do with the cord? But once the cord is cut and mother and child are ...

The medical team must quickly cut the umbilical cord and then rush the baby to aid. But taking a few seconds to squeeze blood from the cord into an infant’s abdomen before cutting the cord could ...

Torres had intensive chemotherapy to control the disease in the short-term. For a better long ... child’s stem cells taken from the umbilical cord so this is not taken from the actual baby ...

You may be familiar with an expression concerning "having a short umbilical chord." I'm not sure of the exact words, but I see it as someone who has stayed close to home. After living here for all ...

Of the 68 patients, 48 (71 percent) received grafts of umbilical-cord blood that were mismatched for two or more HLA antigens. Of the 60 patients who survived 28 days or more after transplantation ...