Delayed Cord Clamping

[milkmachine]

i have a question i guess if you want to collect cord blood cells you couldn't wait for it to turn white could you? sorry if its a stupid question.

surely those stem cells are better off in the baby though

 

[Kota]

DCC won't make a difference to stem cell collection as they get those from the placenta itself and even when you allow the cord to stop pulsing there will still be blood/stem cells left in the placenta for storage/donation,.

i really wanted this but because Oompa came shooting out so quickly the cord had actually ripped ragged regardless. it needed to be clamped, cut and the placenta birthed asap to stop it from bleeding out or the part of the cord still attatched to the placenta going back up inside.

 

[K477uk]

I had never heard of this!

Silly question... is it possible if you have to have a c section? Or do the HAVE to cut the cord right away in a section?

Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I know nothing about DCC.

I asked for a natural 3rd stage and for the cord to be left, which as most have said here wasn't greated with any surprise. But I didn't end up having this because of ending in an emergancy section. Unfortuantly it is far to dangerous to leave it still attached for that! (I did ask... with the assumption that it was no.. as was kind of laughed at in a very nice way!!)

 

[Jetters]

I think i'd like to do this! Silly Q- is the cord long enough for the baby to go on your chest for skin-to-skin while the placenta is still inside?

 

[faun]

I didn't ask for delayed cord clamping but whem my lo was born they put him on my chest and left him there with the cord attached and no clamps while they wrote a few things in my notes and then clamped and cut the cord.

 

[Kota]

I think i'd like to do this! Silly Q- is the cord long enough for the baby to go on your chest for skin-to-skin while the placenta is still inside?

generally, yes it is.

 

[Blob]

Yea this time i plan on having a home birth and will ask for it too...though for some reason with Tabs i thought the idea was gross. But am still going to get the sodding placenta out asap as that was nasty for me last time.

 

[marley2580]

I had never heard of this!

Silly question... is it possible if you have to have a c section? Or do the HAVE to cut the cord right away in a section?

Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I know nothing about DCC.

See if you can find a doc that will do a 'natural' caesarian

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613254/
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6028478.ece
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/dec/03/health.medicineandhealth

That's what I'm going for next time.

 

[gina8177]

DCC won't make a difference to stem cell collection as they get those from the placenta itself and even when you allow the cord to stop pulsing there will still be blood/stem cells left in the placenta for storage/donation,.

i really wanted this but because Oompa came shooting out so quickly the cord had actually ripped ragged regardless. it needed to be clamped, cut and the placenta birthed asap to stop it from bleeding out or the part of the cord still attatched to the placenta going back up inside.

Crazy, I'll have to look into that. I had given up on stem cell collection because I assumed that it wouldn't allow delayed cord cutting. But if I can wait till the cord goes white/stops pulsing and still collect stem cells, that would be awesome.

 

[TigerLady]

I had never heard of this!

Silly question... is it possible if you have to have a c section? Or do the HAVE to cut the cord right away in a section?

Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I know nothing about DCC.

See if you can find a doc that will do a 'natural' caesarian

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613254/
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6028478.ece
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/dec/03/health.medicineandhealth

That's what I'm going for next time.

OMG! That is SOOO cool! I would give loads to be able to do this. It is so opposite of what I experienced last time. I didn't even get to SEE or HEAR by baby for almost 30-45 minutes after he was born. Even my MIL saw him before I did.

Unfortunately, I live in a small town where I have only one option for a surgeon... my OB. But he is pretty forward thinking. He is actually very frustrated that the hospital here doesn't allow VBACs. I will be printing these articles and giving them to him. Maybe he can convince the hospital to at least let me have some part of this.

I would most love to see my baby being born and be able to hold him/her right after birth. Even if only for a minute....

 

[mommyof3co]

My midwife did this with Hayden. I had meant to talk to her about it before or during and completely forgot but she did it automatically. I think it's more common with midwives as they are more for the natural approach to childbirth...but not everyone has a midwife here.

 

[purple_kiwi]

I had never heard of this!

Silly question... is it possible if you have to have a c section? Or do the HAVE to cut the cord right away in a section?

Sorry if that is a dumb question, but I know nothing about DCC.

See if you can find a doc that will do a 'natural' caesarian

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2613254/
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6028478.ece
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/dec/03/health.medicineandhealth

That's what I'm going for next time.

OMG! That is SOOO cool! I would give loads to be able to do this. It is so opposite of what I experienced last time. I didn't even get to SEE or HEAR by baby for almost 30-45 minutes after he was born. Even my MIL saw him before I did.

Unfortunately, I live in a small town where I have only one option for a surgeon... my OB. But he is pretty forward thinking. He is actually very frustrated that the hospital here doesn't allow VBACs. I will be printing these articles and giving them to him. Maybe he can convince the hospital to at least let me have some part of this.

I would most love to see my baby being born and be able to hold him/her right after birth. Even if only for a minute....

i know how you feel about the not being able to see baby after birth. i had an emergancy c-section and only saw her for like 2 min before she was taken away for about an hour. ive seen pics of her now spending that first hr with everyone else but not me. it was hard.

i wanted delayed cord clamping but i couldnt have that with the c-section

 

[OmiOmen]

This will be my first birth so I have not done it but it is in my birth-plan. I had a stand in midwife at my last appointment and asked her about it and she said the MW led unit I should be in will be fine with doing it but I plan on going over my whole birth-plan with my MW at the next appointment. Obviously like anything in birth-plan it can only be done if I stay low risk and it all goes well but the delayed cord clamping is one thing I feel strongly about because I want him to have all his blood and not be deprived of iron (especially since I will be BF which obviously is made for a natural birth and does not take early cord cutting into account by adding iron like formula does). So fingers crossed that I will not run into any problems with the whole thing.