Is this true? Scary thought

[EarthMama]

Someone last night at a party told me that if I toss and turn a lot abruptly, the cord will become wrapped around my baby's neck? I got scared! What do you think? I toss and turn all the time, sometimes abruptly...

 

[lilacmonkey87]

Who was it who told you this? if it was a health professional or caregiver fair enough but even so nuchal cord is very common and generally not something to worry about, my son had a nuchal cord and it just slipped over his shoulders at birth, my cousin was born with a nuchal cord that was wrapped round 3 times...she is fine and healthy. try not to worry about things in too much detail.

x

 

[SabrinaKat]

Yikes! I don't think it's true at all.

I toss and turn all night long and my scans have always shown baby/cord/placenta is fine (I do ask these things due to paranoia!)

best wishes

 

[GypsyDancer]

I think its probably an old wives tale...ive never heard this mentioned by a midwife ect x

 

[AllStar]

I've never heard that before! Plus, on several occasions with this baby and my son if they weren't in the correct position (for measuring or whatever) at a scan the sonographer (several different ones) have told me to lie on one side then to very quickly turn right over to the other. I doubt they would say that if it risked the cord tangling round the baby. Relax

 

[Mrsctobe]

No its not true

 

[amjon]

I barely move at all at night and my daughter died because of a knot/ nuchal cord.

 

[Amarna]

I don't think that's true at all, most likely an old wives tale.

 

[Cee108]

Gosh if I start listing the things I've been told not to do because it will wrap the cord around the baby's neck ....

Most of it is old wives' tales. Just imagine if you were suspended in a pool of liquid (even if a bit tight) and there was a cord attached to you, how likely is it that a sudden movement would make it wrap around you? And its a very constricted space, mind!

Like AllStar, I too was told to move this way and that during my ultrasound and it took me about 10 minutes of movements (and it ended in me being asked to lie down flat, lift my hips a bit and jiggle my belly hard like a dancer !) before his royal highness decided to stop being irritating and change positions LoL

 

[AliciaDA]

I dont think it's true either. I was actually reading on this a few night ago and they said it isn't till they are usually born where being wrapped around their neck is an issue (before that they wiggle out on their own or can function fine with it), and by that time the doctor can remove it in time. My husband was born with his cord wrapped around his neck and they moved it in time and he's perfecting fine

 

[NuKe]

utter rubbish!

 

[Sunshine12]

Do these people have no brain cells whatsoever?! Why on earth would someone tell a pregnant woman something like this when its a load of utter rubbish in any case! Some people should really put their brain in grear before they speak! x

 

[Cee108]

Do these people have no brain cells whatsoever?! Why on earth would someone tell a pregnant woman something like this when its a load of utter rubbish in any case! Some people should really put their brain in grear before they speak! x

I second you! People have no minds whatsoever and every time I tell someone I'm having a baby (or they SEE it, LOL), they'll start sharing war-zone stories about what are the bazillion things I can do wrong and how horrible their labor was - like I need to know.