Cord Blood Clamping


"We have a serious situation of medical persons using or
advocating drugs during labor, rather then encouraging the
mother to birth her child in warm water, and that position
of birth are also important. If the mother is tired and
exhausted, she should be encouraged to birth on her side,
never semi-sitting or flat on her back; gravity positions
are strongly recommended, stride positions, standing, on all
fours, however, the mother feels, intuitively is right for
her baby. All this to be followed with full delayed clamping
of the cord. Ideally, this is waiting for the placenta to be
expelled and all pulsation in the cord ceased. Evidence is
that the cord may pulsation for 20-minutes. What is the rush to
stop it sooner?

The cord should be white/silver, limp and not pulsation.
Ideally, the mother will see the benefit of no clamping or
cutting because there is a risk of Super bug or any blood
disease getting in a clamped and cut cord. Leaving the
infant a "sealed" unit is what the Pioneers practiced prior
to 1923.

The Vancouver Children's Hospital, now has this Superbug, in
their maternity wards. The only hope they may have to stop
the spread of the bug to infants is if they, too, stop
immediate cord clamping and cutting, and leave the cord
unclamped and the baby goes home with mother, as a sealed
unit. Mothers simply have to be re-educated on the merits of
the Lotus method. The cord will fall off in less time then
treating a clamped and cut cord that takes from 8-days to
two weeks to heal and fall off. The Lotus method takes only
2 or 3 days for the cord to seal off. Bonus for baby are no
cord infections and the infant has received all his/her cord
stem cell that otherwise, the Hospital would have taken for
research, with or without the parent's consent. That means
the DNA of both sides of the family is in the hands of
total strangers. Why risk such information to those you will
never meet and how the DNA stem cells may be used?"

These are web sites for more Information. Some have a
variety of topics:
http://www.cordclamping.com
http://www.123-baby-birth.com
http://www.abham.com/currentevents

D. Young

Excerpt of: Hasty Umbilical Cord Clamping
From: "Donna Young" <dyoung@...>
http://www.abham.com/currentevents


And the ONLINE BIRTH CENTER NEWS
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Issue 32.8, Nov. 19, 2002
A publication of the Online Birth Center
http://www.moonlily.com/obc/

*** More Information about the Lotus method
Views on Article - Premature Babies - ... My research on the cord
cutting is that there is the lotus method, no cutting or clamping, at
all. And delayed, the babies cord pulses blood into its system ...
http://www.indiaparenting.com/articles/data/art06_003book.shtml

Delayed cord clamping - ... This too, was the Pioneer method now
called the Lotus Method. ... of an infant, year 2000, just after
immediate cord clamping was directed on "all" babies by SOGC ...
http://www.fsneo.org/JourClub/3-019.htm

Lotus Birth - ... Most babies born in the hospital have their cords
clamped and ... This second method was used at my first three ...
While reading about lotus birth, I learned that the ...
http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/debbiemom/lotusbirth.html

To Mother with Love: What's New - ... to the Birth section, Is There
a "Method" for Achieving ... from my Birth and Cherishing Our Babies
pages. ... has helpful articles on unassisted and lotus birth, as ...
http://www.mama2mama.org/whatsnew.html

*** Information about Cord Blood Banking
Genes at Work - Cord Blood Banking - ... Clearly, the timing of cord
clamping during delivery can significantly alter neonatal blood
volume and early clamping of the cord should not be done in order ...
http://www.umdnj.edu/genesatwork/topics/ob_gyn/03_ob_gyn.htm

Alpha Cord Umbilical Blood Bank Network - The nation's first
network of cord blood banks, Alpha Cord, Inc. offers you choices and
savings for umbilical cord blood storage.
www.alphacord.com

Cord Blood Registry - The Name to Trust - An experienced family
cord blood stem cell bank. Find out why doctors trust Cord Blood
Registry, the de facto standard and a pioneer in cord blood banking
research and development.
www.cordblood.com

Cord Blood Donor Foundation - established to provide educational
awareness and to conduct further research in the use of cord blood
stem cells.
http://www.cordblooddonor.org/

Umbilical Cord Blood Bank - public cord blood bank whose purpose is
to support bone marrow transplants by banking cord blood from a
variety of ethnic groups.
http://www.cordblood.med.ucla.edu/

Cord Blood Transplant Links from GrannyBarb and Art's Leukemia ... -
GrannyBarb and Art's. Cord Blood Transplant Resources. Contents. ...
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants. Journal Articles. Outcomes among
562 ...
http://www.acor.org/diseases/hematology/Leukemia/cord.html

Touching More Lives: American Red Cross National Cord Blood ... -
... blood banking program, similar in some respects to our blood
banking program, " said Heidi Patterson, the national director of the
Red Cross cord blood program ...
http://www.redcross.org/news/bm/cord/010209a.html

*** More Info and Policy Statements about Crd Clamping
The Neurological Damage Caused by Immediate Umbilical Cord ... - ...
Immediate cord clamping is advocated by ACOG to obtain blood samples
for medico-legal documentation and to hasten transfer of some babies
to a resuscitation ...
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/1/prweb31880.php

Cord Blood Banking for Potential Future Transplantation:
Subject ... - ... There may be a temptation to practice immediate
cord clamping aggressively to increase the volume of cord blood that
can be harvested for cord blood banking. ...
http://www.aap.org/policy/re9860.html

The Dangers of Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord - ... life in
the minutes following birth, and how early cord clamping disrupts
this process; many of the birth injuries caused by loss of blood
(hypovolemia) and ...
http://www.cordclamping.com/

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF DELEGATES (RTF) - ... The use
of umbilical cord blood raises two main ethical problems. First, the
exact timing of the clamping has a significant impact on the
neonate. ...
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/upload/mm/16/a-02res504.doc


You may ask why I pose both a medical option of Cord Blood banking
and the Lotus Method togather on the same page? I think it is
possible to do both have delayied clamping and to bank the blood for
stem cells. It is my humble opinion, what do you think? Is it
medically viable to save the stem cells after waiting for the cord to
stop pulsing? Is the stem cells still there in what blood is left to
harvest?