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The Dangerous Practice of Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord
Basics of the Cord Clamping / Brain Damage Issue
The following are established facts:
The following are established facts regarding
umbilical cord clamping before pulmonary oxygenation is established:
Depending on the degree of asphyxia and the length of
time of asphyxia produced by cord clamping, the child will have varying
degrees of brain damage that range from no damage through degrees of
neurological impairment to brain death. Natural (normal) cord closure
prevents birth asphyxia and prevents brain damage. Articles on this
website explain how modern obstetrical and neonatal care is causing
newborn brain damage and how that care can be corrected; they provides
references to support the explanation.
What's New
To Clamp or Not to Clamp by Dr. George Malcolm Morley - A practical guide for expectant parents to explain the safe use of a cord clamp to their doctor or midwife. Erasmus Darwin: The Physiology and Iatrogenic Pathology of the Third Stage by Dr. George Malcolm Morley - This is an article for practicing obstetricians and midwives outside of academia; it is a short history of how panicked defensive medicine started the cord clamping error and how many false premises have compounded it and prevented its correction. How the Cord Clamp Injures Your Baby’s Brain by Dr. George Malcolm Morley - This very long article describes how the placenta and functioning cord prepare the child for healthy 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 lack of oxygen (hypoxia) due to early cord clamping are discussed. Please be sure to not only read these articles, but pass them along to as many people as you can, especially your doctor or midwife. The following is a small collection of writing pertaining to the subject of cord clamping. This list is certainly not anywhere near complete or comprehensive, yet. But it will hopefully continue to be updated. Additional Cord Clamping Articles/Letters Cord Closure: Can Hasty Clamping Injure the Newborn? - By George Malcolm Morley, MB, ChB, FACOG, July 1998, OBG Management.
Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord: Cutting the Ties That Bind -
By Cory Mermer, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.
Lost Causes and
Side Effects: The Neurological Damage Caused by Immediate Cord Clamping
is Irreversible - By George Malcolm Morley, MB, ChB, FACOG
Current Best Evidence: A Review Of The Literature On
Umbilical Cord Clamping - Judith S. Mercer
(J Midwifery Womens Health 2001 Nov-Dec;46(6):402-14)
Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Cause & Prevention - Letter to the Editor by George Malcolm Morley (Pediatrics).
How About
Studying Infants Not Subjected to Iatrogenic Injury? - Letter to the
Editor by George Malcolm Morley (Pediatrics).
A
Simple Practice to Increase "Red Cell Transport" in Newborns -
Letter to the Editor by Cory Mermer (Archives of Disease in
Childhood).
A Randomised Controlled Trial of Delayed Cord Clamping in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants (Eur J Pediatr 2000 Oct;159(10):775-7)
Delayed Clamping of the Umbilical Cord Improves Hematologic Status of
Guatemalan Infants at 2 Months of Age (Am J Clin Nutr 1997
Feb;65(2):425-31)
Early or Late Cord Clamping?
- Short article from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 1 Issue 30,
July 23, 1999).
Placental Transfusion: Umbilical Cord Clamping and Preterm Infants (J
Perinatol 2000 Sep;20(6):351-4)
Umbilical Cord Clamping. An Analysis of a Usual Neonatological Conduct
(Acta Physiol Pharmacol Ther Latinoam 1998;48(4):224-7)
Umbilical Cord Clamping: Beliefs and Practices of American
Nurse-Midwives (J Midwifery Womens
Health 2000 Jan-Feb;45(1):58-66)
Just One of Many "Trespasses" That Children Bear - Letter to the
Editor (British Medical Journal)
Delayed
Umbilical Cord Clamping in Preterm Infants: A Feasibility Study
- (Paediatr Child Health 1997 Aug;33(4):308-10)
Umbilical Cord Blood: Secret to Brain Repair?
- Associated Press Report by Daniel Q. Haney, February 19, 2001
American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Cord Blood Banking
- (Pediatrics, Volume 104, Number 1, July 1999, pp 116-118.)
Leading Cause of Anemia in Preterm Babies is Blood
for Lab Tests - (Pediatrics August
2000; 106: e19)
Do not discard 99.99% of the human placental umbilical cord blood for the sake of stem cells only - by Niranjan Bhattacharya, Surgeon and Superintendent Bijoygarh State Hospital, Calcutta,India Umbilical Cord Whole Blood Transfusion: A Suggested Strategy To Combat Blood Scarcity In Ireland - by Niranjan Bhattacharya, Surgeon and Superintendent Bijoygarh State Hospital, Calcutta,India RELATED ARTICLES
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