Cord Clamping

I saw this great blog article by an OB/GYN about delayed cord clamping, a practice that has been done for who knows how long by the known world and continues to be done by most midwives. But now that OB's are talking about it hopefully it will be something that will be looked at more and accepted more by Dr's. Recently I had a client tell me that her Dr wouldn't "allow" delayed cord clamping, simply stating that it was extremely dangerous to the baby. Well, during the birth, his partner who attended the birth was MORE than happy to allow the cord to finish pulsing before cutting. When we told him that his partner was adamantly opposed to it he said "No way, really? He must've been joking" Oy.

Here is the article. I am going to paste below my favorite part of the article :)

I wonder at times why delayed cord clamping has not become the standard already; why by and large we have not heeded the literature. It is sad to say that I believe it is because the champions of this practice have not been doctors, but midwives, and sometimes we are influenced by prejudice. Clearly, midwives and doctors tend to have some different ideas about how labor should be managed, but in the end data is data. We championed evidence based medicine, but tend to ignore evidence when it comes from the wrong source, which is unfair. It is fair to critique the research and the methods used to write it, but it shouldn’t matter who the author is. In this case, Mercer and other midwives have done the world a favor by scientifically addressing this issue, and their data deserves serious consideration.