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Re: Criminal Teaching on immediate cord clamping on an infant's From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca) Fri Mar 30 21:22:46 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Criminal Teaching on immediate cord clamping on an infant's pulsating lifeline, the umbilical cord" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Criminal Teaching on immediate cord clamping on an infant's pulsating lifeline, the umbilical cord" DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/30/01 21:44:00, garrys@mindspring.com writes: > > << Is this poster related to Gastaldo, or whatever his name is? > > Shall we debate circumcision? >> > > Before or after clamping of the cord... Hmm, seems to me, if we clamp the > cord REALLY early, the cirumcisions won't bleed as much. What do you think? Oh, har. But it does remind me that when my moms give birth to boys, and the dads cut the cord that I usually have my hand over the little bits to protect them from nervous scissors, and tell the dads not to circumsize their sons whilst they're at it... And speaking of penises and cords... I'm reminded of a birth I did about 2 years ago. I was assisted by a family doc friend of mine, because my partners were at another birth. The baby boy went immediately onto mom's tummy and my buddy immediately threw a blanket over him to dry and warm him. I fished my hand under the blanket to feel the cord pulsations to assess heartrate. I didn't feel a thing (and the baby seemed okay), so was momentarily confused until I realized that I had my fingers on the kid's penis. I whispered, sotto voce, to my friend, who was just beside me, that oops, no wonder I couldn't feel anything pulsing. To which he responded, "Keep your fingers there for much longer and you will..." :-) Good thing I didn't try to clamp it, too. -- Kathi Wilson, RM Ilderton, Ontario, Canada mailto:wilsonk@gtn.on.ca ********************** Thames Valley Midwives 346 Platts Lane, London, Ontario, Canada http://tvm.on.ca mailto:info@tvm.on.ca Next message: Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Criminal Teaching on immediate cord clamping on an infant's pulsating lifeline, the umbilical cord" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Criminal Teaching on immediate cord clamping on an infant's pulsating lifeline, the umbilical cord"

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