Re: malpractice questionnaire
From: Bernard Cristalli (bcrist@club-internet.fr)
Thu Jun 28 07:39:46 2007
Right.
Don't milk the whole cord, only a bit, the portion you anyway empty
before cutting.
Just empty it toward the child.
Bernard
R. Daniel Braun a écrit :
> Just remember that this can put some premies into heart failure.
>
> Dan
>
> On 6/28/07, *Bernard Cristalli* <bcrist@club-internet.fr
> <mailto:bcrist@club-internet.fr>> wrote:
>
> Easy.
> You have to "milk" the cord toward the baby before cutting it.
> That's a most simple autotransfusion. Anyway, when you leave the
> baby on
> the mom's stomach above the placenta it's the child who transfuses his
> placenta.
> BC
>
> ljmidwife@aim.com <mailto:ljmidwife@aim.com> a écrit :
> > So the malpractice carrier is implying that you need to obtain cord
> > blood gases on every baby?
> > That means that the cord must be cut ASAP after the birth to obtain
> > the needed cord section.
> > How do they square this with the emerging research which recommends
> > delaying cord cutting for 2 minutes to allow blood in the cord and
> > placenta to be transferred to the baby's circulation to prevent
> > newborn anemia?
> >
> > It would seem they are requiring you to create a situation that
> could
> > be harmful to the baby.
> >
> > Linda Johnson,
> > CNM
> > www.mothersownbirth.com <http://www.mothersownbirth.com>
> > Temperance, MI
> > 1-866-920-8100
> >
> > "Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse.
> > Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable."
> > --Nigerian saying
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