Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now ...

WHO also recommends delayed umbilical cord clamping, which is not earlier ... effects of delayed cord clamping on bilirubin ...

In light of alcohol's limited effect on decreasing colonization, and its deleterious effect of prolonging cord separation time, it is not recommended as a routine treatment for umbilical cord care.

NEW DELHI: Prakash and Sarita (name changed), a couple from Haryana, had their first baby by normal delivery in ... recently with the help of the umbilical cord - a flexible, tubular formation ...

Methods: We performed a randomized controlled trial investigating effect of early (< 10 sec) versus delayed (>180 sec) umbilical cord clamping in 400 full-term normal deliveries. Blood sampling ...