Your baby’s umbilical cord should have two arteries and one vein. It is often referred to as a three-vessel cord. Sometimes one of the arteries is missing, usually the left one. If your ...

What is your baby's umbilical cord? The umbilical cord starts to ... A very small number of babies have only one umbilical artery instead of two. This condition occurs more often when you're ...

After birth, your baby’s umbilical cord is cut. It becomes a stump ... It contains three blood vessels: one vein and two arteries. A substance called Wharton’s jelly forms the bulk of the ...

Our expert, Dr Welma Lubbe, responds: If there is only 1 artery in the umbilical cord, the baby should be examined carefully by ultrasound to make sure there are no other abnormalities (e.g. heart or ...