Background: Aim of the current study was to evaluate effect delayed cord clamping on hemoglobin level among newborns and look for any adverse effects following clamping. Methods: Total 60 were enrolled in randomly allocated either control (early 15 secs) cases (delayed 3 mins). Samples collected labor room, during birth check hemoglobin, billirubin hematocrit levels two groups. Follow up data p...

The timing of umbilical cord clamping during the third stage of labor has been a point of contention for many years. The estimated combined blood-volume of the fetal and placental unit is 105-110 ml/ kg [1,2]. Two thirds of this volume is in the fetal circulation and one third in the placenta. In his publication “Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life” originally published in 1794, Erasmus Darwi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Delayed cord clamping (DCC) is recommended for premature infants to improve blood volume. Most preterm infants are born by cesarean delivery (CD), and placental transfusion may be less effective than in vaginal delivery (VD). We sought to determine whether infants <32 weeks born by CD who undergo umbilical cord milking (UCM) have higher measures of systemic blood flow t...

Objective of the study was to compare the effect of umbilical cord milking (UCM) and delayed cord clamping (DCC) on hematological parameters (serum ferritin & hemoglobin) at 6 weeks of life in term neonates. It was a Randomized Controlled Trail conducted at a teaching hospital in North India from August 2012 to August 2013. Babies born at > 36 weeks of gestation were randomized in two groups, U...

Historically, in midwifery and obstetric care, the umbilical cord was not usually clamped until all pulsation of the cord had ceased. This is now referred to as delayed cord clamping or DCC (not clamping umbilical cord before two minutes of life). During the last one hundred years with changes in the ways women give birth, especially the shift toward hospital based birth in the Western world, i...

CONTEXT With few exceptions, the umbilical cord of every newborn is clamped and cut at birth, yet the optimal timing for this intervention remains controversial. OBJECTIVE To compare the potential benefits and harms of late vs early cord clamping in term infants. DATA SOURCES Search of 6 electronic databases (on November 15, 2006, starting from the beginning of each): the Cochrane Pregnancy...