Such a natural moment: the baby was born, he is shown to his mother, everyone is smiling, and the concentrated nurse immediately puts two pairs of forceps on the umbilical cord, then cuts it and presses it from the side of the baby clothespin. Voila - the process is over. It remains to wait for the third stage of childbirth, until the placenta is "born" - and you can say "thank you all".
But we will still scroll through this "video" and return to the frame of cutting the umbilical cord. If earlier (in Soviet times) it was cut in the first seconds after the birth of a baby, but today it is customary (and according to the protocols) to clamp the umbilical cord when it fully pulsates and "quiet". Why and who needs it? We will analyze from the point of view of the baby.
What happens to the baby?
You probably didn't know: moving through the narrow birth canal, the born baby “loses” up to 20% of the blood by reverse blood flow through the umbilical cord. Simply put, this blood is as if "squeezed" out of him.
Nature has come up with an optimal mechanism when, after birth, the child restores blood loss - he receives the necessary blood from his mother through the umbilical cord. While the umbilical cord is pulsating - and nature has given it about 5-10 minutes for this, blood flows to the baby.
Why wait for "stop"?
The time allotted for pulsation is a period of a kind of insurance for the baby. If there were complications during childbirth or the baby’s lungs did not open on time and the baby did not begin to breathe normally, then the incoming blood from the umbilical cord will provide the child's brain with oxygen - nerve cells will not suffer from hypoxia, which, as a rule, can adversely affect development child.
What about today?
Today, according to the obstetric protocol, the umbilical cord is clamped to newborn babies after the end of its pulsation. Looks like bingo! - work on the bugs is done. But not everything is as rosy as we would like.
According to the same obstetric protocol, women at the time of the birth of the baby (that is, when they cannot control the activities of doctors neither the mother herself nor the partner in childbirth) introduce 2 cubes of oxytocin, which leads to rapid inhibition of the uteroplacental circulation. Simply put, here we treat, and here... You can continue on your own.
We hope that this collision in childbirth will soon be resolved in favor of the mother and baby. What to do now? Discuss the nuance with the injection with the doctor and ask the partner in childbirth to be extremely careful at the moment of "X".
