i'm just curious to see if anyone knows the TRUTH... i'm in a Medical Office Class and i was going through me book and i saw a picture if it... it was just detached!!!
2007-01-30 07:03:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Once the baby is born AND has begun to breathe on his own there are hormones released that cause the umbilical cord to close down, and the placenta to detach. The placenta come off of the uterine wall and the uterus contracts both to expel it and to close off any bleeding. Lochia is the lining of the uterus being shed, not so much active bleeding.
IF you are dumb enough to cut and clamp the cord immediatly not only do you deny the baby needed blood and potentially oxygen you trap too much blood in the placenta, which can further complicate the placenta being birthed. If you wish to debate the benifits of cord clamping feel free to e-mail me. But this isn't the forum.
So in answer to your question, if you wait until the umbilical cord has closed on it's own nothing happens once you cut the cord, if you ever cut it. If you do not cut it the cord will dry up and drop off as usual, although care should be taken to prevent the placenta from becoming rancid during this time. Salt and air drying for example.
2007-01-30 07:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is delivered with the placenta after the baby is born. It's connected to the baby and the placenta, which is then connected to the uterus. The umbilical cord does not tether the child to the uterus. If a parent wants to, nowadays, they can donate it for research or bank the blood in the cord for future use if needed. Otherwise it's burned with other medical waste.
2007-01-30 07:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's the toddler's umbilical twine no longer the girl's. At beginning the umbilical twine is tied and shrink. the bit related to the toddler shrinks and withers with time to type the navel or abdomen button. the different end is hooked as much as the placenta and springs out with the afterbirth.
2016-11-01 21:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the rest comes out with the afterbirth and is disgarded with medical waste unless the parents choose to use a cord bank.
2007-01-30 07:09:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stays attached to the placenta and when you go through the final stage of labor you deliver it... and if you choose to bank cord blood it's drained then it goes in a bio waste bucket and then to the incinerator... yuck!
2007-01-30 07:11:33 · answer #5 · answered by Lil' Miss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cord is attached at one end to the babay and one end to the placenta which comes out and is discarded
2007-01-30 07:19:39 · answer #6 · answered by cigaro19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little piece stays attached to the baby for a few weeks. It then falls off.
2007-01-30 07:10:41 · answer #7 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it stays attached to the placenta and then it comes out after the baby its called the after birth and i cant be wrong cause i have a kid
2007-01-30 07:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as allways the truth means someone is making money. the whispers i hear is they sell it for "stem cell research". sorry the medical organizations are so cloaked they can get away with anything.
2007-01-30 07:20:43 · answer #9 · answered by swashbuckler82 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's bio-hazard material. It is taken to a company that burns stuff like that and other left over materials from surgeries.
2007-01-30 07:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋