Cord blood is the blood in your baby's umbilical cord and your placenta. It houses potentially lifesaving cells called stem cells, which can develop into mature blood cells, including red blood cells, ...

The umbilical cord delivers vital nutrients from your body to your baby, and ferries away the waste your baby produces. It ...

Homepage news Delayed cord clamping could reduce risk of premature infant death by 66% The authors said that, worldwide, almost 13m babies are born prematurely every year and close to one 1m die ...

A new study shows that delayed cord clamping compared to immediate cord clamping could cut the risk of death among premature babies by half. The extra blood from the placenta and improved ...

Two University of Sydney led studies have given further weight to the benefits of delayed cord clamping, finding waiting for at least 2 minutes to clamp the umbilical cord of premature babies at ...

Delaying cord clamping for this time frame allows for higher distribution of blood to your infant rather than leaving this precious blood in the placenta.

Costakos implemented delayed cord clamping at Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse in 2006 after presenting his research. The process has been around for hundreds of years but was not always ...

In the 1960s, early cord clamping was the norm due to concerns about maternal and infant outcomes, but studies over the decades led to making delayed clamping standard some 50 years later.