Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors wait ...

The umbilical cord is much more than just a physical connection between you and your baby. It carries life-giving oxygen and ...

Kolkata: Keeping the umbilical cord intact while resuscitating a newborn delivered to a woman with severe pneumonia saved the ...

Giving birth to a child who is unresponsive or struggling to breathe is a harrowing experience. The medical team must quickly cut the umbilical cord and then rush the baby to aid. But taking a few ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters — “textbook perfect,” ...