Results also indicated adolescents ages 12 to 16 in the APP group also
delayed second births significantly longer than the non-APP group.
Not exact matches
They found that babies born via cesarean section have a fraction of a
second delay in their eye movements — suggesting that the
birth experience helps to shape brain development.
Although your body is capable of making breast milk by the end of your
second trimester, the early end of pregnancy, the stress of a premature delivery, and the inability to breastfeed your preemie immediately after
birth, can
delay the production of your breast milk.
Parity,
delayed pushing, use of epidural analgesia, maternal body mass index,
birth weight, occiput posterior position, and fetal station at complete dilation all have been shown to affect the length of the
second stage of labor (26).
«The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends a
delay in umbilical cord clamping for all healthy infants for at least 30 - 60
seconds after
birth given the numerous benefits to most newborns.»
Several years ago, in a clinical study comprising 400 newborns, Dr Ola Andersson and colleagues demonstrated that the risk of iron deficiency at the age of four months was considerably lower in infants whose umbilical cords were clamped and cut three minutes after
birth («
delayed cord clamping», DCC) than in those whose cords were removed within ten
seconds («early cord clamping», ECC).
I unfortunately wasn't able to get
delayed cord clamping with my
second birth as the umbilical cord had a knot (a very rare event!)