If you’re expecting a child, you’re likely learning about the many medical interventions often involved in labor and delivery. Some of these, like epidurals, might be your choice. Others, like an ...

Two new 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 birth could decrease the ...

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 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued new guidelines on deferred umbilical cord clamping in preterm babies, based on evidence showing that such delays save lives.

A treatment to move blood from the umbilical cord into the body of newborns who are limp, pale and with minimal breathing, known as non-vigorous, does not appear to increase the risk of ...

A new study finds that aiming to wait just 60 seconds to clamp the umbilical cord of very premature babies at birth continues to have benefits two years on - decreasing the child's risk of death or ...