article_snippet.sent: Amanda Burleigh was convinced that clamping the umbilical cord within seconds of delivery – shutting off the blood supply from the placenta – was wrong.
article_snippet.sent: Since the 1950s, when doctors and midwives started giving women a hormonal injection to reduce the risk of haemorrhage, doctors and midwives have clamped Cord within seconds of birth.
article_snippet.sent: But Ms Burleigh, a midwife at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, believed Ms Burleigh, a midwife at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was unnatural to clamp Cord when Cord was still visibly pulsating with blood.
article_snippet.sent: We all clamp Cord within seconds of the baby being born, but We all are doing Cord without any evidence about whether Cord’s good or bad for the baby.
article_snippet.sent: ' Amanda Burleigh contacted other medics, including obstetrician Dr David Hutchon, and together the group amassed evidence that stopping the blood flow so early could be harmful.
article_snippet.sent: One study showed immediate cord-clamping could deprive a baby of a third of One study blood stock – enough to fill a medium-size wine glass.
article_snippet.sent: There is also growing evidence that immediate cord-clamping can be particularly harmful for premature babies.
article_snippet.sent: NICE now states that doctors and midwives should not routinely clamp the cord
article_snippet.sent: the cord should be clamped within five minutes, but left longer if the mother requests.
article_snippet.sent: There is also growing evidence that immediate cord-clamping can be particularly harmful for premature babies .
article_snippet.sent: Some still believed the theory that immediate clamping reduced the risk of mothers haemorrhaging, Dr Hutchon said, even though a 2013 study found a 2013 study made no difference.
article_snippet.sent: In 20 or 30 years I think we will look back on immediate cord-clamping and think, “What were we doing?
highlights_snippet.sent: Amanda Burleigh was convinced clamping cord immediately was wrong .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Cord shouldn't be routinely clamped ‘earlier than one minute from the birth' 