Birth Time & cutting a nevel: Some Views

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Respected all Gurus and all members & Mr. T V Rao,

 

(Dear T V Rao, Received your email. Thanks. Giving my views on this

issue.)

 

As a practising surgeon (and husband of a practsing gynaecologist &

obstetrician) I have my views in this issue as given below.

 

 

I feel the FIRST BREATH should be taken as the birth time and not

cutting of the umbilical cord.

 

Doctors usually wait till cord pulsations stop before dividing the

umbilical cord. The pulsations are felt or seen to naked eye.

(However there is no visible crystalisation of the cord.)

 

Now there could be two scenerios in live babies as given below.

 

1. Baby starts breathing while the cord is still NOT cut.:

This is the usual scene.

Here if you consider the pulsations which are due to the child's

heart, they are there since last 34 Weeks as Cardiac activity starts

at about 6 Weeks. What NEW thing has happened to give him (the child)

this new LIFE in this external world, is his FIRST BREATH.

 

2. The other scenerio, though less frequent is that the baby does not

breath immediately and would require some active resuscitation. Here

we cut the cord (i.e. WE DO NOT WAIT TILL PULSATIONS TO DISAPPEAR)

and give some active resuscitative measures to the child. After

successful resuscitation the child starts breathing. When it starts

BREATHING, we as doctors feel happy as we could save that child. Here

you must have noticed that the BREATH again is the main deciding

factor determining the real life.

 

 

Thanking,

 

Yours,

 

Dr. Rajiv C. Karekar

 

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