Umbilical Cord Clamping: The Hidden Medical Abuse

Written by John O'Sullivan on September 26, 2022. Posted in Current News

Umbilical cord clamping immediately after child birth is common practice in hospitals in the U.S. and Europe. But the prestigious BMJ admits such clamping is ‘injurious’ to babies.

This unrevealed major health issue has been pervading western society for decades and few even know of the repercussions on our children’s long term health. Principia Scientific International researchers are uncovering compelling evidence that umbilical cord clamping should not be done for at least five minutes after birth, according to leading medical experts.

In a survey of 3,500 parents whose children were born in the UK between 2015 and 2017, 31% said that their baby’s cord was clamped less than a minute after they were born. One in five said that their baby’s cord was cut immediately following the birth

That hospitals permit clamping immediately at birth is both unethical and cynical because obstetricians and gynaecologists have long known that essential stem cells and nutrients pass from the placenta to the newborn infant at this crucial moment. The BMJ advises that clamping should not be done until 20 minutes after birth.

Interfering with this natural process, on the grounds of convenience to staff may be considered both barbaric and a dereliction of duty.

Delayed umbilical cord clamping is beneficial for most term and preterm infants, according to a Committee Opinion from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) published in the January issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. [2]

In ‘Umbilical cord clamping after birth’ (BMJ 2007;335:312) [1] the experts tell us:

The cord clamp is not a part of human anatomy or human physiology.
If it is applied before physiological cord closure, it disrupts normal
anatomy and physiology, injuring the child by blocking placental
respiration, and by clamping neonatal blood volume in the placenta.

Placental blood transfusion is an essential component of
physiological birth; it is controlled by the child’s reflexes and
terminated by physiological cord vessel closure. The neonate thus attains
an optimal, physiological blood volume. This additional blood establishes
the pulmonary circulation and activates all other life support organs in
the healthy neonate. Transition from placental to neonatal life support
may be complete within a minute or two, but it may take more than 20
minutes. [3]

Critics have accused hospitals of harvesting the umbilical cord for their own commercial ends, a practice that warrants further scrutiny in a new era of awareness of the wholesale mistrust in government-controlled medicine.

During pregnancy, the umbilical cord vein carries oxygen-rich blood and nutrients from the placenta to the baby, and the arteries return deoxygenated blood and waste products, such as carbon dioxide, to the placenta.

A baby’s blood supply is independent of its mother’s, and remains within this closed circuit throughout pregnancy, labour and birth. As the baby is squeezed through the birth canal or an abdominal incision (if it’s a caesarean birth), a lot of the baby’s blood is pushed back into the placenta. But as the baby emerges, the umbilical cord – if left to pulsate – returns all of this blood to its rightful owner in a few minutes.

The Coventry University Research Blog (CURB) tells us:

“Aside from reducing the risk of iron-deficiency anaemia, delaying clamping by a few minutes has a range of other health benefits, including: a reduced lifetime risk of developing chronic lung disease, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, infection and abnormal tissue growths; a reduced risk of bowel infections, death in premature babies,sepsis and brain haemorrhage in very premature babies; and an increased likelihood of being more sociable and better behaved at age four.”

Babies who have delayed cord clamping also enjoy higher birth weights, compared with babies who have their cords clamped immediately.

Umbilical cord clamping is a controversy that has remained under the news ‘radar’ for too long and Principia Scientific International is engaging with leading medical professionals to bring wider public attention to this issue.

[1] BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39282.440787.80 (Published 16 August 2007)

[2] www.clinicaladvisor.com, Delayed umbilical cord clamping beneficial for infants (December 27, 2016)

[3] Gunther M. The transfer of blood between the baby and the
placenta in the minutes after birth. Lancet 1957;I:1277-1280.

About John O’Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball and Joseph A Olson) of Principia Scientific International (PSI).  John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann in the ‘science trial of the century‘. O’Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new book, Slaying the Virus and Vaccine Dragon.

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