Early Advantage Birth Services

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Delayed cord clamping (DCC) is recommended for premature infants to improve blood volume. Most preterm infants are born by cesarean delivery (CD), and placental transfusion may be less effective than in vaginal delivery (VD). We sought to determine whether infants <32 weeks born by CD who undergo umbilical cord milking (UCM) . . . → Read More: Umbilical Cord Milking Versus Delayed Cord Clamping in Preterm Infants