Dear Friends:
 
Sam's post about the differences in the life of the cord pulsing after  birth 
reminded me of a story.
 
In another life, I was apprenticed to a midwife who did nothing but  
homebirths. Most often, the cord would stop pulsing on its own within 5 minutes  after 
birth. Except this one time, when the baby just didn't start breathing for  a 
l o n g time, maybe 15 minutes (it felt longer). Skin to skin of course.  
Massage, and talking to the open-eyed, stunned baby eventually brought him to  
breathing. Meanwhile the cord stayed open, pumping and pulsing away.
 
When else in life do we have a double support system? This baby, as with  
Sam's baby, stayed oxygenated as a result of that marvelous cord.
 
How many babies loose that support prematurely when the cord is cut right  
away? Intervention as in assembly-line practice doesn't help with life  passages.
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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