I must be missing something because if
 a  
mom is getting drugs during labor and delivery, aren't they already
 passing  
through the cord during the entire process? Does this really avoid
 transfer, or  
just avoid the continuing transfer from that time on?
 
What am I not getting about this?
 


I think the issue may be this: when the baby is still inside the mother, and blood is passing back and forth between mother and baby through the cord, the mother's system helps to break down the drugs and keep the level in the baby's system lower. But when the baby is born, if the corn is allowed to pulsate, you are increasing the amount of blood - containing whatever drugs the mother had - going into the baby's system, but the blood won't flow back to the mother to have those drugs broken down. So along with the extra blood, the baby gets extra drugs which it then has to break down by itself - a challenge for a newborn. 

Teresa Pitman

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