Effect of Delayed Cord Clamping on Respiratory Infection–Related Encounters in the First 6 Months of Life in an Urban Community Hospital
Ronique Gordon, Neelam Neupane, Leidi Pedraza Gonzalez, Luane Bloomfield, Tashalee McGrath-Blagrove, R. Jonathan Robitsek, Shirley Pinero-Bernardo, Lourdes Cohen, Lily Q. Lew · 2025
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Ronique Gordon and eight co-authors ask whether a short wait before clamping a newborn's cord pays off months later, in a 2025 study. Waiting half a minute to a minute gives the baby extra blood rich in stem cells and immune proteins. The team reviewed charts of full-term babies born in 2022 at one city hospital. About a third had the wait, and the rest were clamped at once.
Babies in the wait group came back to the emergency room with breathing infections far less often in their first six months. They were also admitted to hospital less, and fewer showed the yellow tint of a strained liver. Stays, when they happened, lasted about the same in both groups. The authors read the results as one more reason to keep the brief wait as standard care for healthy newborns.
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| CREATOR | Ronique Gordon, Neelam Neupane, Leidi Pedraza Gonzalez, Luane Bloomfield, Tashalee McGrath-Blagrove, R. Jonathan Robitsek, Shirley Pinero-Bernardo, Lourdes Cohen, Lily Q. Lew |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |