Huge Benefits of Delayed Cord Clamping

My friend is a part of the team at Vintage Doula, a birth doula service in Rapid City, South Dakota. They recently posted this informative piece on Delayed Cord Clamping on their Facebook feed. I highly recommend reading this.

We were able to briefly delay cord clamping with our first two babies and aim to delay even longer with subsequent babies.

Excerpt:

Nearly one-third of a baby's total blood volume resides in the placenta at birth. Half of that blood is transfused into the baby by 1 minute of age. By 3 minutes, more than 90% of the transfusion is complete. (1)...  Gravity does matter, but mainly in terms of the speed of the placental transfusion. A baby held below the level of the placenta will receive a full transfusion in about 3 minutes; one held above the placenta (e.g., a baby in immediate skin-to-skin contact) will also receive a full transfusion - it just takes a little longer (about 5 minutes). (1,13)

Read about biological benefits here:
https://www.lamaze.org/Connecting-the-Dots/common-objections-to-delayed-cord-clamping-whats-the-evidence-say