Hi,
Below is an article from Penny Mellors website, which took me back to a lady who attended the Court case at Reading, who approached me outside the Court room and asked if it was the Henderson case. I explained they were on a break, and I said why did she want to know, being suspicious (too many years as a copper), she said ‘Keran Henderson is innocent’. Which hit me in the face a bit, was expecting the other sort of response.
She want on to explain she was a midwife and went into the Cord clamping debate and how it can/does effect their development. So readiEarly cord clamping appears to be the norm, as a mother of 8 children born naturally, there was certainly no delay when clamping my babies, had I known the risks associated with this procedure, I would never have allowed it.
For new readers I have reposted the original research undertaken:
Statistically, it raises a very serious question. Given that in just about every alleged shaken baby case, the medics claim “no underlying blood disorder found” - how does that then reconcile with the findings in the prolific research undertaken into this procedure?
How can it be that early cord clamping is the norm, and in a third of the subjects the babies are anaemic right up until they are six months old, yet this isn’t something that is being found in alleged SBS cases?
Not hypothesis. FACT medically proven, scientifically proven. Yet you would never know because seemingly, in another branch of medicine, they find nothing ……..
I wonder why that is then?
http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0325-00752010000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
SUMMARY
Background. Delayed umbilical cord clamping could increase iron stores and prevent iron deficiency in infants. To test this hypothesis we measured serum ferritin and hemoglobin levels at six months of age in term infants who had participated in a randomized controlled trial, assessing the effect of cord clamping timing on neonatal hematocrit values and clinical outcome. Main outcome measure. Serum ferritin level at six months of age.
Methods. Out of the 276 mothers and their infants that participated in the initial study, 255 (92.4%) were followed up to six months and included in this study. Of these, 86 had their cords clamped within the first 15 seconds (early clamping), 83 at one minute, and 83 at three minutes. The pediatricians in charge of the evaluations during the follow-up period and personnel in charge of the biochemical tests were blinded to the assignment group. In all but 3 infants the ferritin levels and hemoglobin levels were measured at six months of age.
Results. Mothers and infants in the three groups had similar baseline characteristics. Serum ferritin levels were significantly higher in the infants of the three minutes group than in the infants of the early group: 33.2 μg/L vs. 20.9 μg/L (geometric mean ratio: 1.6; 95% CI: 1.2 to 2.11) but no difference was observed in one minute group (25.5 μg/L) vs. early group. There were no significant differences in mean hemoglobin values, 10.6 g/dl (SD 1,1); 10.8 g/dl (SD 0.9) and 10.7 g/dl (SD 1.0) between groups early, one minute, and three minutes, respectively. Although there were no significant differences between groups, the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia (hemoglobin < 10.5 g/dl and ferritin < 9 μg/L) was 3 times more frequent in early clampling group (7.2%) than in three minutes group (2.4%) (RR: 0.30; IC 95%: 0.10-1.60). ng this brought it all back. That lady was very passionate and I feel that when you stand up as a lone voice you can often be seen as the fool…but what if us fools are right and those in power are wrong…