(ICC) Immediate Cord Clamping at Birth

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This is something I have suspected all along, due to my own case or personal circumstances with Early Infantile Autism due to severe asphyxiation during birth and delivery.

http://www.autism-end-it-now.org/index.html

What do you think?

I'm very sceptical, and I don't see how you're making a connection between cord clamping and severe asphyxiation during birth and delivery.

They are separate issues but both occurred in my case.

I know very little about this, but I do know my older daughter (who works as a midwife's birth assistant) says the baby should be allowed to get all it can from the placenta before the cord is cut.

I wonder what the statistics are for autism among those born naturally in settings that allow some time before clamping or cord cutting -- I understand water births allow a time interval:

http://www.midwiferyservices.org/childb ... eryone.htm

There does seem to be some medical argument for delaying cord clamping:

http://academicobgyn.com/2009/12/03/del ... bstetrics/
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance ... 2/abstract

Other links can be found here:
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/cordIssues.html

Interesting theory.