Deejoy, whatever you decide, make sure your midwife/ob knows about it before hand....I mentioned it to my midwife at a checkup and she immediately went on to tell me why it should be cut blah blah so I presume it's not the done thing?
If they give you the syntocin injection can you still wait until it stops pulsating or not? My midwife ended up saying as long as the baby is above the placenta, it's ok to let it stop pulsing naturally before clamping it. She said something about too many red (or white!) bloodcells entering bubs if bubs was below the placenta?