Benefits of a physiological third stage????

[jackrose]

My research and readings agree with femme

delayed cord clamping actually can reduce incidence of anaemia and lead to higher blood volume due to the extra blood that the baby recieves through the cord as it continues pulsing until the placental transfusion is complete when the cord then becomes white. This is one of the benefits of delayed cord clamping.

In addition delaying the clamping of the cord can help avoid PPH in many cases as the placenta has less blood in it (it is in the baby where it belongs) and therefore the uterus can more successfully contract to expel the placenta.

With all that and this

The crying of the baby help to regulate the placental transfusion.

we have to remember that human beings are incredibly marvelously designed - the only problem is we don't trust our own bodies sometimes, do all sorts of things to interfere then get really worried about the outcomes of the interferences. Somehow we blame the natural state of our bodies in the end rather than looking at what the interventions do...