DD's took about 5mins to stop pulsing, it was in my birthplan but the MW supported it anyways. DD had a pretty short cord so she was laying a bit lower on my chest, and once it stopped pulsing and the MW was going to clamp it, the ends of the clamp looked like scissor handles, and I kept saying 'no no DH is going to cut the cord' and she kept looking at me then going to clamp it, where I thought she was going to cut it! DH finally goes 'chill out it's just the clamp' ha ha I couldn't see what was going on - felt like a doofus! Placenta took about another 40 mins to come out (naturally).
S' cord only took a few minutes to stop pulsing, and then it was cut. T had a very short cord and to save me from too much discomfort (I had a tear and was sitting on a birthing stool, she was kind of sitting up on my knee, and frankly, it was agony) we clamped and cut it before it stopped. Both times it was in my birth plan; midwives were fine with it. Placenta was delivered without injection, both times while babies fed.
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