Umbilical cord prolapse is uncommon, occurring in about 1 in 1,000 births. It is dangerous for your baby. One study of over 307 cases of umbilical cord prolapses found that 7% of babies died ...

Nuchal cord: A nuchal cord is when the umbilical cord gets wrapped around your baby’s neck. This condition happens in about 20-35% of full-term single births.

Single-artery umbilical cord problems only happen in around 1% of pregnancies, although the risk increases to 5% for twin pregnancies. A lack of one vessel is called a two-vessel cord.

Typically, your baby’s umbilical cord will detach by two weeks after birth. However, there are natural variations and this can happen earlier or later. Share on Pinterest Jessica Byrum/Stocksy ...

Umbilical cord abnormalities—of which there are roughly seven categories, ranging from cord cysts to entanglements to knots—may account for anywhere from 10 percent to more than 25 percent of ...

We checked out prices from a few private cord blood banks, and the average for the collection and first year of storage will run you about $1500. The annual storage fee is about $350 for cord ...

The umbilical cord samples were collected and preserved immediately after the children's birth. ASD symptoms in these same children were then assessed at 6 years old with the help of their mothers.

There, at the Cord Blood Registry laboratory, or CBR, baby Luca’s umbilical cord blood will be frozen in a metal tank at less than minus 320 degrees, joining almost 900,000 other samples in ...

A second review and meta-analysis, which included data from 47 trials with 6,094 participants, compared umbilical cord milking with immediate clamping less than 45 seconds after birth, between 45 ...