The round or circular cord It is one of the major concerns about childbirth, because as usual, it is scary that the baby may drown, but the truth is that it is quite frequent and usually resolves without major complications.
Between 20 and 40 percent of children are born with turns of cord and most of the time it does not represent any risk to the baby, there are even babies that come with two, three or four turns, depending on the length of the cord (the average is 55 cm.). But, What happens if the cord is tangled in the baby's neck?
The baby moves inside the mother's womb so the cord is wrapped and unrolled around her body, her arm, her leg or her neck, but this does not cause any discomfort in the baby during pregnancy. Only on some occasions can it be seen by ultrasound, which is why it is almost always detected only at the time of delivery.
In childbirth, the doctor can see the return (or turns) of the cord when the baby's head appears, which it is solved with a very simple maneuver: placing the finger between the neck and the cord to undo the circular while the child leaves. The cord is jelly-like and glides easily. If it were not so easy because it was somewhat tight, the cord is clamped and cut while the baby is leaving.
In Babies and more Babies born with a knot in the umbilical cordIn the event that the cord is very tight and that when descending through the birth canal, the blood flow will be tightened, the baby will always be monitored by means of a monitor to detect any sign of fetal distress.
If there are changes in the heart rhythm, a cesarean section will be evaluated, but as we said before, in more than 90 percent of cases the circular cord on the baby's neck It resolves without major complications.
What is uncertain about the return of the cord is that it can become the justification for a caesarean section if the baby does not go down or has alterations in the heart rhythm, when in reality what causes the fetal suffering is not the compression of the cord itself, But another reason.
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