Your baby’s umbilical cord is his lifeline, connecting him to your placenta ... This may leave the vessels more vulnerable to kinking or compression, which may disrupt the flow of blood or nutrients ...

Cord compression happens in about one in 10 deliveries ... which is most likely if the baby can't be moved into the proper position. Umbilical cord prolapse happens more often when a fetus ...

Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now ...

My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

A mum whose friend's death from leukaemia prompted her to bank stem cells from her newborn's umbilical cord has described it as a "back-up" which has brought her reassurance. Natalie Harrop ...