Helping premature babies get ahead
Monday, August 31st, 2009
URI professor Judith Mercer talks about the benefits of delaying umbilical cord clamping for very low birth weight babies. Delaying for just 30-45 seconds at birth causes less bleeding in babies’ brains, and fewer infections, and the babies nursed better, were warmer, and cried less.
Duration : 0:0:58
Being Dad DVD - Premature birth