| Decades ago, this might have been a problem because women could be left in labour for days and the baby might effectively have strangled itself with a tight cord. Today, however for precisely reasons such as this, the baby is monitored throughout your labour in order to pick up any distress at the earliest moment. Added to this, nowadays labours do not go on indefinitely. Once you the diagnosis of established labour is made, there is a timescale within which you would be expected to deliver. If, as your baby is being born, it is found that the cord is wrapped around the neck, you will be asked to breathe through the urge to push and the midwife will cut the cord to allow the baby to deliver without the cord becoming unduly tight. |
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