Prime targets for cord blood are large babies, mostly, during c-sections. Past research testifies large babies tolerate the quicker clamping then do smaller babies. False medical reasons are given for immediately clamping the premature babies. Premature babies just happen to have more valuable Mother cells, (cord stem cells) then a full-term baby. I would think they would go to cord blood banks, with or without the parents consent. All babies, all sizes, whenever born, are being risked to hasty clamping. NO discrimination, in the size or gestation period of the baby, in most instances. Most parents will not say anything, after being humiliated and conned in child birth. But when we have no complaints, the medical malpractice and the corruption will continue.
The Mother cells, sought after by science researchers, are the cord stem cells to be used in experimental research to attempt to treat disease. The diseases are likely rooted, originally in the bad birth practices. Hasty clamping, currently, a trend, on an international scheme. See Hole in the Heart .
The facts of early clamping, have proven a baby's tolerance or will to survive. The science research has indicated even babies deprived of 20 to 50 percent total blood volume will survive if revived, quickly . The facts are a baby deprived of 20 percent total blood volume can go into shock and die. When they do die, there is NO investigation. This now is particularly if drugs are used and the baby is a stillborn. I guess that is what you call planning of things done decently and in order.
The government controls who will or will not be investigated as to cause of death. Involved is the Attorney General Department, who govern over the Coroner's Act. This Act, in British Columbia, Canada, was changed recently. Now, the deaths of children in the womb, particularly, if drugs were involved and their use by a licensed medical person are not investigated, as a likely contributing factor in the death, if not the actual cause.
These drugs to quicken labor are actually akin to abortion drugs. But the expecting mother, wanting her child, and a healthy child, is NOT so informed of those side-effects of drugs offered to her or even imposed on her during labor. But the blood from her stillborn child, in some situations, can still be expropriated/salvaged to be used in science research, along with aborted babies' blood and organs, too.
So why did the government have abortions done in children's hospitals? Seems, to me, it was convenient when aborted babies blood separated into components like hormones could be put to good use, quickly. I wonder how many mothers know they are being exploited in being offered a quick hasty abortion. Many abortions following questionable and not absolute assured tests, their baby "may" be defective. Such tests are done by inserting a needled into the mother's womb and taking fluid and/or tissue out. The tests are NOT conclusive but older women fear their child will be defective. The would-be-mothers, are led to believe the abortion was all for the best, and the baby too???
Unless a mother is prepared to abort her baby and give its blood and organs to science research, her body actually exploited for this purpose, she ought to stay away from testing. If the would-be-mother started her pregnancy with a drug free body, and her spouse had a drug free body, and they followed good nutrition, they are likely to have a healthy baby, as nature intended. They now need to know how to have a healthy birth experience, positive for both mother and child. As it is, I ask, "How many ways can women be conned? Let the medical societies and associations count the ways, eh!
Of the surviving babies, tested for their tolerance, many will survive with assistance of oxygen administration, some with blood expanders, and some with both. All these are added costs to the health care. Most of those higher costs are unnecessary if proper birth procedures were being used. That is close to natural birth process, as possible, and the medical person locked outside the door of a rented hospital room, invited in, only if absolutely necessary, and the assurance of no clamp in their pockets.
Those babies, violated by the clamp, and getting blood expanders, such as Ringer's Lactate, have risks of allergic reactions, or disease being introduced into their body. The baby's whole blood, trapped in the placenta, will be likely taken, expropriated, so to-speak, by the hospital administration staff and used for others, not necessarily for the own owner's needs. See the Chow Case-Law .
In fact, the American Association of Pediatrics (APP) discourages the storage of the placenta blood for the infant's future needs. It does not discourage hasty clamping, but if done, but directs immediate use of the blood in public cord blood banks.