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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Placenta & Umbilical Wire Defined: Features, Dangers & Start Details with Dr. Jessica Vernon


A previous weblog submit about nuchal cords (when the umbilical wire wraps round child’s neck) sparked numerous concern and confusion, particularly round the concept this might “strangle” child. On this episode, we take a deeper take a look at what’s actually taking place; we discover the function of the placenta, frequent points that may come up, how nuchal cords and true knots type, and what occurs to the placenta and chord as soon as child is born.

On this episode of Yoga | Start | Infants, I communicate with Dr. Jessica Vernon. Dr. Jessica is is a mother of two and a board-certified OBGYN for over a decade. She is an Affiliate Medical Director in addition to the Director of Psychological Well being at Oula, a midwifery-led ladies’s well being startup in NYC. 

Understanding how brilliantly the physique capabilities throughout being pregnant can convey a lot reassurance. We hope this episode helps you’re feeling knowledgeable, grounded, and assured!

On this episode you’ll study:

  • About Dr. Jessica and what led you to Obstetrics?
  • What the function of the placenta and the umbilical wire is, and once they type throughout being pregnant
  • Widespread points that may come up with the placenta, comparable to placenta previa, placenta accreta, or placental abruption
  • How placental issues are usually identified and monitored all through being pregnant
  • Whether or not Dr. Jessica has seen a rise in placenta previa in her time as an OB/GYN, and what she thinks contributes to this
  • What occurs if somebody is identified with a low-lying placenta earlier in being pregnant, and if it normally resolves by itself
  • How frequent nuchal chords are, if they’re normally harmful, and the way the situation is resolved
  • Different umbilical wire issues, like true knots or wire prolapse, and the way they’re dealt with
  • How suppliers monitor the well being and performance of the umbilical wire throughout being pregnant and labor
  • What occurs to the placenta and umbilical wire after the newborn is born
  • Whether or not or not there are any crimson flags throughout the third stage of labor that require rapid medical consideration
  • Dr. Jessica’s ideas on delayed wire clamping and the way it impacts the newborn
  • One ultimate tip or piece of recommendation Dr. Jessica wish to supply new and expectant dad and mom
  • The place you will discover her work

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About Dr. Jessica:

Dr. Jessica Vernon is a mother of two and a board-certified OBGYN with an emphasis on well being fairness and perinatal psychological well being. With over a decade of medical expertise, Dr. Vernon has cared for hundreds of individuals all through their reproductive years.

She has been a voice within the media, contributing to many podcasts and articles associated to her specialty, and not too long ago revealed her first ebook, Then Comes Child: An Sincere Dialog about Start, Postpartum, and the Complicated Transition to Parenthood.

In her present function at Oula, she is an Affiliate Medical Director in addition to the Director of Psychological Well being. On this function, she is working to broaden entry to emotional wellbeing and psychological well being assist for Oula sufferers.

Dr. Vernon is the previous Director of Perinatal Psychological Well being at NYU Langone OB/GYN the place she spearheaded the event of an built-in perinatal psychological well being program within the OB/GYN school group apply, in addition to the previous Medical Director for Perinatal Psychological Well being at Hey Jane, the place she launched a complete digital perinatal psychological well being program. She can also be a board member of Postpartum Assist Worldwide (PSI).

Join with Dr. Jessica: 

Oula: Dr. Jessica Vernon, MD

Instagram: @dr.jessicavernon

Guide: Then Comes Child: An Sincere Dialog about Start, Postpartum, and the Complicated Transition to Parenthood

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