How to Use umbilical cord in a Sentence

umbilical cord

noun
  • Each time, the baby’s legs were crossed or the umbilical cord was in the way.
    Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In the blur, there was alarming talk of the umbilical cord.
    Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Well, the mother seal turned around and the umbilical cord was still there.
    Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The March of Dimes refers to this as a single artery umbilical cord.
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 18 July 2019
  • The two doulas stayed on the phone with the couple to help with the afterbirth and cutting the umbilical cord.
    Sara Smart, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The umbilical cord attached to Twin A, the girl they’d named Maia, had slipped out of the uterus and into the birth canal.
    Eva Holland, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • My son has passed away from a true knot in his umbilical cord.
    refinery29.com, 31 July 2021
  • Both were fine and healthy when EMS arrived to cut the umbilical cord.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • About a dozen people were in the bathroom when John cut the umbilical cord.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Paramedics cut the umbilical cord and took the baby to the hospital.
    Ashley May, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
  • Roberts was there when Williams was born and cut her umbilical cord.
    Cathie Anderson, sacbee, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The little boy, half buried in the dirt, was so fresh that his umbilical cord was still attached.
    Angela Helm, The Root, 22 May 2018
  • The umbilical cord was clamped twice and cut away from the placenta.
    Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Once it’s all been expelled, wrap it in a towel and put it in a bowl near the mom, as it’s still attached to the umbilical cord.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Some bury a baby’s umbilical cord to affirm their ties to the land.
    The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In that case, when the baby fell, its umbilical cord got tangled around a branch.
    Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The antibodies were also found in the umbilical cord blood and breast milk of all women who were part of the study, the study found.
    al, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Indeed, in the US, the practice of storing umbilical cord blood is steadily on the rise.
    Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2020
  • It’s attached to the mom’s uterus and feeds oxygen and nutrients to the baby through the umbilical cord.
    Ariel Hart, ajc, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Their daughter emerged, the umbilical cord coiled twice around her neck.
    Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • The rocker jumped on a plane and made it in time for Sailor's birth, even cutting his grandson's umbilical cord.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
  • Owens called 911 and helped clamp the baby’s umbilical cord using a string.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • But two things tend to happen when an umbilical cord is cut.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Mori guided the baby girl into the world and into his arms, as the father cut the umbilical cord.
    Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Once the umbilical cord is removed, the vessels close up.
    Melissa Badamo, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • Jackson was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck four times and got no oxygen to his brain.
    Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The delivery took place on their porch, with the help of the neighbors, who used a heated kitchen knife to cut the umbilical cord, in a year that may or may not have been 1987.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Carter shared the news of their son's arrival with a photo of himself cutting the umbilical cord.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Guards came some time later and called paramedics after seeing blood from the delivery and found the baby with the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 July 2024
  • The sheriff's office, which initially responded to the scene, said that the baby was wrapped in a jacket and that its umbilical cord was still attached.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 July 2024

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