After your baby has been born, you should allow a few minutes for the cord to stop pulsating before the cord is cut. Allowing the cord to stop pulsating will allow your baby more blood from the placenta, which will boost his/her oxygen supply and blood volume.
After the cord is cut you will deliver the placenta. How this happens usually depends on the doctor or midwife. Most like to let it happen naturally, while others will offer an intramuscular injection of an oxytoxic drug in your thigh to get your uterus to contract. Helping your uterus contract to deliver the afterbirth reduces the risk of a postpartum hemorrhage. If you decide to deliver the placenta naturally, this can take up to an hour.
The doctor will check over your placenta after it is delivered to make sure that there were no remains left in the uterus. Retained placenta fragments can cause hemorrhaging (even as late as 6 weeks after birth if it goes undetected).
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