She cuts the umbilical cord with a stick, and ties it with her own hair.

However, still, as you can see, it has a cord, umbilical cord. So, we're still using an external power source and external computation.

So far, a total number of 16 successful surgical operations for hernia have been carried out and 32 cases of dental care attended in government hospitals in Lungi and Freetown.

Live birth The complete expulsion or extraction from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, of a product of conception which, after such separation, breathes or shows some other sign of life such as a heartbeat, pulsation of the umbilical cord or effective movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut and whether or not the placenta is attached.

It thus permits and encourages research on adult and umbilical cord stem cells, which has already obtained many positive results without raising any of the ethical issues related to cloning.

Other practices are the use of indigenous objects like the buho or bamboo in cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn baby instead of unnatural objects, like scissors, the use of which, it is believed, will influence the child to be disloyal to the family and the hanging of dried umbilical cord pusod of a newborn baby beneath the doorway or window in the belief that this will keep the infant safe from accident or harm.

That wait to insure strategy makes sense if the medical condition is a chronic disease like diabetes or a condition requiring surgery, like cancer or a hernia. In either case, the individual would be able to purchase insurance after he or she receives the diagnosis.

I step off, I'm standing on the platform, and I feel my index finger in the first scar that I ever got, from my umbilical cord, and then around that, is traced the last scar that I got from my surgeon, and I think that, that chance encounter with those kids on the street with their knives

Cutting the umbilical cord in a relationship of aid dependency is never easy, and there is no reason to expect that it will be any different with Greece. Phasing out transfers, even in a considered and systematic way, works only when the recipient is determined to put in place the measures necessary to survive without assistance.

One in five human genes is now patented, even though the human genome might be thought to be our common heritage. And although Boyle doesn t mention this latest development, umbilical cord blood, taken in the final stage of labor, is now banked by profit making firms as a potential though unlikely source of stem cells for the baby.

2. Some of the traditional health practices based on superstitious beliefs are the covering of the navel of the newborn baby with sand for the purpose of quick healing and the burying of the placenta and umbilical cord of a newborn baby together with a pencil and paper in the belief that the act will make the baby intelligent.

This is a photo that I made showing one of these pups that's only about five or seven days old still has a little bit of the umbilical cord on its belly that has fallen in because of the thin ice, and the mother is frantically trying to push it up to breathe and to get it back to stable purchase.

Foetal death Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy death is signalled by the fact that, after such separation, the foetus does not breathe or show any sign of life, such as a heartbeat, pulsation of the umbilical cord or effective movement of voluntary muscles.