Citations:navel string


 * 1671, Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book or the Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered, London, page 4:
 * ... if the child seem full of life and spirits, then stop the navel-string near the Navel that no blood nor vital spirits go back, and that will keep the child strong as it is; ...
 * 1803, W. Marson, letter in The [London] Medical and Physical Journal, vol. 10, London, page 433:
 * I then secure the navel string and give the child to the nurse, when I again apply to the funis, and find the placenta waiting for me either at the os externum, in the vagina, or so as to be brought away directly or in a minute or two afterwards...
 * 2007, Justine Siegemund, The Court Midwife, University of Chicago Press, page 163:
 * I need to recall the navel string again because you said that when there is a lot of room when the children are not curled up too tight, the navel string can easily come forth in front of the child.
 * 2011, Geoffrey Howse, Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Barnsley, Casemate Publishers, originally published 2007, page 75:
 * The navel string had evidently not been separated by a surgeon or midwife; and was not tied, but had apparently been torn.