I just want to know what happens if a baby is delivered and the placenta is still attached inside the mother and the cord is not cut.
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Even if the cord is not cut, the baby is separated from the mother soon after being born.
The umbilical cord is attached to a temporary organ called the placenta. During birth, the flow of blood through the placenta and umbilical cord stops. This is kind of like how if you get a cut, the blood stops on it’s own. If the doctor cuts the umbilical cord right away once the baby is born, that makes it easier to check over the baby and give extra care if the baby needs it, like helping the baby to breathe. But they could wait a while too.
When everything is going normally, about 30 minutes after the baby is born, the placenta separates from the mother and also leaves the body, the same way the baby did. So even if the doctor does not cut the cord right away, the baby is eventually separated from the mother.
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