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How can the umbilical cord have a knot?

I have heard that while being pregnant the umbilical cord could have a knot but how does that happen?And what happens to the baby?

Public Comments

1. It means the kid will be a boy scout
2. lmao@ payday.. Nah but seriously it can have a knot if its an active baby and sometimes it can get wrapped up around the legs and the neck and so forth..
3. It happens when the baby is still small enough to move freely in the amniotic fluid. If baby is an acrobat, he/she may be able to actually create a knot by swimming through a loop in the cord. I have seen a cord with two knots in it. This is not usually a problem until birth, when the cord is stretched as the baby descends down the birth canal and tightens the knot, cutting off the blood supply. A symptom of this could be a decreased heart rate during labor & delivery. Most babies born with a knot are perfectly fine and it is a minor problem.