Umbilical Cord Round the Child's Neck as a Cause of Delayed Labour, and Sometimes of Infantile Death

Delayed labour may be due to many factors ; therefore it is not surprising that different opinions are held as to whether circumvolution of the neck by the funis is ever really a retarding agent to the completion of parturition or not. So far as I know, most writers on obstetrics assign little importance to the condition. They tell us that the normal length of the cord is so and so, that with the cord circuinvoluting the neck there is usually increased length, and that even if this is not so, there is generally a free cord of ten or twelve