"His new son's navel string and little war shield."

She felt as if the navel string that had connected its frail little body with hers had not been broken.

There was a great deal of blood and, while the man tried to stanch the bleeding, the baby strangled in its navel string."

They cut his navel string and kohled his eyelids to strengthen his eyes, and gave him over to the nurses and nursery governesses, naming him Ajib, the Wonderful.

"Oh, she conceives right enough, but she can carry the child no more than a moon or two, and the one she brought to birth bled to death when his navel string was cut," Uther said grimly.

I might mention that, according to the custom for female babies, the navel string of my sister Nine Reed had been planted, not quite two years earlier, beneath the hearth in that room where we both were born.

They gave me the child's navel string, then went back into the nursery to dip One Grass in cold water, to swaddle her and to subject her to the midwife's cautionary and instructive harangue.

In Canadian law, under section 223 of the Criminal Code of Canada, a fetus is a "human being ... when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother whether or not it has completely breathed, it has an independent circulation or the navel string is severed."

It would have been his umbilical cord with the rest of the world.

It was all but over; the umbilical cord bad been cut.

Think about whether you want to bank your baby's umbilical cord blood for possible future use.

As the father it was Richard's job to cut the umbilical cord.

But did not appear to cut the umbilical cord until he moved to Washington in 1989.

"A television is sort of like your umbilical cord to life," she said.

"It is very difficult to cut the umbilical cord," one woman said.

And these lines are the umbilical cord for a human being alone among the stars.

Four days after the birth of the baby, its umbilical cord is cut.

When the mother leaves the hospital, the umbilical cord is given to her.

The umbilical cord brought him air, security, and close scrutiny.

"From up there I could see it had a long umbilical cord and a clean body."

How do I care for my baby's umbilical cord stump?

I watched them cut the umbilical cord when each of my three children was born.

He said the cut in the umbilical cord was jagged.

And for some reason the baby's umbilical cord had not yet been tied off.

Newborn baby, with part of umbilical cord and some blood.

It has to be in the exact right place, like an umbilical cord.

She wondered if it was an umbilical cord to the surface.

The baby was lightly holding the umbilical cord with one hand.

It is time for us to cut the umbilical cord."

Bleeding that goes on for a long time after the umbilical cord is cut.

So the umbilical cord is cut off and tied shut.

This is where you were attached to your mother by the umbilical cord.

The umbilical cord must not be clamped and cut too soon.