Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping: Beneficial or Doesn't Matter

I know this isn't Paleo but it goes along with the "primal" way of doing things.

Here is a very simple explanation of why not cutting the umbilical cord right away is beneficial to baby:

I also thought this next video was interesting.  It's 15min long so here are some good points he makes if you don't want to watch the whole thing:

The umbilical cord is the baby's oxygen source inside the mom.  As long as the placenta is attached oxygen rich blood is still being delivered to the baby and breathing solely through the respiratory system (lungs) is not a necessity.  By cutting the cord while it is still filled with blood (pulsating) we are cutting the primary oxygen source that the infant has been relying on for 9 months and forcing them to breath on their own.  Main question to ask yourself is why would the risk of cutting off an oxygen source to your baby be created if there is no benefit or reason to cut the cord immediately?  Obviously some high risk situations need the baby rushed to a different location for treatment, and that would constitute a reason to cut off the oxygen source.

The main point is:  "We are the only animals that do this (cut the cord right away).  I would claim that we don't do it because we really think that it is a good idea or that we have any conscious thought that we really need to cut the umbilical cord right away.  I think we do it because it's just a development of our technology...  I think if you go back a few hundred years there wasn't a pediatrician there.  There was a mother, there was a blanket, there was a breast, and the baby was born put on the mothers belly and there was no real reason to cut the umbilical cord right away.  But now we have a warmer, we have nurses, we have all kinds of things and it seems convenient to just clamp the cord, get the baby off to the warmer and people don't really think about it." Dr. Fogelson

If there is no advantage to cutting the cord right away... why not leave it alone until all of the blood, oxygen, stem cells, and nutrients are delivered to the baby and breathing through the respiratory system has had a long period of time to be practiced and established.

Here is another (shorter) video on the same subject: