Montel Williams

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.

American Entertainer

Matt Haig

Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive.

British Novelist

Joel Salatin

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

American Author

K. D. Lang

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

Canadian Musician

Smriti Irani

I have an ideological umbilical cord with the BJP... we are three-generation party supporters... my grandfather was a swayamsevak, my mother, a BJP booth activist.

Indian Politician

John Densmore

We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation cut its umbilical cord.

American Musician

Irwin Shaw

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

American Novelist

Eliot Engel

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

American Politician

Jermell Charlo

My father cut the umbilical cord for my son, because I wasn't actually there.

American Boxer

Kirk Hammett

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Used primarily in medical or biological discussions, often related to birth.

Medical Context

Can describe things resembling the belly button or cord's connection, not just the body part.

Not Always Literal

In human discussions, it refers to the belly button region or cord in anatomy.

Anatomy Focus

Often used metaphorically to describe a crucial support system.

Metaphorical Use

It implies a supply line or support that is necessary for operation or survival.

Supply Line

It can pertain to a safety connection in high-risk environments, like space or underwater.

Safety Connection

 days old I would imagine this little one and an umbilical cord is starting to dry and also should be its sniffing around imagine what it must be like for this little one everything smells everything is new it's just all about investigating and trying to figure out its world now mom looks very impressed with her she's

Safari Live - Day 292 PIPE...

 Lo and behold, they had the same reaction and more. The women said they would rather deliver on a floor than on a plastic sheet that smeared blood all over. They were absolutely right -- it would cause more infection. The thread provided was a highway to bacterial infection through the baby's umbilical cord,

A simple birth kit for...

 attaches to the wall of the uterus to support the developing embryo. The placenta is what keeps the calf alive during pregnancy. Directly connected to the mother's blood supply, it funnels nutrients and oxygen straight into the calf's body via the umbilical cord,

The three different ways...

 Let's turn him over and look at his belly. So, his belly button, the umbilical cord is gone, but it's still inflamed. So, it looks like the umbilical cord came off very recently. -He's really gripping on though. -The last thing that goes is their grip.

Tiny Orphan Baby Sloth...

 anything that's abnormal he looks good i don't see any wounds at all so that's good let's turn him over and look at his belly so his belly button the umbilical cord is gone but it's still inflamed so it looks like

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 massaging my stomach to help the uterus contract gently tugging at my umbilical cord finally the Midwife calls for backup my baby is taken from my arms and I'm lying there feeling vulnerable and

Caring for maternal...

 round the urban monkeys life cycle is still timed so that babies are born in the season of Plenty while the baby seeks her nipple its mother severs the umbilical cord the baby's first visitor

These Adorable Baby...

 he gets his air through the yellow umbilical cord which mustn't get tangled I mean is a full of unknowns and divers go down and inside like a maze and that's the risk people can lose life

Avoiding an Oil Spill PIPE...

 a kick the gospel air here we go mom's helping it up come on there we go little one it's very shaky it's very shaky on its legs look at the umbilical cord I have absolutely no

Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...

 in the world of the harp seal. That's its umbilical there. A newborn. Three days old, with the mother in the back.

Umbilical