Testing the umbilical cord after birth?

Molly

My sister just had a baby the other day. She said after the birth, she saw the doctor snipping a piece off the umbilical cord and gave it a nurse. Does anyone know what they were doing? It worried my sister because they didn't say if they thought something was wrong. Any thoughts of what they were doing?

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