to think that dragging around a decomposing body part is just narsty

[DisasterEggs]

lotus birth. WTF!

i like placenas. think they are beautiful and lovely. eat it - no ishoos. plant it - good on you. but to want it hanging around, attached for 10 days until it falls off naturally is just fecking wrong.

like carrying around an amputated gangrenous limb.

eugh.

you what?

Yeurgh! Sounds most unhygenic and unhealthy. It's not 'natural' at all - mammals eat the placenta, they don't leave it hanging about.

My doula knew someone who had one, and apparently, despite all this 'you keep it in a lovely silk bag and strew it with herbs' nonsense - it reeked

each to their own

Don't cut the cord you mean? is that really the way nature planned it? I would have thought that the plan was the mother ate it for vital nutrients.

This makes me shudder too, even afficionados of lotus birthing say it starts to smell after a few days... I mean WTF? If something is smelling of rotting flesh would you really have it still attached to your newborn? Wierdos.

Too right - knawing thro the cord with your teeth would be more 'natural'...

Ewwww, I read an article about a woman who did this, and thought it was plain nasty. It would reek, and it can't seriously be hygenic.

oh, xposts with the bunnyshagger

I read an article about this a month ago and shuddered. Surely it presents and infection risk too??

Did laugh at the herb scented bag - yeah that'll do the job - not.

Dare I google this? Probably not .

I have serious doubts about whether this is really what mother nature ordered, given that even antelope chew the placenta off within minutes of birth. And I am seriously sold on physiological third stages, but no, god, no, no dragging around a redundant bit of meat after it's stopped being useful.

Maybe it might be preferable to neonatal tetanus in areas where they have no access to sterile cutting implements though.

I've never heard about this. What do you mean exactly by "hanging around, attached for 10 days"?

leave cord to stop on its own by all means.

the process of the cord shrivelling up and falling off involves gangrene.
it smells bad.

God!
For a minute there I thought you were describing your DH as a "decomposing body part".

X-posts (and lots of them), sorry.
I get it now.

Not what nature intended, that's for sure!

Oh I thought this was going to be about that chap who is leaving different parts of a dead person around Hertfordshire. I was thinking that it was not unreasonable to suggest that it was not a very nice thing to do.

MrsBeakman - not just Hertfordshire - they've found another part, ermm the top most part of a person, in Leicestershire (80 miles away!)

Lotus birth has never rocked my boat, that's for sure.

And I thought Hertfordshire was bad enough...

I also think this is bonkers and not actually how nature intended it. Mammals bite their cords because a) then they can eat the placenta which is full of nutrients and b) dragging round something that smells so strong will attract predators.

I'm pretty lentil-weavery, me, but lotus birth just makes no sense at all IMHO!

What is lotus birth??

Lotus birth is when you leave the placenta and cord attached to the baby and let it fall of naturally.

QS- it broadly involves NOT cutting the umbilical cord until it drops off of its own accord. Proponents wrap the placenta in a little bag and carry it around with the baby until it falls off. The placenta, that is.

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