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.

But WHY ?

What it is the thinking behind it?

And how would you put your pants on?

Oh hang on a minute, I am trying to think. What is it attached to?

I am so unearthmothery. I feel shamed

oh bugger - smily didn't work [thick emoticon]

Must make changing nappies interesting. Does it have to hang out of the mother as well so the two are still joined? I'd be worried about infection apart from the practical issues.

That is just wrong! Surely it is not medically safe??

attached to baby and placenta, chegirl.

How do you carry it around? I thought a catheter was bad for a day, hooked on one of those wheeley holders! Does it go in the bath/shower with you? DOes it shrivel or does it stay that big?

It's not attached to the mother any more, only to the baby. So you get a whole baby + placenta combo for a few days. Imagine introducing the kid to its great grandmother like that. Enough to shuffle her off into the great beyond rather faster than she'd expected.

Lotus birth and Placentophagy - no thanks.very angst competitive mummy

Oh what a twat, for some reason I am thinking the placenta is still attached by a cord up inside you. Geez, you wouldn't think I'd had two kids would you?

It only goes where baby goes so not in bath/shower unless baby comes too, which is unlikely in the few days after birth!

I think it shrivels a bit.

You carry it in a bag - it gets salted and has herbs rubbed in first, as I understand it.

I mentioned the term 'lotus birth' to DH, who promptly googled it on his laptop, got to the wikipedia entry, and is now completely traumatised.

And I quote:

'You're 'aving a larf! What the hell is she doing? That's fucking grim! There's some geezer holding something that looks like a liver in a jar! Auggh, are you looking at this? I didn't know they looked like that!! Oh I feel bilious!'

And so on.

I do love how my mild-mannered scientist completely reverts to his London Eastender accent and speech patterns in certain situations.

Oh I get it. I'd say it was against nature - you'd never see an animal dragging that around with them to create a trail.

LoW!

Have read that lotus babies are much calmer then other babies.....

Probably because they are totally traumatised by having a hunk of dead meat hanging off them you loons!

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Poor baby having to sleep curled up to it's "ugly twin" Sorry, do not think that's right at all.

@ Yank

I've heard that lotus babies are calmer too, but I reckon that's just the mums trying to justify their competetive lentil-weaving!

Thanks Lindenlass. Glad to see I am not the only confused MN though.

Ewwww!

Snork at handing over baby with shrivelled smelly thing attached to elderly relative.

But WHY?

Is having a newborn to look after not hard enough without adding rotting flesh into the equation? (sp) flipping nork I am losing points of my IQ with every post tonight.

I think my Nan would have had her scissors out if I'd managed to introduce her great-grandaughter to her complete with dried placenta. Earth Gran she was not .

it is not narsty.............

it is, quite plainly, UNHINGED!!!

can just imagine the bulgy eyed big wallet competitive incantation chanting tits who would fancy this

probably called the baby chlamydia

Poor baby having to sleep curled up to it's "ugly twin"

Eeeewww! Surely the germs and bacteria from the rotting matter could infect the baby? < that's a sick emoticon btw...

Can it infect the baby though? If something happened to it (eg. badly taken care of).

Awww - Chlamydia is a lovely name! I think Syphilis is pretty too.