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

127 replies

DisasterEggs · 03/04/2009 21:56

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.

OP posts:
YanknbeforetheCockcrows · 03/04/2009 22:27

Now DH has discovered placenta is Latin for 'cake' and has been looking pictures of placentas on Wikipedia (he just can't resist clicking on stuff). He's quite disturbed.

Hoping he realises he will be confronting a placenta in about 20 weeks or so!

Somehow I don't think he'd be up for a Lotus birth at this stage.....

GreenMonkies · 03/04/2009 22:39

Lotus Birth is such tripe!! I had a physiological thrid stage and didn't cut the cord until it had stopped pulsing, but in no way is it natural to leave the damn thing hanging off the baby!!

Fecking loons.

(I love how the Super-Mega-Ultra-Natural-Earth-Momma in that picture has a placenta in one hand, and a baby wearing a disposable nappy on her lap!!!)

Stayingsunnygirl · 03/04/2009 22:50

I just looked at wikipedia and followed a link to this article.

The things that made me the most were the cat getting interested in one baby's placenta, due to the 'meaty' smell, and the child who remembered it hurting when her cord was cut.

juneybean · 03/04/2009 22:54

WTF ... will I need a double buggy?

CurlyhairedAssassin · 03/04/2009 22:57

Is the whole umbilical cord put in the bag with the placenta too, so the bag is kind of right next to the baby's body? Or is the cord just dangling about in the air.

Puts me in mind of those cuddly toys with the pull-cord thing that plays a lullaby for a minute or two when extended, and slowly coils back in again.

Perhaps if you yank hard enough on the placenta bag, your baby gets a lovely rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to lull it to sleep as the umbilical cord winds slowly back to position.

randomrabbit · 03/04/2009 22:57

ewwww how mad is that ..weidos

FAQinglovely · 03/04/2009 22:57

stayingsunny - that article should have come with a warning - don't read if eating as it's nauseous to read >

"he drank deeply of the stillness of that time."

what airy fairy non-sense!!!

and no doubt the child "remembered" because she'd heard her mother harking on about this bizarre practice and her imagination ran away her

YanknbeforetheCockcrows · 03/04/2009 22:59

Jesus H., just clicked on stayingsunnygirl's link and now am traumatised. . . these women sound mental. Salt treatment, like a beef roast. .

YanknbeforetheCockcrows · 03/04/2009 23:02

And the poor little 2yo child 'helping' to take care of her sister's placenta! Yerrgghhhh

CurlyhairedAssassin · 03/04/2009 23:04

DS2 had a problem with his umbilical cord. The stump took ages to come off and even then it wasn't properly healed underneath and it had to be treated when he was about 9 weeks old. Christ, if I'd gone in for lotus bloody birthing can you IMAGINE the stench after 9 weeks?

Stayingsunnygirl · 03/04/2009 23:05

So so sorry, FAQ and Yank.

I will now sign off from mumsnet in penance.

YanknbeforetheCockcrows · 03/04/2009 23:06

nah, don't worry about it. I probably deserved it after laughing at the DH!

FAQinglovely · 03/04/2009 23:07

oooooo - no I didn't mean it like that

I meant in the airy, fairy, head in the cloud, crazy, weird type of nauseous as opposed to the "eww that's disgusting" if you see what I mean???

CurlyhairedAssassin · 03/04/2009 23:08

"This prolonged contact can be seen as a time of transition, allowing the baby to slowly and gently let go of their attachment to the mother's body."

Erm, the attachment to the mother's body ended the minute the placenta came away from the mother's body. Don't get the reasoning. The only "attachment" the baby has in "lotus birthing" is to a piece of decaying flesh.

Stayingsunnygirl · 03/04/2009 23:09

Phew.

And I totally see what you mean, FAQ - I read a lot of it thinking 'pass me a bucket.'

duchesse · 03/04/2009 23:10

And anyway, genetically the placenta is part of the baby, not the mother, so bang goes the attachment theory.

FAQinglovely · 03/04/2009 23:11

"pass the bucket" - that's the phrase I was looking for

onebatmother · 03/04/2009 23:20

eew. and surely if they were that keen they woudn't bother with the bag?

"allowing the baby to slowly and gently let go of their attachment to".. a mesh bag containing pot-pourri and rotting flesh?

Also what about bosoms? Isn't breast-feeding an "attachment to the mother's body"? But on the outside? Because the baby is, like, on the outside now?

loulou35 · 03/04/2009 23:33

...surely this is a major infection risk.... just plain wrong IMHO .....

solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 03/04/2009 23:34
nametaken · 03/04/2009 23:41

I haven't got anything to add I just want to type the words decomposing body parts.

nickschick · 03/04/2009 23:46

You could just pass the ice cream tub .....thats what they used to float the placenta in during a water birth ....

Does it have to be a silk bag? would I be ostracised on maternity b if i used a tesco bag? do you think boden do bags?would a waitrose bag be chic?

heyyyy whats about the idea show we could design placenta bags ......

MillyR · 03/04/2009 23:54

I don' think a silk bag is practical. I think a Cath Kidston oilcloth one would be more suitable, as it would be wipe clean.

nickschick · 03/04/2009 23:57

ohhh we could use those ones from tesco .....

themoon66 · 04/04/2009 00:00

Erm - can I ask please... WHY is it called 'lotus birth'? Is it something to do with yoga?