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Original poster

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:
liahgen · 04/04/2009 00:01

Obviously this isn't for everyone but i'm sure th epeople who practice this aren't all Wierdos. Also for the record, the umbilical of the lotus baby would detatch from the baby sooner than 10 days, is generally more like 3 or 4.

No i haven't had one, have given it thought though,

MillyR · 04/04/2009 00:01

I presumed that it was because the placenta somehow resembled a lotus, or at least there is no other decomposing body part that is more lotus like.

liahgen · 04/04/2009 00:05

i read this by a colleague and was i admit intrigued

themoon66 · 04/04/2009 00:08

A placenta looks nothing like a lotus.

It would be better referred to as a 'liver birth' surely?

MillyR · 04/04/2009 00:09

Liaghen

I think the navel healing is a good point. My son's navel never healed properly and had t have some kind of weird stuff put on by the doctor to burn part of it off. It still didn't heal and he is 10 now and has an an extra bit of navel forever. Maybe if I'd done the lotus thing it would have healed properly.

I could be convinced if there was a good medical case.

SparklyGothKat · 04/04/2009 00:14
FAQinglovely · 04/04/2009 00:41

as for why it's called a lotus - look nothing like this

FAQinglovely · 04/04/2009 00:42

or this

themoon66 · 04/04/2009 00:46

FAQ - it looks like a liver without a doubt.

Quattrocento · 04/04/2009 00:47

That's hilarious

"His cord separated in just under four days, and I felt that he drank deeply of the stillness of that time."

themoon66 · 04/04/2009 00:47
midlandsmumof4 · 04/04/2009 01:08

Named after the silly heifer who started it in the US-Clare Lotus Day. She called her son Trimurti btw . What a crock of brown smelly stuff-and I don't mean the rotting placenta either.

nooka · 04/04/2009 04:38

I thought that was a rather sad little story. No wonder her eldest child has developed this rather unlikely story of remembering having her cord cut if the mum is always going around saying how her other children are so wonderful because of their placentas not being removed in the normal way.

TotalChaos · 04/04/2009 07:59

yanbu. unless someone can prove it reduces infection, I just don't see the point. as when in the womb the placenta was providing sustenance - but once the baby is born that doesn't apply, so would have thought that would affect the mystical connection. and am a bit puzzled how all the salting/herbing/wrapping up in bags is meant to be some sort of natural process.

GreenMonkies · 04/04/2009 08:12

DD2's cord came off in about 4 days too, I think it's probably more to do with letting the cord finish pulsating and seal it's self naturally than leaving the placenta attached, as we cut thecord once it had stopped pulsing.

I am a fully signed up natural birther, but I think these women are barking mad!

Original poster
DisasterEggs · 04/04/2009 09:19

So i'm not BU to be feeling repulsed.
i am a fully fledged lentil weaver. I knit. I even love placenta prints. but.....

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KimiWantsAnEasterEgg · 04/04/2009 09:22

pass me a sick bag please, this is just nasty

piratecat · 04/04/2009 09:26

good god, thats just ridiculous. A placenta, surely is what the baby needs INSIDE the womb, not out of it.

surprised that woman in that link hasn't put a fuckin bonnet on it. rofl

Simplysally · 04/04/2009 13:02

I read that lotus birth story... either it's written tongue in cheek or she's crackers.

Mumcentreplus · 04/04/2009 13:11

...sorry but GROSS...and trying to give it a lovely sounding name to fool you!

I mean the baby lying in it's crib next to innards..not my cup of herbal

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 04/04/2009 13:33

hmm..I doubt it can, considering this is practiced in countries where the hygiene standards are not like teh western...I would say, it may, in those countries, even be done to avoid infection...but don't know this...
Personally the lotus Birth would not have been for me...but, had ys been born naturally at home , as he was meant to, than I would have not let them cut the cord, but birthed the Placenta whilst still attached to the Baby and would have left it attached until it completely stopped pulsating, as that helps the Baby to recieve more blood and therefore nutrients, etc...and whilst it is still pulsating the Placenta still helps the Baby's liver by filtereing toxins from the Babies blood....

the thought of keeping the Placenta attached beyond this, felt to me very inconvineient, tbh...and, personally I do not like the look of Placenta's...been traumatised when doing my nursing training, I think....we had a stint in Delievery Unit, and there was this big freezer where all the Placentas were kept, because they were sent on to be used in face creams like Placentubex....barf...until that time I never make that connection between the name of that face cream and Placentas...although, it is obvious, I suppose....

southeastastra · 04/04/2009 13:41

thought this was about the hertfordshire body parts too d'oh

as for lotus births, guess it's like a nasal gazing competition, i'm so much right on that yaw

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 04/04/2009 13:44

oh my first senstnece was about it causing infection....btw...

belgo · 04/04/2009 13:46

ah knew this thread would be about lotus birth. My midwife was very surpirsed when I expressed no interest in gazing at my placenta, I told her to throw it away.

GreenMonkies · 04/04/2009 14:00

At my homebirth my mum and I both peered at DD2's placenta and exclaimed, virtually in unison, "ooh, it looks nothing like a sheeps placenta!" the MW's thought it was hilarious!!!! They took it away and disposed of it though; I had no intention of eating it, no garden to plant it in and as neither me nor DD2 needed it anymore I let them take it with them.