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

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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.

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Stayingsunnygirl · 04/04/2009 14:04

Ds3 had managed to tie a true knot in his cord - so I suppose it might have been an interesting bit to keep (like the woman in the story keeping some of the cord which had dried in particularly interesting twists). < nauseous bunny emoticon - lol!

YanknbeforetheCockcrows · 04/04/2009 14:15

belgo, you're scaring me. Midwives want you to stare at your placenta?

A few months ago, I was an IT trainer helping with the implementation of a new system at a hospital, and somehow wound up in the delivery suite for a few days. Turned around in my chair one day to find a MW casually holding a placenta in a bowl, barely 12 inches from my face! That's enough placenta-gazing for a lifetime, thank you very much.

I think I turned quite pale, they all thought it was hilarious!

solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 04/04/2009 14:50

I did threaten while PG to make placenta pate and feed it to all my mates, but when the time came I was quite happy for them just to take it away, thanks.

Mspontipine · 04/04/2009 16:32

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FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 04/04/2009 16:43

solid...you should have served your friends some pate and afterwards you should have mentioned that, oh that Pate was homemade from my Placenta.....

Simplysally · 04/04/2009 16:54

I was shown dd's placenta - I asked them to do with it what they wanted but take it out of my sight .

I think it's supposed to have pyschological benefits to viewing the placenta but what about women who have cs under a general?

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 04/04/2009 17:10

apparently you can still keep the Placenta on...read that on the Lotus Birth website...

Shandyleer · 04/04/2009 17:35

Started to read the article by the Gina woman quite open-mindedly, but then got to the part where she started talking about the placenta being her baby's friend, and as much a part of her as her hands etc - I lost interest then. And honestly, isn't there enough to do looking after a newborn ,without having to factor in a placenta as well. Was trying to explain "Lotus birth" to dh just now - he's currently got tears of laughter rolling down his face, he thinks I'm having him on. Will show him the pictures when he's calmed down a bit. Every mother want the best start for her child I guess but I, for one, can think of lots of different ways of achieving this that don't involve tethering the baby to a defunct organ. Still, horses for courses and all that (tis Grand National day after all).

MANATEEequineOHARA · 04/04/2009 17:54

Stayingsunnygirl's link was hilarious....esp the 'most delicious mandarins' part. Insane but interesting!

Ripeberry · 04/04/2009 17:54

This thread is LMAO! I'm crying with laughing so much.

MANATEEequineOHARA · 04/04/2009 17:58

Oh and this just reminded me, my midwife showed me dd's placenta, and did a little 'placenta tour' describing it to me, because I told her I thought it was interesting! Actually, I just wanted her to think I thought that, but in actual fact I very nearly fainted looking at it! I had to deep breathe ro stop myself looking a right idiot by passing out on my requested placenta tour!

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AnnieLobePassoverSeder · 04/04/2009 18:14

Urgh, lotus birthing is just nuts. And why do they call it a lotus birth anyway, since the birth bit is done as any other would be, it's the afterwards bit that's different?

I'm a lentil weaver too. DD2 was born at home in water, we left the cord to finish pulsating, I use cloth nappies etc etc. But once that cord was cut, that was the end of any interest in the placenta, thanks! Our MW also asked if we wanted to see it, and we replied that we really didn't, thanks, it's nasty. She told us that no, it's a miraculous organ. DH pointed out that all organs are miraculous, but that doesn't make them pretty or give us any urge to see them, thanks!!

In nature, animals chew through the cord and eat the placenta. There is nothing natural about lotus birth at all.

MarlaSinger · 04/04/2009 18:17

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chegirl · 04/04/2009 20:19

My poor baby! Not only was his cord cut but it had loads of needles stuck into it to collect the cord blood! I just know that as learns to talk he is going to tell me the torture he went through

BTW if people did this in ancient times wouldnt have increased the likelyhood of the baby being eaten by a wolf (or something?). I mean you dont want your baby to smell of meat when you live in a cave do you?

Swedes · 04/04/2009 21:46

Someone once sent me several photos of her placenta. Some photos were of the baby and the placenta together, some of the baby alone and some of the placenta alone.

I've never clapped eyes on my own placentas (plural please someone?).

Mumcentreplus · 04/04/2009 22:07

why was she sending you placental photos?..I understand the baby..but the placenta?..hahaha

I did see my placenta briefly just to check it was all there...but photos???

misdee · 04/04/2009 22:08

my placenta coud've fed my family for a week, i swear! it was huge!!!

chegirl · 04/04/2009 22:20

Uh Oh I can feel placental envy developing on MN!

diedandgonetodevon · 04/04/2009 22:57

Did I read something wrongly or did that woman say they buried the placenta on the girls 1st birthday? WTF did they do with it for a year??

FairLadyOfMuslinCloth · 04/04/2009 23:13

kept it in the freezer of course...along the chicken breast etc...

diedandgonetodevon · 04/04/2009 23:18

pass the placenta bag someone, I think I may be sick

solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 05/04/2009 08:29

If anyone sent me photos of their placenta I would thnk they must have had very ugly baby...

MANATEEequineOHARA · 05/04/2009 10:39

Diedandgonetodevon yeah, that was the same placenta that made the manarin's on the tree taste delicious when buried after a YEAR! Insane! I don't understand why you would want to keep it for a year!