Given that my BIL was killed when he was in a road accident driving a Lotus (Elise), I can say from personal (sort of) experience that they are an utterly shite car if you want a car that you can live through an accident in. No airbags, no real crumple zones - BIL died, other car (head on both at 55 or so) passenger had scratches and driver had a broken leg. Some months later my SIL was contacted by Lotus to ask where the insurance payment was to be sent to. It turns out, that Lotuses are SO crap that you buy a Lotus, you get free life insurance (for £2k or something). The clue's in the added extras, people .
A lotus birth is not some mad yoga thing WHILE giving birth although it could be argued that it would be after - for the baby anyway. It's where the cord isn't cut but is left to drop off naturally. Apparently it still pulsates for a day or so and leaving it allows the complete transfer of all the goodies to the baby. I'm trying to look into what the "natural" way of dealing with it would have been. With some animals the cord breaks at birth, and others chew through it (NO!). I don't know whether we would have cut it somehow or left it - would it have been practical for cave dwellers to have had to deal with an attached placenta (from a staying away from preditors POV?).
I have decided that I want to not have a cord clamp, but to tie it with string. The plastic clips are horrid, and really get in the way, so it seems logical.
I'll go and eat some raw tofu now. Come on, someone be supportive?