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Childbirth

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LOTUS BIRTHS why are they good for the baby?????????

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sweetbean · 14/10/2005 16:00

Ok so i know what a lotus birth is but can anyone please tell me why this is good for the baby !!!!!! ????????
I mean wild animals don't keep everything attached to there new baby they bite it off and either eat it or berry it so who thought it would be a good idea to keep it on.

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babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:17

Isn't it where you don't cut the cord and carry the placenta around until it drops off naturally?
very odd in my opinion..surely you're just carrying around a useless lump of rotting meat!?

sorry - thats not a very nice image is it!?

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:18

Isn't it where you don't cut the cord and carry the placenta around until it drops off naturally?
very odd in my opinion..surely you're just carrying around a useless lump of rotting meat!?

sorry - thats not a very nice image is it!?

jessicaandbumpsmummy · 14/10/2005 18:19

if thats what it is in my opinion its gross.... ewwwwww.....

sweetkitty · 14/10/2005 18:19

yuck won't it like bloody everything it comes into contact with?

muma3 · 14/10/2005 18:22

leave it connected to baby or us ???

spidermama · 14/10/2005 18:22

Those who know me know I'm very open to plenty of alternative theories and 'new age' thinking but that is insane.

For one thing it stinks. Does anyone remember what the umbilicus smells like? It goes gangrenous and rots off ffs. If that little bit can whiff so badly, imagine having the entire tube rotting in your house. There must be a health and safety issue there.

With my third I delivered the placenta an hour after the baby and cut the cord after that. I thought that was hardcore enough.

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:23

eeek..just found this on a website -

"Zoe, our second child, was born at home on the 10th of September 1993. Her placenta was, unusually, an oval shape, which was perfect for the red velvet placenta bag that I had sewn. Soon after the birth, we wrapped her placenta in a cloth nappy, then in the placenta bag, and bundled it up with her in a shawl that enveloped both of them. Every 24 hours, we attended to the placenta by patting it dry, coating it liberally with salt, and dropping a little lavender oil onto it. Emma, who was 2, was keen to be involved in the care of her sister's placenta"

craziness!

beansprout · 14/10/2005 18:23

Surely the best thing to do with a newborn is skin to skin and a first try at bf?

muma3 · 14/10/2005 18:23

baby having to sleep with it etc that isnt nice people must have some insane notion of what natural is lol

beansprout · 14/10/2005 18:25

OMG - and the point of that is?! Surely if the baby still needed to be attached to the placenta, they wouldn't have been born?

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:25

haha..and amazing. her daughter has a profound emotional memory from the day she was born -
"My older children have blessed me with stories of their lives before birth, and have been unanimously in favour of not cutting the cord- especially Emma, who remembered the unpleasant feeling of having her cord cut, which she describes as being ?painful in my heart?

muma3 · 14/10/2005 18:26

thinking the same beansprout omfg !!!!!! whats with people nowadays ????????????

Blandmum · 14/10/2005 18:26

What possible benefit is it supped to give????

Mad, the baby doesn't need it any more.

What next, keeping the amniotic fluid to dab behind the babies ears????????

muma3 · 14/10/2005 18:27

pmsl!!!

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:27

poor baby

muma3 · 14/10/2005 18:28

drink the amniotic fluid gives baby better memory or helps to breast feed ?????
what next ?

Blandmum · 14/10/2005 18:31

What next, people remembering a previous life when they were run over by a Martian Bishop driving a steam roller?? Oh sorry , that was on the scientologist thread wasn't it

This is just bloody bonkers!

beansprout · 14/10/2005 18:33

She has some good photos - perhaps she could sell it on e-bay?!

spidermama · 14/10/2005 18:35

I can entirely sympathise with the idea of waiting until the cord has stopped pulsing.

But it must take days to wait for it to rot of and it must absolutely stink. I just don't get it.

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:37

this gets worse...

"After Pranananda washed it, with great love and tenderness, we could more readily admire its beauty and all it's hues. The blood rinsed from the placenta was mixed with blood soaked out of the sheets from the birth. He then anointed all the indoor and outdoor plants with this heavenly elixir. And now, as I write this piece, I am intoxicated by the fragrances and vibrancy of the myriad roses in bloom one month later"

they watered their fricking plants with that gunk!

Blandmum · 14/10/2005 18:38

How can it possibly be healthy to have your new born attached to rotting meat????

Animals in the wild eat the placenta

spidermama · 14/10/2005 18:39

'intoxicated by the frangrances' eh? That's got to be the euphemism of the century.

beansprout · 14/10/2005 18:39

Well, she seems happy enough. I certainly wasn't writing diary entries like that after my; c-section!!

Blandmum · 14/10/2005 18:41

Early woman did not, as far as I am aware, make placenta bags are they huddled in caves. And early man was too busy trying to kill things with flint arrow heads to was a placenta FFS!

What is 'natural' about this?

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