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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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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?

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?

babyonboard · 14/10/2005 18:42

hahahahahaha

muma3 · 14/10/2005 19:13

so have we then come to the conclusion that lotus births are not good for the baby then pmsl !!!!!!

spidermama · 14/10/2005 19:56

Wot? No dissenting voices? Is this a mumsnet first?

There must be someone out there who's had or is planning or even knows a lotee?

CarolinaFullMoon · 14/10/2005 20:08

search the archives, spidermama

Blandmum · 14/10/2005 20:12

Lotus births and scientology.

Blimy, we are hitting a purple patch of non contested threads!

startingtobehalloweenylover · 14/10/2005 20:13

apparently there is no reason for it! well, on one site i was on ages ago they said there was no record of it ever being done in any country before...

it's a pretty new phenomenon... and IMO completely pointless and pretty damned vile!

LIZS · 14/10/2005 20:17

Gives a new dimension to the sweet newborn baby smell . Is this for real ?!

Gobbledispook · 14/10/2005 20:20

There have been heated threads on this before. I'm surprised there have been no dissenting voices yet!

Me, I think it's gross city (as if you couldn't guess my opinion )

startingtobehalloweenylover · 14/10/2005 20:23

one lady i read about put the baby's crib by the fridge so that the placenta could be cool overnight!!!

LIZS · 14/10/2005 20:25

Doesn't make the new baby very portable does it !

Mosschops30 · 14/10/2005 20:25

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sweetbean · 16/10/2005 17:45

Thanks for all your comments im so glad that you all aggree that its mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone elese no of any other weird practacise or is that the starngest so far,god no's what they will think of next ??
Thanks for all your responces sorry about the late post but had computer problems (bloody things) XX

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hunkerpumpkin · 16/10/2005 17:52

Weirdies.

Mind you, it's stop unwanted attention from realtives who'd stay too long otherwise.

"Oh, what a cute baby! Except...what's that? Oh, I think I have somewhere I need to be!"

babyonboard · 16/10/2005 20:10

i must say i find 'unassisted birthing' a little wierd..and dangerous!
I read one womans site who had given birth to her baby in her bath at home alone..through choice!

SoupDragon · 16/10/2005 20:16

A valid point hunkerpumpkin, but surely you could just have a fake pouch stuffed with somethingi nnocuous and simply say it was the placenta when Great Aunt Phyllis says "What's in that bag?"

TicTacsMum · 16/10/2005 20:16

OMG this is totally hilarious. The pics do make me feel a bit squeamish though!

Roxswood · 16/10/2005 20:21

Its beneficial to the baby to leave them attached to the placenta until after the placenta has been delivered as long as you have a totally natural third stage. That way the blood level in the baby will settle at the optimum level for the baby's health, as opposed to when you have the injection of syntometrin and cord cut and clamped straight away when the baby can miss out on quite a bit of blood left in the cord that really should be flowing round the baby's veins.
BUT... I can't think of any reason to keep it attached after that.. though I know someone who kept the placenta to bury it under a tree for her baby, and I can kind of understand that. Its a bit nicer than it going off to a cosmetics company or in the hospital incinerator.

hunkerpumpkin · 16/10/2005 20:23

Ah, SD, like your thinking

JellyNump · 14/05/2006 16:33

i've heard of not cutting the cord until it stops pulsating the blood into the baby because theres about 250 ml in the cord, but not heard of leaving it attached to the placenta until it drops off ewww

louii · 16/05/2006 13:50

I had a lotus birth.

louii · 16/05/2006 13:51

I had a lotus birth.

louii · 16/05/2006 13:52

I had a lotus birth.

RedZuleika · 16/05/2006 20:50

Has that stunned everyone into silence...? I have read about an Australian woman's lotus birth on another message board. She said the cat was very interested in it.

I've also read about someone making 'placental essence' which you would subsequently swig at times of need as a pick-me-up. It probably worked. But only because it's predominately pure vodka.

So why did you go for a lotus birth, Louii?

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