lotus birth

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anyone had one? waht do you think about them?

I know someone who had one. Personally I can't see any added benefit over just having delayed clamping and a physiological 3rd stage.

But if it makes you happy then its good

Think there was a thread on this a few months ago, someone's sister had one.

Sounds a wee bit OTT for me.

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will find the link

not for me, but as rhubarbcat said , if it makes you happy..

i think if you did this, you would be into attachment parenting and baby wearing...and having a lotus birth would enable you to keep a hold of your baby 24 hours a day pretty much for the first few days..as it is not that likely that many people would be comfortbale cuddling a baby and the placenta IFYSWIM

also, some people make an essence out of the placenta , ready to treat PND...

i think that is on that other thread too, if i can find it...

here!

link to placenta essence on here too!

I know loads of peeps who have done Lotus birth... placenta went in a bowl til it detatched from baby on it's own.

I have a placenta phobia so it is not for me....

I am probably crunchy parent in every other way tho ..... in a non pushy gentle ap, babywearing way!

'crunchy parent'

you sound intersting redtent!

I'm a crunchy parent too.

Oh no, hang on! I meant crunchie!

I just had a lotus birth. Well, I cut off the cord after 36 hours, when it was completely dry and rigid. Have not had a birth any other way, so I can't really compare, but my midwife (who had never seen one before) was so fascinated she actually cut off a bit of the cord to keep. She had a good sniff at the placenta as well to see if it smelt (it was wrapped up in one of those square matress protectors) and declared that it didn't. It is a bit of a nuisance to have it hanging around, but there's no chance of an infection when you do cut it off so IMO it's worth it.

It does stop people playing 'pass the parcel' with the baby, which I consider to be no bad thing....

The stump fell off a couple of days later, but I reckon if you left the placenta attached it would probably fall off even sooner as the cord is totally rigid after 24 hours, and you'd have trouble not pulling it off....

lotussister,,,was the reasoning behind it to stop 'pass the parcel' with the baby? would you do it again ? how did you find out about it?

It wasn't our reason because I refused to see anyone for the first two days - but I noticed this when my sister did it. That's how I found out. I would definitely do it again. The good thing for me is that there was no commitment, I got the midwife to leave me a clamp and her scissors so if I decided I wanted it gone at any time I could just cut it.

very interesting, so the placenta is left attached to the baby until it detaches itself?

How does this affect things like breastfeeding, skin to skin bonding with the baby etc?

I had a physiological 3rd stage with DD2, delayed cord clamping (the MWs hadn't really done one before so were desperate to cut the cord and get everything tidied up), I also refused all visitors for 2 days too wanted a few days of just me, DP and the DDs.

thanks...any other thoughts on it you would like to share?

I don't think it affected bf or skin-to-skin as the cord is quite long. That said, I didn't move around much while it was attached, I guess if you wanted to it could be quite cumbersome.

lotussister, did you have a special bag for it, how would i make one

could you wrap it surgical gauze or a muslin or something like that...a terry nappy?

I had it wrapped in one of those disposable bed protectors which I had left over from the birth - was a home birth so had a bunch to protect the furniture. Personally I think I would want something waterproof as otherwise you would get stuff soaking through it I reckon.

Hi everyone

Thought I had done my first post on this thread a few days ago but really don't know where that post ended up!

Anyway, I'm Ali, have a DH and one DS aged 2 and am 10 weeks pregnant.

Really intrigued about the lotus birth, can someone fill me in on what exactly it is and what you do and why? Suppose you would call me a little bit crunchy!

Thanks so much.

Ali

x

this is lotus birth!
i'm sure if you google it, it will tell you more ! i only heard of it when i did my doula training....

what is crunchy though>??

lotus birth.com congratulations on your pregnancy! x

I had a doula client who had one, in fact she had had three because she did it with her other two DD's. Still had their placentas in the freezer in fact, waiting until they found a permanent home and then planning to bury them in the garden. I thought it was all a bit of a faff to be honest - after the baby was born (unattended home waterbirth) the placenta was obviously still attached, for the first 24 hours they had it in a bucket on the bed between them and it did tend to get in the way a bit. After that it has to be salted and then wrapped up - I think they used a cloth nappy.It dropped off after about a week. She said that her reason for doing it was so the baby could let go of their placentas when they were ready. Apparently her DD1 had lost hers in a few days but her DD2 hung onto hers for a couple of weeks. She said this was very reflective of their personalities and how they approach their lives. But to be honest, and I hope she is not reading this, she was a bit of a whacko. A lovely whacko though.

Personally, with DD2 I couldn't wait to cut the cord - it was short so I couldn't hold DD properly and I was having the most horrendous afterpains. I thought that was way worse than the labour. I ended up cutting the cord myself and almost injecting myself with Syntometrine but decided against that in the end (no doctor present as he was doing a cesarean at the time!)

Lulumama - crunchy as in crucnhy granola I presume? I describe people with crunchy tendencies as the "knit your own yogurt brigade". With fond affection of course because I do in fact knit my own yogurt.

Lulumama - crunchy as in crucnhy granola I presume? I describe people with crunchy tendencies as the "knit your own yogurt brigade". With fond affection of course because I do in fact knit my own yogurt.

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