none of the spiritual crap i've read about the baby being at one with it's placenta.
all i've read so far is
"The placenta still contains nutrients and antibodies which continue to pass to the child through the umbilcal cord during this process. It also supports the child's young liver, because the placenta continues to pump out toxins while still providing oxygenated blood to the child."
"They receive quite a bit of extra blood, rich in nutrients and oxygen, that boosts their immune system, and the placenta helps their liver by filtering toxins from the baby's blood as long as the pumping continues."
"Because the placenta still contains nutrients and antibodies, some see it as wasteful to simply discard it. Many parents do it to give their child a jump start on nutrition by letting their child receive the full blood volume of the placenta, high in nutrients."
But doesn't the baby stop getting any blood and nutrients from the placenta as soon as it is delivered/the cord stops pulsing? if this is the case is there any point to having a lotus birth?
"Oxygen flows to the baby until after the placenta is dispelled from the womb so that he is never completely oxygen deprived until after the cord is cut. He continues to receive nutrients and be relieved of toxins as long as the cord is intact."
I have heard sometimes the cord stops pulsing before the placenta is delivered. If this happens is the placenta still pumping out toxins/delivering oxygenated blood to the baby or does the placenta stop doing all that when the cord stops pulsing regardless of whether it has been delivered yet?