Lotus Childbirth ... Leaving Cord/Placenta Attached to Baby For 3-10 days
@GrannyGee (3517)
Louisburg, North Carolina
February 25, 2016 4:03pm CST
Has anyone heard of ... Lotus birthing? I heard of it for the first time this morning when watching The Doctors.
When the mother has her baby naturally ... she doesn't cut the cord ... it stays attached to the baby and the cord stays attached to the placenta ... the placenta stays nearby while the cord 'drys, rots' anywhere 3 to 10 days.
It's supposed to be about making sure the baby gets all the enriched blood. Anyway ... I don't think The Doctors looked at that type of birthing in a favorable way. I know I didn't.
I think back to when I had my child ... there's no way I would have lived, nor my baby ... having a baby naturally. We would have died in childbirth. The Doctors were afraid it would make women think they could just do it naturally without problems.
Infection, death can happen to the baby leaving the cord attached to it. You can read my blog story I wrote today ... at:
Also, if you are interested in this type of childbirth, you can Google ... Lotus childbirth. I had never heard of it until this morning. I'm always interested in new things ... this was one of those.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Feb 16
Nope to begin with it doesn't sound healthy. The 2nd is the smell I'm thinking it would smell after 10 days.
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@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
26 Feb 16
One woman said she put flower petals and such on the placenta to keep smells down ... gracious, I couldn't bear knowing it was ... laying around close to a baby.
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@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
26 Feb 16
@fishtiger58 Do you know ... that was my first impression ... I think it's all just a lot of baloney ... now, I said it :)
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
26 Feb 16
@GrannyGee I'm thinking flower petals wouldn't help the smell. So unsanitary.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
26 Feb 16
I have never heard of this type of child birth and cannot say it sounds like a particularly good idea. From what I just read of it, this type of child birth has never been practiced by any culture throughout human history and the woman who began the practice got the idea from chimpanzees because chimpanzees don't cut their umbilical cord. I'm not sure that is a source of medical practice humans should be emulating.
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@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
26 Feb 16
I think just like you do ... it disturbed me learning about it this morning. People come up with all these ideas to do things differently ... and could make somebody having a baby not knowing better ... to cause something bad to happen. The doctors didn't like the idea and neither did I. So, I agree wholeheartedly with you.
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@JamesHxstatic (29321)
• Eugene, Oregon
26 Feb 16
I have never heard of that either and it sounds like a really bad idea.
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@GrannyGee (3517)
• Louisburg, North Carolina
26 Feb 16
@JamesHxstatic it is a bad idea ... I just hope young women won't get the idea that it's something they need to do because it's different. Gracious.
@JudyEv (326276)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb 16
This sounds gross to me. It's amazing the strange ideas that come up.
@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
11 May 17
How interesting to attach a news article to your post.
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