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I don't like the idea of holding my baby, attached to me, while I go take a poop
I'm pretty sure birthing a child from the womb into cold air is not gentle, either! It totally makes sense for SE asian cultures though. They're big on naturalistic, yoga, non-violence, spiritual type things in general.
haha, I assume you could probably pass the baby/placenta off to someone else while you go take a poo?!
LOL @ the poo comments. I ahvent actually ever heard of this...but it is definitely something I will NOT be doing. I watched a friend give birth, and I watched her deliver the placenta. All I can say about the placenta is EW...just ew. No way Jose
Oh i thought it was still IN you. I was like "wtf, i thought that stuff came out!"
Duh, EJS.
I'll stick to the traditional western methods, though. It kinda grosses me out to think about it drying and falling off. Dead blood and skin. I lost a nail once and that's all I'm picturing. I want my baby all cleaned up at the hospital =]
I have seen mention of waiting until the cord stops pulsing to cut it. I haven't researched the reasoning behind this though! (And I didn't realize this might not be until after the placenta is delivered)
My hubby thinks I'm crazy cause I want to hold/nurse the baby right away even before he/she gets cleaned off. We'll see what happens :) Still a long way off!
Wow. This is totally new for me so I definitely will not be doing that.
@KellyV - my sister's second pregnancy was the first time I was present for a birth and I too saw the placenta. Yuck-O! Glad I didn't eat before seeing it, lol.
We didn't do a lotus birth, or even a partial one, but we did wait for the cord to stop pulsing before my husband cut it... the placenta had not come out at that point. I have to say, I had NO interest in seeing it at that time. Maybe for baby 2, but for this one I had my eyes closed till she was on my belly, and then I only looked at her and my husband, not what was going on between my legs. I wasn't sure if I could handle the blood and keep my cool.
We made the choice to wait on the cord cutting until it stopped pulsating because we kept hearing about the benefits of cord blood. We can't afford banking, so we figured just give it to her now for free. :)
I wouldn't do a lotus birth. I figure once my baby comes out of the womb, the placenta's job is over, and it's not wrong to just move on. The moms who want to do it though, more power to them and I'll visit after the placenta has passed on, thanks.
Very interesting idea. I am not on-board, personally, though =)
Again- this is something I'm not doing... it's just a little too out there, well atleast the full lotus is. But I'm actually sort of interested in seeing the placenta. I don't know, I'm not really the squeamish type- I'd actually love to do a cadaver study someday! But I think seeing the placenta might be kind of neat. I'm weird like that.
I've heard of lotus birth and kind of like the idea. I'll probably do a partial lotus, which will freak my family out plenty without adding days and days of placenta-viewing. Though that might keep the visitors and their germs to a minimum!
lol hopewell, I hadn't thought of it like that- but it probably would keep the throngs of visitors away!
Frankly, I see enough crap come out of my va-jj during my period that I'd not need to see extra attached to a baby I'd just birthed! I do like the idea of waiting for the cord to stop pulsing before cutting it though. It seems like maybe it'd be slightly less traumatic for both the baby's body and my own that way. I'll have a few years to think on this before we start our baby making, so I'll have time to research and mull this over. Thanks for posting. I'd never heard of this before!
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Has anyone else heard of this? Of course my knee jerk reaction is to think that it's totally bizarre and pretty gross... but then there is that small part of me that's like, well, it's kind of a cool idea. A full lotus birth is where no one cuts the umbilical cord- at all. After the baby is born the placenta is allowed to be born as well, still attatched to the baby. It is then usually dusted with salt/drying herbs and wrapped up and kept with the baby until it falls off naturally, usually 3-10 days later. A partial lotus birth involves waiting until the placenta is born and everything stops pulsing to cut the cord. It's a relatively new practice here in the west but apparently it's been going on in some traditional SE asian cultures for some time. I dunno... I don't really understand the medical reasoning behind it (or even if there really is any sound medical reasoning) but in a way I can see the philosophical/spiritual implications- ie. the baby/placenta/cord are essentially one unit, created by the sperm and egg, so maybe they should seperate on their own time... With the full lotus birth it literally grounds the family unit for a few days... you're not really going anywhere, so it promotes bonding. Proponents call it a "non-violent" practice, essentially saying non-severance is a gentle way to let the baby get used to the outside world.
So, I'm not planning on doing this... but I wanted to know what other's think. I'm pretty sure a lot of women will be grossed out by the thought of even looking a placenta, but for those of you that can get past that... what are your thoughts?