i just had to go and do it

MrsShrek1028

look up lotus birth that is

yuck

Mrs.EliK

Did you watch some of the You Tube videos?

I did that a couple weeks back, it was like a train wreck....I wanted to turn away but I couldn't!

fabbate13

thanks, now I just did.  Not near as bad as I was imagining.

MrsShrek1028

oh hell no

preppynewlywed

I don't really get what it is.

These YouTube videos are not satisfying my need to know.

lecooke

I refuse to do this.  I have vivid, disturbing dreams enough as it is already!

Mrs.EliK

preppynewlywed:

I don't really get what it is.

These YouTube videos are not satisfying my need to know.

 
There are a lot of sites that explain the reasoning for it.  I found this one interesting because if you scroll down, she talks about her first child who they didn't keep the placenta attached, describing how awful it was having his umbilical cord cut.  Weird!

fabbate13

preppynewlywed:

I don't really get what it is.

These YouTube videos are not satisfying my need to know.

 

Wikipedia.....

preppynewlywed

fabbate13:

preppynewlywed:

I don't really get what it is.

These YouTube videos are not satisfying my need to know.

 

Wikipedia.....

Yep.  Just found it.

To each their own I guess.

ValentineBB

So...I guess I don't understand.  Are you carrying the placenta around in a bowl/bucket with the baby until it falls off?

ginifred

lecooke:

I refuse to do this.  I have vivid, disturbing dreams enough as it is already!

Check out www.wikipedia.org

It goes into an explaination and how different cultures practice it.  That is as far as I'm willing to go looking it up on my work computer...

preppynewlywed

ValentineBB:

So...I guess I don't understand.  Are you carrying the placenta around in a bowl/bucket with the baby until it falls off?

It sounds that way on wikipedia.

ginifred

preppynewlywed:

I don't really get what it is.

These YouTube videos are not satisfying my need to know.

 

Oops.  This is what I meant to quote.  But I see you went there already.

Mrs.EliK

ValentineBB:

So...I guess I don't understand.  Are you carrying the placenta around in a bowl/bucket with the baby until it falls off?

Yes and you have to clean/salt it and stuff.  People I think usually have a placenta bag or something.  IMO it would be a PITA on top of really disgusting.  Nothing like snuggling up to your newborn and a smelly placenta! 

ValentineBB

preppynewlywed:

ValentineBB:

So...I guess I don't understand.  Are you carrying the placenta around in a bowl/bucket with the baby until it falls off?

It sounds that way on wikipedia.

How unwieldy.

zoieglow

didn't someone here do a lotus birth? wee, maybe?

lauriemel

"Her placenta was, unusually, an oval shape, which was perfect for the red velvet placenta bag that I had sewn."

When I think of making keepsakes for my future children . . . this does not come to mind.