Did anyone have a "lotus birth"?

[anna7602]

Honestly curious. No judgment. If you're interested in sharing your experience, please PM me.

ETA: If you had one, you will know. Google only at your own risk.

[anna7602]

@starry is right, I figured I didn't need to explain.

[vanillacourage]

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[anna7602]

Warning posted, @246baje. Thanks for the link, vanillacourage.

[lolo]

Are you thinking of one, Anna?

[anna7602]

Mar 3, 2014 21:14:50 GMT -5 lolo said:

Are you thinking of one, Anna?

Every natural birth book I am reading right now mentions them, but I never hear about them IRL. So, just curious.

[curbsideprophet]

Nope. I know multiple people who have had home births, I don't think I know anyone who did this.

[karinothing]

No, I think it is weird and could lead to infection.

[redheadk]

Newp newp newp.

[anna7602]

Mar 3, 2014 22:24:52 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Newp newp newp.

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[MadamePresident]

I had never heard of it and its not something that interest me and I'm pretty crunchy.

[redheadk]

Mar 3, 2014 22:31:31 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Mar 3, 2014 22:24:52 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Newp newp newp.

?

? I answered your question.

This seems like a terrible idea to me, not for the strangeness of carrying around a placenta, but more for the keeping a no-longer-functioning-and-now-decaying organ attached to your child.

[sookie]

I made DH google it because I didn't know what it was and I read the warning to not google it myself right before I went to do it. His response was "why did you make me google this? Oh God, no picture! No picture! No picture! Yeah, that's gross. We aren't doing that next time either."

I thought it was going to be some sort of birth position.

[anna7602]

Mar 3, 2014 22:37:54 GMT -5 redheadk said:

Mar 3, 2014 22:31:31 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

?

? I answered your question.

This seems like a terrible idea to me, not for the strangeness of carrying around a placenta, but more for the keeping a no-longer-functioning-and-now-decaying organ attached to your child.

Okay, but I still don't know what a "newp" is. I guess it's "nope"?

[redheadk]

Mar 3, 2014 22:41:06 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Mar 3, 2014 22:37:54 GMT -5 redheadk said:

? I answered your question.

This seems like a terrible idea to me, not for the strangeness of carrying around a placenta, but more for the keeping a no-longer-functioning-and-now-decaying organ attached to your child.

Okay, but I still don't know what a "newp" is. I guess it's "nope"?

Ah, yes. Sorry, the app has led to lots of board crossover. I believe it's a MLism originally?

[anna7602]

Sorry, sookie!

[sookie]

Mar 3, 2014 22:42:36 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Sorry, sookie!

Hey, no need for apologies. I didn't see it. If anything you might have helped me! DH is already getting interested in a second kid sooner rather than later, so hopefully that google search will calm him down for a little bit.

[anna7602]

I am leaving Leonardo's birth story up on the computer screen for DH to find when he gets home from work tonight. It will either make for some interesting conversation or cause him to rethink coming home from work after midnight.

[lolo]

Mar 3, 2014 23:18:07 GMT -5 @ojo said:

This reminds me I need to do something about the placentas in my freezer.

This is amazing. Just, oh yeah, those placentas! As you do.

[212]

A friend of my good friend did it. Unattended home birth. Partner delivered the baby. Named the kid Namaste.

I'm pretty hippy-dippy, but I just cannot. Salted rotting flesh attached to my precious. To each their own?

[potatopie]

My midwife offered us the placenta to take home. but it was definitely unattached already (we declined the offer, btw). I really don't understand the point of it. Just because it doesn't unattach on its own immediately doesn't mean there is a benefit to keeping it around, right?

[megs193]

Are there any medical benefits to this that you couldn't get from delayed cord clamping? It seems dangerous to have a rotting organ attached to your very susceptible newborn and my kids chakras are good so I wouldn't do it but it definitely didn't freak me out. I was totally fascinated by my placenta and made them show it to me. I wanted to encapsulate my placenta but my DH was so freaked out about it that I ended up not doing it.

[anna7602]

Mar 3, 2014 23:58:42 GMT -5 212 said:

A friend of my good friend did it. Unattended home birth. Partner delivered the baby. Named the kid Namaste.

I'm pretty hippy-dippy, but I just cannot. Salted rotting flesh attached to my precious. To each their own?

I am more put-off by the fact that they named their child Namaste. No one has to know you spent the first 3-5 days of your life with your placenta still attached to you if you don't want them to know, but Namaste will follow you for the rest of your life.

[212]

Mar 4, 2014 12:10:23 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Mar 3, 2014 23:58:42 GMT -5 212 said:

A friend of my good friend did it. Unattended home birth. Partner delivered the baby. Named the kid Namaste.

I'm pretty hippy-dippy, but I just cannot. Salted rotting flesh attached to my precious. To each their own?

I am more put-off by the fact that they named their child Namaste. No one has to know you spent the first 3-5 days of your life with your placenta still attached to you if you don't want them to know, but Namaste will follow you for the rest of your life.

They're expecting their second and planning to name the baby Om.

Poor kids.

[Ashley&Scott]

Someone explain what this is, I don't want to google.

[anna7602]

Mar 4, 2014 12:50:25 GMT -5 Ashley&Scott said:

Someone explain what this is, I don't want to google.

It's when you wait for the placenta & umbilical cord to fall off of the baby instead of cutting it at birth. So the baby hangs out with its placenta for a few days.

212, there are a BILLION lovely-named Hindu gods and goddesses. They couldn't go with any of them over OM?

[dbsk8dance]

Mar 3, 2014 22:38:32 GMT -5 sookie said:

I made DH google it because I didn't know what it was and I read the warning to not google it myself right before I went to do it. His response was "why did you make me google this? Oh God, no picture! No picture! No picture! Yeah, that's gross. We aren't doing that next time either."

I thought it was going to be some sort of birth position.

DH now wants to google to see if it's really gross. (I read him your post.)

He wants to know how people carry it around.