How weird! I can just imagine trying to put the kid into a snowsuit with that thing hanging there. Yikes! I'm assuming there's some kind of "benefit"? What it is supposed to be?
Originally posted by agnes: How weird! I can just imagine trying to put the kid into a snowsuit with that thing hanging there. Yikes! I'm assuming there's some kind of "benefit"? What it is supposed to be?
How would I know? I almost puked when my wife told me to pull it up.
You guys should have your own show on prime time tv.
There is a reason for it...just not very convincing if I do say so myself
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Although recently an alternative birth phenomenon, delayed umbilical severance has been plentifully recorded in the cultures of the Balinese as well as aboriginal people such as the !Kung. Modern practitioners of Lotus Birth point out that those mammals with whom humans share 99% genetic material, the chimpanzees in fact leave the umbilicus intact, neither chewing or cutting it.
Umbilical nonseverance, or Lotus Birth, is an informed choice option currently practiced by a minority of homebirth and hospital birth families[citation needed] [See the research of Sarah Buckley, M.D. and Int'l Midwife Robin Lim], and an increasingly popular continuing education topic for licensed midwives and certified nurse midwives. Particularly compelling to these professionals is the absence of healthy neonatal weight loss and breastfeeding jaundice in lotus birth scenarios, as yet formally studied.
In Tibetan and Zen Buddhism, the name "Lotus-Birth" was what described spiritual teachers such as Guatama-Buddha and Padmasambhava (Lien-hua Sen), emphasizing their entering the world as an intact, holy child.[citation needed] References to Lotus Birth are also found in Hinduism, for example, the story of the birth of Vishnu.[citation needed]
Religious Christians and Jews who choose umbilical nonseverance see it relevant to the strength of the visionary prophet Ezekiel who was cast out of his tribe Ezekiel 16:4 of the Bible, "As for your birth, the day you were born your navel cord was not cut."
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Originally posted by Fish: Maybe she thought she had twins?
Obviously your stellar play on the paddle court is not interrupting your comedy. Fish, think about the skills you would have had if your momma fish kept your umbilical cord attached for a couple of weeks. I bet the aboriginal people are killer paddle players....
Oh My! Where on earth did you find this? Is that for real? It appears to be so, judging from the 'what to do with your placenta' area. ...Or is this something from 'The Onion'? I had no idea, practices like this existed.
Personally, I wouldn't want to carry around that darned placenta for a week. But yes, in some circles/cultures, people eat the placenta. UGH. OK, OK, I'll eat my lima beans but PLEASE don't make me eat the placenta!
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My friend has been a L+D nurse for 16 years. She has never heard of this nonsense. She said some patients take the placenta home to plant in the garden and it reeks to the high heavens just an hour after the birth! Can you imagine having that smelly thing around a newborn. They need their heads examined. It takes all kinds!!
Thanks for the recipes, Clam. Just reading those will help with the weight loss plan! I'm curious as to how much the baby can really benefit from this extended connection when there is no circulation of nutrients post birth. Also, if I were to save it at all, I would clearly cut it loose when the cord had shriveled like a piece of beef jerky - hey, there's a recipe for you!
Originally posted by Shore Thing: My friend has been a L+D nurse for 16 years. She has never heard of this nonsense. She said some patients take the placenta home to plant in the garden and it reeks to the high heavens just an hour after the birth! Can you imagine having that smelly thing around a newborn. They need their heads examined. It takes all kinds!!
From what I remember of my sister-in-law's births in the 80's the nurses sometimes ask for it. I don't know if they (nurses) get paid if they pass it one to someone else, but my family was asked for it...
I do know the cord is valualbe for other babies in some way.
This is very strange, but then I have often heard that PhD stands for “piled higher and deeper.” A PhD in motherhood, conferred by herself? LOL! I needed to read this post as I sometimes think the world is sane, but I am so wrong!
I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara, I could save the world.
