Lotus births.

jnette, ASN, EMT-I · Oct 8, 2003

Originally posted by dawngloves
A dingo ate my baby's placenta. :chuckle

so we ate the dingo !

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 8, 2003

another dingo had puppies....

took the placentas before she could eat them..'

why waste so MANY wonderful sacs/placentas after all?

so many wonderful uses.

dawngloves, BSN, RN · Oct 8, 2003

so we ate the dingo

:roll :roll :roll

Oh please! Stop!!!! This is too much!

Dixen81 · Oct 8, 2003

Originally posted by SmilingBluEyes
how perfectly nauseating.

omg.

My words exactly.

Kept it in the freezer for a year to bury it? Dug it up when they moved? Sweetest fruit her neighbor had ever eaten? YUCK!!!!!

Dixen81 · Oct 8, 2003

I forgot about the part where she saved part of the cord to give to her child when she is older...WHY WOULD SHE EVEN WANT IT????

colleen10 · Oct 8, 2003

WHY WOULD SHE EVEN WANT IT????

(Sarcastically) Because, PeggySue, her children were irrevocably harmed by being prematurely seperated from their "love-heart thing" and it "hurt their heart" to be seperated from it.

Wouldn't you want to keep it forever and ever and ever...................even if it did rot and attract cats?

Shellsie · Oct 8, 2003

i think if we are gonna all keep placentas until they fall off we could but it and the baby matching outfits...dress it up in a bonnet and everything...make it a part of the family like siamese twins....

then when it falls off you can put it in the baby book like the first locke of hair ;)

kids · Oct 8, 2003

When I saw this thread, somehow I just knew dawngloves had found *the* lotus birth site.

Dayray, RN · Oct 9, 2003

Man, I thought I was open minded but this just blows my mind open. I could handle and even see some of the sentimental/ symbolic value of barring the placenta under a tree. Even though It gives me the willies, I can respect the culture of those that must (yuk) eat it.

BUT.. this is just to weird and far fetched for me.

If you look at things threw the eyes of the natural birth advocates, you can usually see some benefit to doing things the way they do but what good could come of this?

As for the possible health effects to the baby, my thoughts are. #1 infection, I mean the placenta is just the best place for bacteria to grow, warm and wet. placed in a bag it would be nice and dark. and OMG its attached to the baby.

#2 hemorrhage, a good yank on that cord could be nasty.

#3 Anemia or polycythimia, I read a study on clamping the cord only after it stopped pulsing and polycythimia was the main problem.

#4 and the biggest reason, THE CATS THE CATS OMG!!! THE CATS

lol could you imagine what the L&D units would be like? cats sneaking up the back hallway, ambushing mothers and babies as they exited the hospital, dressing up in scrubs and impersonating nurses .....

cannoli · Oct 9, 2003

It's a good thing she didn't have a dog.

CTRN1 · Oct 9, 2003

You guys are all too funny....I read about this years ago, couldnt understand it any better then.

I am a big advocate for natural bith but this takes the cake I do have to say, you cant get much grosser!

As a side note, on the topic of eating placenta, besides cultural reasons, I had read somewhere that it is believed that eating the placenta following delivery can help minamize bleeding, much like giving pitocin. I can't remember how it worked but a lot of people do this instead of meds. Again to each their own. You couldnt pay me to eat placenta, I would rather take my changes hommorhaging!!!!!

dawngloves, BSN, RN · Oct 9, 2003

Originally posted by Dayray
#4 and the biggest reason, THE CATS THE CATS OMG!!! THE CATS

lol could you imagine what the L&D units would be like? cats sneaking up the back hallway, ambushing mothers and babies as they exited the hospital, dressing up in scrubs and impersonating nurses .....

Dayray!!!!:roll

I am thinking the same thing. I'm as open as the next guy, but come on!!! Love heart???? Isn't it more like a liver than a heart??I posted this here thinking that maybe someone had a different perspective on this. But you all just confirmed my suspicions....

THIS REALLY WEIRD!!!!!:chuckle