Lotus birth?

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So I’ve been seeing a lot of women do this lately and was just wondering what some of your thoughts were on it? I kinda want to do it with my child. I don’t see anything wrong with it health wise🤷🏼‍♀️

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I personally would not do a lotus birth, but there are significant health benefits to waiting even 5 minutes after the birth of baby and placenta to cut the cord. I would request to wait 5-10 minutes to have the cord cut, but carrying a decaying placenta around? Leaving a decaying organ attached to your newborn? No thanks.

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This is gross, you're lugging around a huge dead piece of flesh. There is no need for that.  Delayed cord clamping of  a few minutes is just fine.

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Since the placenta had no blood supply after it’s birthed , it’s dead tissue. Dead tissue starts to smell and decompose. With this there is a big risk of infection, and risk of infection to a newborn is quickly dangerous . If it were me, I would not do a lotus birth.

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Seems kinda gross... haha