Lotus birth, a ritual for our times
Lotus Birth is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut, so that the baby is attached to its placenta until the cord naturally emerges from the navel, between three and ten days after birth, just like a umbilical cord has been cut at birth. This prolonged contact can be viewed as a transition time, allowing the baby away from her marriage to the mother’s body in a smooth and gradual. Although we have no written records of cultures that do not cut the cord umbilidal, many traditional peoples have the placenta in high esteem. For example, the Maori of New Zealand’s placenta is buried in an ancient ritual meeting place, and the Hmong, a tribe of South East Asia, believe that the placenta must be retrieved after death to ensure physical integrity in the next life . The Hmong baby’s placenta is buried inside the house where they were born. Lotus birth is a new ritual, which before 1974 had been described only in chimpanzees. Clair was then Lotus Day, pregnant and living in California, began to question the routine cutting the umbilical cord. Her search led her to an obstetrician sensitive to their wishes. His son Trimurti was born in a hospital and returned home with the umbilical cord uncut. Lotus birth practice is named Clair, and his seed went on to Jeanine Parvati Baker in the U.S., and Shivam Rachana in Australia, who were strong advocates of this practice. Since 1974, many babies are born this way, at home or in hospitals, land and water, and even by cesarean section. Lotus birth is a beautiful and logical extension of natural childbirth, an invitation to claim the so-called third stage of labor, delivery, for ourselves and for our babies, and to honor the placenta, the primary source of food for our children. The birth of Zoe Lotus I experienced Lotus birth with my second daughter and my children following after I have been fascinated by it during my second pregnancy through my contact with Shivam Rachana and its Center for Human Transformation (Centre for Human Transformation-CHT), in Yarra Glen, near Melbourne, Australia. The Lotus nacmiento sense to me at that time, because I remembered my experinecias in hospital obstetric services, and the strange and uncomfortable sensation of cutting fleshy and cartilaginous cord connecting the baby to the placenta and mother. For me, the feeling was like cutting a finger without bones, and I loved the idea of avoiding the court when my baby was born. Thanks to the CHT, I talked with women who had decided not to cut the cord of their babies, and had lived a beautiful postnatal period
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