Lotus Birth

Benefits to delayed clamping and severance of the umbilical cord for the newly incarnated soul into flesh.

A Lotus Birth is one during which the umbilical is not cut.

Ever.

The placenta and child are left attached until the umbilical cord naturally detaches.

Herbs, essential oils and salts are applied to assist in the drying process. The umbilical cord usually comes off on its own 3 - 10 days postpartum. The placenta is kept in a little pouch and goes around with the newborn.

It is a gentler, non-violent form of birth.

“Lotus birthed children appear more calm and healthy than their counterparts whose cords are immediately cut. They receive quite a bit of extra blood, rich in nutrients and oxygen, that boosts their immune system. The placenta helps their liver by filtering toxins from the baby’s blood. Their navals heal faster, and they can have their first bath sooner. The experience is gentler on the child and very special for all involved.”

World Health Organization protocols and all modern global obstetricians, nurse-midwives, and medics are
taught “active management” of this phase of birth, even in drug-free, totally natural, healthy births that have
had no previous medical interference.  This protocol, which began when medicated hospital births became the
norm in the 1950s, is to inject oxytoxic drugs (such as methergine) in the mother’s thigh soon after the head is
born (to increase contractions), then clamp the cord within 1-5 minutes of the baby’s birth if not immediately,
and then pull out the placenta by tugging on the cord rather than passively support the healthy mother-baby
innate and spontaneous process of “Third Stage” labor.

The “active management” of this part of labor actually increases stress rather than reduces it (all non-drugged
babies cry when the cord is severed, even in more passively managed midwifery births) and physiologically
compromises the baby in a very sensitive time of transition of the “primal-adaptive” period along with
introducing further risk of uterine prolapse or retained placenta in the mother.