I Don't Agree With Lotus Birthing ... I'll Tell You Why

I Don't Agree With Lotus Birthing ... I'll Tell You Why

By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee/@GeeGranny on Twitter

A nurse told me to shut up ... I didn't know how to have a baby ... I was a baby, myself. Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee








I was watching The Doctors this morning.  I watched about having babies ... naturally.  Not only that ... leaving the cord/placenta attached to the baby ... letting it 'rot' off the baby naturally.






The placenta is laid aside with the cord leading to the newborn baby's belly ... where it begins to decay.  The woman sprinkled flower petals, and such to ... keep down the smell.






Why was this done?  To make sure the baby gets all the blood ... 'for a greater transfer of iron- and oxygen-rich blood to the newborn baby'.  The cord can stay attached upwards to three to ten days.






Can you imagine each time changing a baby's diaper having to move the placenta all around to do it?  Work around it to care for the baby?






It's called 'lotus birth'.  'A new trend in natural birthing methods strives to ease a baby's transition into the world by not detaching the cord and placenta immediately following birth.'





I copied/pasted several things here in quotation marks to share.  The link to all this is:  http://www.treehugger.com/family/lotus-birth-advocates-leave-umbilical-cord-attached-newborn-babies.html






I was listening to the doctors talk about doing this.  They didn't seem to agree on this way of birthing. Infection, death of  baby could happen ... not counting the 'dead' placenta laying around.






I listened because they also, discussed something else ... that could cause serious life-threatening complications for a mother in labor.  In fact, I thought of myself when I had my only child ... I had complications ... would have died in childbirth ... baby, too.






You can read for yourself to decide what you think.  I know back when I had my baby ... it would have spelled doom for me and unborn baby.  No two births are alike.





A nurse told me to shut up ... I didn't know how to have a baby ... I was a baby, myself. Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee







Note by this Author:




When I had my child ... I carried him for 10 months ... my labor was induced on a Monday on November 17th ... I suffered until the morning of November 20th at 11:28 am... when they seemed to have a hard time deciding to make me have my child ... or take it.




They made me have my baby.  He was a big baby ... I had many stitches.  I went through total Hell to have my child ... so, did my baby ... his head, face had bruises all over from the forceps to pull him.




I don't think the 'lotus birthing naturally ' ... would have been a good thing for mothers in the same situation I ... as a young mother ... was in.  Death would have been certain.  I couldn't have had a child ... naturally.




This author chose never to have other children because of the God-awful experience of having the one, only child she had.  Not only that ... at the time I was in the room in labor I was holding my pain, crying so, I wouldn't make a noise ... when it became impossible to hold back cries ... a nurse told me to 'shut up because I would upset the other women in labor'.





My hands had bite marks on them ... I was terrified ... no one told me anything about how ... to have a baby ... I was a young girl.  If I hadn't had medical help ... I'd died in childbirth ... so, would have my baby.  Not all childbirths are easy ...





Photo/true story ... and what I wrote about from watching The Doctors in my words ... owned, written by me ... Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee.