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Parents Leave Placenta Attached to Newborns For Days

Posted by khalling 12 years, 2 months ago to Culture
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Lotus Birth Supporters-
'The placenta belongs to the baby and they often spend a lot of time touching the cord in the womb, so it's a very familiar, comforting thing for them"
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SOURCE URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2432412/The-craziest-birthing-fad-lotus-birthing-newborns-left-placenta-attached-10-days.html

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 12 years, 2 months ago
    There's is so much dogma surrounding having children. Sometimes I think the problem is that after society started giving women the choice to do paid work, some of them didn't want to. Rather than say that aloud, they created a panoply of difficult things about having kids. The goal is to make it as hard as hell and justify not doing paid work.

    Obviously all people have an innate right to do what they want, doing jobs, being an at home parent, etc. Not everyone believes in freedom, though, and some may feel the need to justify what they're doing. "Natural births", breastfeeding, complicated diets, rituals, rejecting modern conveniences all work to make life really hard if that's what someone's shooting for.
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    • Posted by khalling 12 years, 2 months ago
      you bring up an interesting argument, c.
      feminists of all people, push mothers to jump back into the workforce quickly.daycare is one of those yucky "modern conveniences", in my opinion- but people need to do what they need to do.
      No one is taking care of your baby better than you or very close family and friends. EXCEPT in the case of these idiots. If I had been one of their parents I would have....well...I'm not going to tell you what I would have done
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 12 years, 2 months ago
        I guess it's a question of the definition of feminist. My idea is a true feminist would want all people's freedom respected and left alone. You can find "feminists" though who say women must do paid work. You can find "feminists" who say a woman's place is in the home, i.e. women should take back parenting from corporations who've medicalized the birthing process and sold us formula that's no where near as healthful as infants spending all their time with mom and taking the food directly from a mother who eats organic locally-grown food. That's liberal for "a woman's place is in the home." I've seen personally seen more of this than the other feminism you mention.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 12 years, 2 months ago
    Interesting. Not what I would choose but then, I'm an old guy and not into this new age stuff. The 25 minute thingy I can go with but the rest, ummmm, no.
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    • Posted by khalling 12 years, 2 months ago
      'We knew we were doing the right thing having an unassisted lotus birth, but our parents were worried and that in turn made me feel stressed'
      LOLOLOLOLOL
      the poor baby

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