Re: Birth announcement--umbilical cord!!!?

[Rebecca Allbritton]

At 10:08 AM 1/14/00 -0700, Michelle Haines wrote:
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>You will want to leave it until it stops pulsing so the infant gets the
>proper blood supply.  The infection risk, I'm not so sure about, but
>that could get into a whole discussion over a weird thing called lotus
>birth that is really off-topic.  Basically, if the placenta remains
>clean, it wouldn't cause infection, but it probably isn't feasible to
>keep it that clean in a gerbil cage.

C'mon, Michelle, go for it. =) What's a lotus birth?

Rebecca...