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Dr Sarah Buckley has written a lovely article which appears in the latest
"Mothering" magazine citing Michel Odent and giving a very full account of the
intricate play of the different hormones (including oxytocin) during each stage
of birth - what occurs without and with intervention. The article is entitled
"Ecstatic Birth" and it's great.
For more wonderful information about third stage possibilities...see"Lotus
Birth" - edited by Shivam Rachana (email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ).
Lotus birth is giving birth without clamping or cutting the cord, simply
leaving baby and placenta attached until the cord dries up and separates from
the baby. Hundreds of lotus births have taken place in America, Australia and
New Zealand - at home, in birth centres and in hospital labour wards (even for
caesarian births - which means the baby has a lot more of it's own blood
available to it after a traumatic birth experience).
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