By Lisa Barrett on November 17, 2009
I am preparing a talk on placenta’s for the Joyous birth festival and I thought I’d like to share these pictures together just to illustrated the diversity of life.
The Cord connects the placenta to the baby and usually has 2 arteries and 1 vein running through it. It’s covered in Wharton’s jelly which is a mucous [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on November 2, 2009
Twice in the last few weeks a baby has been born with a true knot in the cord. This is not a common occurrence and so having two is interesting especially since they only live a few streets apart. For people into quantum physics and epigenetics I wonder if there is some external link? A true Knot [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on April 15, 2009
Making a placenta remedy is of interest to many here are some simple instructions with thanks to this fantastic woman for sharing her birth with me and sharing her placenta remedy with you.
Photo Number Notes
The bottles I am using to make the placenta remedy.
Sterilising the bottle & lid in Milton’s solution.
Quinn with his placenta.
The maternal side [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on January 12, 2009
I have written plenty of things about the third stage in previous posts. Here is a short video of a recent water birth after the client has pushed out her placenta in the water, me putting it in a bowl. For people who have never thought about the third stage it is a good opportunity to check it [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on August 29, 2008
Even though the placenta is often poo poo’d as not important by so many, for the rest of us the process surrounding the dignity and reverence of such a great life giving organ is important.
I was lucky enough to be invited along to a special ceremony to celebrate the placenta and return it to the earth.
The following was first presented [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on August 23, 2008
Here is an article about a baby born on an Air New Zealand Flight which I picked up from Sarah Stewarts blog.
The Air New Zealand plane was approaching Auckland International Airport when the woman went into labour and gave birth soon afterwards.
A couple of nurses on the flight tended to the woman and used shoe laces to tie off the [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on August 3, 2008
Grant made some very interesting comments on lotus birth.
For those of you who haven’t read them I thought they were worth putting in the main blog.
In 1971, after long term observation, Jane Goodall gave the first account of Chimpanzees leaving the cord intact, and carying the placenta with the newborn chimp.
Her account in “In The Shadow of Man” also indicates [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on July 8, 2008
Before birth the baby sits surrounded by liquor and inside your uterus. The baby is grown and kept alive by you using the most amazing organic process and the placenta. The fleshy part of the placenta is attached to your uterus by villi. These tiny hairlike structures provide maximum efficiency and contact with the mothers blood. It’s like the border [...]
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By Lisa Barrett on May 22, 2008
One of the comments on cord care from Janie was about the ties. I use silks and platt them together then sterilise them. I couldn’t post pictures into the comment section so here are some examples of them.
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By Lisa Barrett on May 20, 2008
Newborn cord care appears to be a topic of conversation for new mothers.
After the birth the cord remains attached to the placenta, if you decide to have a lotus birth then you don’t cut the cord. The vessels have usually shut themselves off between 20/30 mins later and it is of course up to you if you decide to separate [...]
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