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The real question about safety is not whether you want a pleasant birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital ? It is, “Do you want to give birth at home and run the miniscule risk of an emergency that might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital, or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky interventions?”) ~ Henri Goer

Members of the home birth movement have chosen their alternative form of care not through faulty understanding of medical principles, but as a result of active and reasoned disagreement with them. ~ Bonnie O’Connor

 

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Cord Burning

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Cord Burning

The umbilicus is the entry place to all abdominal organs. It is the core. by heating it and driving the last of the blood in there you are giving a profoundly tonic treatment for the baby who has just run a marathon.

 

It would reduce the risk of bleeding and entry of infections. You are warming digestion which will reduce the tendency for jaundice, besides just creating a strong baby which means a good nurser.

 

Colostrum as we know aids in setting up the digestive system and binds the iron in the gut. This stops them from reabsorbing the iron and eliminating it with healthy bowel movements from a healthier baby. 

To burn the cord

    • Wrap the baby in a receiving blanket with just the cord out and use a piece of cardboard( we line it with aluminum foil on the side away from the baby) and just cut the cardboard so that it fits just around the cord closest to the baby. so they don't feel the heat.
    • Make sure to leave about 5 inches from the baby. And when you burn it, the cord stays hot for just a minute, make sure that it doesn't touch the baby.
    • Make sure that it finishes all the way through. Pull it gently apart and then you get to the areas that need the burn. Rotate it in a circle...slowly.
    • It takes about 10 minutes for a thick cord and less for a thin one.
    • It is sooooo easy. Sometimes midwives that are trying the first time, make it too hard. It is easy and don't over think it. Make sure that the cord is completely cauterized.