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iflie

Oow baby...

Sep 29, 2009 21:26

From I didn't know I was pregnant:

"Amazingly without any drugs D gives birth vaginally..."Myeah, human females have been giving birth for aprox. 100.000 years and suddenly it doesn't happen without drugs!? Though I have heard American programs claim similar things, how amazing it is that a woman would give birth without medical attention. (Maybe ( Read more... )

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pixietulip September 30 2009, 13:17:25 UTC

6 hours is nothing! For first babies it's usually 10 or more hours. Subsequent babies are quicker (my sisters second was like a bullet!) because you've already been stretched once, but the afterpains are worse ( ... )

iflie October 1 2009, 22:42:06 UTC

Yeah the recovery of a normal birth is a few days but with a c-section they slice through very sensitive tissues and muscles that will have to heal. Plus afterwards you can get pains from scar tissue. It really is for emergencies only.

LOL imagine carrying the placenta around with the baby. Yuck. There is always a bit of cord that gets left on and drops off after a few days but that's natural. It doesn't rot like the placenta might.

If I ever have a baby I think I would like to keep the cord to harvest the blood for the stemcells. In case it ever needs them.

Myeah hippies can be very unnatural, like when they go vegetarian.

~Iflie

pixietulip October 2 2009, 02:21:20 UTC

Apparently they carried the placenta in a towel. Yuck. I imagine it would've been very awkward having when handing the baby over and breast feeding because if you didn't keep the placenta close enough the weight of it would pull on the baby's stomach.

The cord can rot a bit - my neice's went a bit smelly and manky before it dropped off. Depends on how much air gets to it and how dry it is kept (which can be abit hard when the baby is clothed all the time)

iflie October 2 2009, 11:41:36 UTC

I guess it depends on how long the cord is. But hell those people were insane.

Maybe the cord started to smell because they got it wet while bathing, normally a baby would be far less clothed so the air would dry the cord enough for it not to be an issue as with all other mammals. But you can't keep a kid clean and warm without a bath and clothing. I think I would try dousing the thing with babypowder just in case some moisture got in. And any baby has to be free from diapers and clothes as much as possible, much better for their skin and any diaper rash.

Most newborns smell great though so it must not be that common that it rots.

~Iflie

pixietulip October 2 2009, 14:23:12 UTC

The whole better to be free of clothes and nappies is fine in theory but so great in practise when the baby is born in winter and is so small it has trouble keeping heat in! Nope no baby powder on it - that's a way to get infection too. I thik it's not common, but it's not uncommon either and it's not a really bad smell, just when you lifted it up to dry it and stuff. Like piercings only smell bad if you actually go right close, or belly buttons only smell bad if you stick your finger in there and smell it!

iflie October 2 2009, 14:45:47 UTC

Like I said to keep the baby warm you have to use clothes. But even in winter there are options for having the baby be naked unless you don't have adequate heating installed. Newborns are more fragile than a few months old, at that age I do have a few pics of me on a blanket in the yard on a sunny day ( ... )

pixietulip October 3 2009, 03:16:43 UTC

Yeah I was agreeing with you :)

I actually looked this up and you shouldn't use talcum powder on the umbilical cord because it can be an irritant.

My nose piercings don't smell too hot but my nose is a pretty damp area (but again it's only if I mess around with them). I've noticed sometimes when I take out earrings that have been in you ears a looong time and they have little bits of build up on them they can be smelly. Apparently those extender piercings some people have in their ears can be quite unpleasant.

Eeew people could smell it through their t-shirt! Even if they didn't care what about the general population! Have you heard of that guy who collected his belly button lint in jars? I bet that stinks if you open the jar lid.

pixietulip October 3 2009, 03:19:12 UTC

That was me being unsigned in. Oops.

iflie October 3 2009, 09:53:57 UTC

Hm I didn't know that about regular talcum powder, just about the mentholated stuff I sometimes like to use. Sometimes I'd use that on itchy spots that get left after I shave, which means it can get on the rest of the crotch area and that isn't always pleasant. (though not as bad as alcohol deodorant on your freshly shaven pit, yikes ( ... )

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