Lotus Birth Stories2022-05-10T13:33:36+10:00

Lotus Birth Stories

In this section of our website you can read stories about other parents’ experiences of Lotus Birth. Pregnancy and birth stories are a great way to learn about situations similar or different to your own. We’d love you to send us your own story to share with others.

Lotus Birth by Lavendilly

Rosella was our lotus birth baby. We had considered the idea with Kaelan, and I had even prepared a beautiful silk bag, with a lotus painted on it, to keep his placenta in. We had bought the salt and had everything ready … but still, we had reservations about it. I was still having issues getting over the ‘ick’ factor. As it happened, Kaelan was born by emergency cesarean and so the decision about whether to lotus birth or

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Lotus Birth – Leaving Umbilical Cord Uncut

Lotus birth is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut, so that the baby remains attached to his/her placenta until the cord naturally separates at the umbilicus- exactly as a cut cord does- at 3 to 10 days after birth. This prolonged contact can be seen as a time of transition, allowing the baby to slowly and gently let go of his/her attachment to the mother's body. Although we have no written records of cultures that leave

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Jayden Singh Cheema Natural Home Lotus Birth

Verena and Bobby are excited to welcome their first son Jayden Singh Cheema into this wonderful world. He was born on Thursday the 30th of June 2011 at 3:58 am through a natural home-lotus birth at 41 weeks (49 cm and 3 kg). We are very thankful for the guidance, calmness, support and wisdom we received from our midwife Rachele Meredith. Jayden is an amazing, grounded, alert and healthy child and we are so thankful, overjoyed and blessed to

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The Home-Water-Lotus Birth of Lukas Singh Cheema

Verena and Bobby are excited to welcome their second son Lukas Singh Cheema into this wonderful world. He was born on Wednesday the 19th of June 2013 at 12.40pm through a natural home-lotus birth in water at 38 ½ weeks (49 cm and 2.9 kg). We are very thankful for this empowering birth experience and overjoyed to have Lukas, a very amazing, calm, alert and healthy child, in our lives. Contributors Verena Raschke-Cheema and Bobby Singh Cheema live in

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Nathanael’s birth story

Nathanael John Broadbent was born at 5:49 am on Friday 20 June 2008. It was a full moon. We celebrated the full moon the night before with our traditional family ceremony. Our oldest son Benjamin had laid out the Balinese Kris (a ceremonial dagger) and some other ceremonial pieces on John’s sarong – candles, crystals, feathers, an Amazonian head-dress, a Shamanic eagle and emu feather stick from Uluru. We lit all the beautiful coloured candles leftover from Benjamin’s naming

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