Robin Lim's Placenta

One of my mentors and dear friends wrote a book recently entitled, "Placenta, The Forgotten Chakra". The illustrations, photographs and words are all world changing graphics. I am only a few pages into the book and already being wowed over and over. Also, there are concepts explained in such clear language that I am finally understanding them deeper. The story of her dog, Madu giving birth to nine puppies and reviving the still-born pup by stimulating the pup's body and placenta is as awe-some as when it happened to a newborn human babe the same week!

You will want to get a copy of this book asap. If you are going to the MANA Conference in Nashville, you can hear her speak and pick one up there. Here are a few qoutes that stick out to me so far:


"The natural process of bringing new human life into the world became a medical event in which the mother-to-be was hospitalized, drugged and the baby was delivered from her, not by her."

"Medicine became divorced from nature and forgot to respect the diversity of human culture and tradition. Somehow in the application of such efficiency, we lost our humanity at the fulcrum of the most tender of life’s moments: the birth of a child."

It may not even be assed whether everyone is ready for the umbilical cord to be cut; it is just assumed and done very soon after the baby's body is born. Lim reminds us to pause and asses:

"At birth, it is important to be sure that the baby, placenta, mother and family are truly ready for the umbilical cord to be cut."

"Following parturition (birth) the placenta falls neatly away from the shrinking uterine wall and is born approximately eleven to twenty minutes after the baby. The birth of the placenta is best accomplished without complications if the mother is properly nourished and has the energy reserves necessary to accomplish this third stage of labor."