Rachel Westfall

Rachel Westfall is a doctoral candidate and pregnancy self-care researcher at the University of Victoria. She has two small children; her youngest was Lotus-born.

An Ethnographic Account Of Lotus Birth

When I see one of my Lotus birth babies gingerly holding her cord, I feel the goodness of leaving them intact. Her cord, his placenta, the baby’s companion in the womb, who has sustained mother and child through pregnancy, has shared the baby’s magical prenatal world.

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