Mother Who Left Her Newborn Baby Attached To Its Umbilical Cord And Placenta For SIX DAYS Reveals How She Carried It Around In A Cooler Bag Until It 'Naturally Fell Away'

Adele Allen (right), from Brighton, England, opted to have a lotus birth, which is the practice of leaving a newborn's umbilical cord attached (left) rather than cutting it off near the stomach. 

Mothers who choose this childbirth method have to carry around the placenta with their baby as they wait for the cord to naturally detach from their infants.