'I refused to have my baby's umbilical cord cut': The rise of 'lotus births' where parents believe severing the placenta immediately after birth is distressing for the baby, so let it 'fall off naturally'

It might sound strange, but the practice of not cutting your baby's umbilical cord - also known as giving your child a lotus birth - is on the rise. 



The Daily Mail previously revealed 30-year-old, Emma Jean Nolan, from Brisbane, who photographed Jolene Spies, from Canterbury, New Zealand's, newborn baby with his placenta and umbilical cord spelling out the word 'love'. And now someone else has stepped forward and spoken about their alternative way to bring a child into the world. Mum of one Kim Vale admitted to Australian Women's Weekly that her first encounter with a placenta was when it was attached to her sister's newborn during her lotus birth