 hey gems welcome back to my channel so based on the title you already know what this video is about so first I'm gonna show you guys how we prep the placenta to avoid it from smelling while waiting for the cord to fall off so first we rinse the placenta with water to get as much of the blood and blood clots off as possible then I applied my herb mixture at the bottom and then place the placenta on top of it then I dropped a few drops of essential oils and that included lemongrass, rosemary and lavender. I watched a few videos on how others did this but I decided to use both essential oils and dry herbs. The dry herb mixture you're seeing right now is a mixture of rosemary, thyme, spearmint and basil as well as chamomile. This mixture smelled very fragrant and would have been enough by itself but me being extra at the moment I decided to also add rose petals and lavender flowers so our entire room was just smelling very fragrant very aromatic because these dry herbs were like I said very fragrant. We're also going to be adding sea salt but we're gonna do that on the second day because the sea salt is to help dry up the placenta itself and I wanted the baby to get as much from the placenta as possible before adding anything to help dry it up so that is about it on how we prep the placenta in the next few clips you're gonna see the process of the cord drying up and the placenta falling off. If you're thinking about doing a lotus bird but concerned about it smelling just use a lot of fragrant herbs and you will have no issue. So this is day two of our lotus bird and look how much this middle part has already dried up because it's more exposed to air so right in here just has a little bit more drying to do and then of course the cord closer to his navel which is already drying up. Today we're actually gonna add sea salt to help the drying process I didn't want to add it on the first day because I wanted I wanted him to just continue to get everything possible from the placenta so last night as you see as you saw in the previous clip we only added the herbs and essential oils which just smells so it smells so good and he's been so peaceful he pretty much slept throughout the night look how much the cord has already dried this is literally just he was born literally yesterday and the cord is already pretty much dried I forgot to record changing this but all we did was take out the gauze and change the fabric and we laid this is actually our underpad that we cut and we laid more fresh herbs sea salt then we placed the placenta and then we put more sea salt and fresh herbs on top it's already so dry this is literally just one day progress is being made today is day three of this little spirit and the cord is gonna fall off at any moment probably isn't that today I'm thinking tomorrow so last night all I did was add some more essential oils to the placenta on top of the herbs today I'm gonna do a full change again in terms of changing the herbs and the padding so far so good so day five and the cord is finally off so now we're going to bury the well plant the placenta what are we doing with a tree yeah we're gonna bury it under a tree well plant a tree on top of the placenta that makes more sense right so it's now for this isn't able to heal and everything is all dried up and of course the placenta is buried under all of these herbs so we're just gonna take it out dig a hole put the placenta in and then plant the tree on top of it and I will show you guys when we're doing that which would probably be on Saturday today's Thursday so what we're gonna do with the placenta is bury it by planting a tree on top of it I'm going to buy an avocado tree from the market and we're gonna plant it in the yard in my grandmother yard so yeah he's finally free of it this was an amazing experience I'm not gonna lie however I am happy it has finally fallen off cuz it's so much easier to maneuver him so we just had our little ceremony and now we're about to plant the placenta right here still covered in herbs mind how you take it out I didn't make a river, it's a Babylonian river. It's a Babylonian river right now, it's living in a Babylonian river for too long. The placenta avocado tree, the cliff you just saw was that happening it's late but it's not midnight so you know it's still Saturday the day we did everything today, the main ceremony and planting the placenta so everything is complete so yeah, it's been a great experience I hope you guys enjoyed me sharing clips of my labor and delivery process and even though I wasn't able to show everything that I wanted to I hope you enjoyed it when I was able to share and that was me in my next video so this is baby's navel all healed up no complications, no issues, no infections, a healthy successful lotus berth so if you want to try a lotus berth but haven't second thought so are you scared to do so give it a try it was an amazing experience and it's something that I will do again I hope you guys enjoyed this video let me wrap this up before he starts to cry but don't forget to like comment and subscribe please subscribe and support me and you guys will see me in my next video you deserve it all this is perfect and it's magic and everything you do is enough