Lotus Birth

Purchasing "Lotus Birth"

The DVD

"The Lotus Birth is a beautiful testament to the power of natural birth. The image of the Malcolm twins emerging from their mother's womb and being given time to unfold into the warm water that enveloped them is one that will inspire and delight parents and birth professionals alike."

Vicki Abrams: Childbirth Educator, Doula, and Co-author of Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth.

Natural Birth

LOTUS BIRTH is a call to pay attention to the natural physiological process. It's practice, through witnessing, restores faith in the natural order.

LOTUS BIRTH extends the birth time into the sacred days that follow and enables baby, mother and father and all family members to pause, reflect and engage in nature's conduct.

LOTUS BIRTH is a call to return to the rhythms of nature, to witness the natural order and to the experience of not doing, just being.

The Book

"LOTUS BIRTH is an educational tool generous in resource and reference. It gives us the who, the why, the how to, and the implications for humankind if we don't slowdown and make a radical paradigm shift. These people have!"

Binnie A Dansby: Author, Philosopher And Psychotherapist Specializing In Pre And Perinatal Psychology. (www.ecstaticbirth.com)

Practicing Lotus Birth

"Lotus birth is the practice of leaving the umbilical cord uncut, so that the baby remains attached to the placenta until the cord naturally separates at the navel - exactly as a cut cord does - at three to ten days after birth. This prolonged contact can be seen as a time of transition, allowing the baby to slowly and gently let go of the attachment to the mother's body."

Dr. Sarah Buckley, Pregnancy Magazine, Spring 1998

Purchasing Lotus Birth: The DVD

LOTUS BIRTH: the Water Birth of the Malcolm Twins is a rare and extraordinary film that shows a family preparing for the birth of twins.
The home footage records a natural birth. The babies are born into water, one breech, both keeping their placentas intact.
This film restores birth to it's proper place in family life.
A radical and controversial film, it is a welcome antidote to medicalised institutionalised birth.

Feature Length: 80 mins; Special Features: 4 hrs; multi zone DVD PAL, Cost Aus$45 & p+p. To buy this DVD, click here.

Purchasing the Lotus Birth book

Compiled by Shivam Rachana, Lotus Birth contains many case histories, photographic illustrations and writings by health professionals.

"At last Shivam Rachana has gathered together the Lotus Birth lore from around the world so that we might welcome babies more fully by honoring the fourth stage of labour. This book is destined to be a classic in the conscious birth literature and will re-earth the evolution of humanity by its invitation to explore Eros' museum, the placenta. Being a grandmother and a midwife, I am by nature quite patient yet I think 6,000 years is long enough to remember the original Tree of Life. I am grateful to Rachana for co-creating this volume of wisdom, so that we can become the families the Earth wants now. I hope anyone who is called to heal the Earth by healing birth, as well as anyone who was born and who cares about our future, will read and share the beauty of this book."
Jeannine Parvati Baker: author of 'Prenatal Yoga & Natural Birth'; 'HYGIEIA-A Woman's Herbal'; 'Conscious Conception'; and 'Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality' (with Frederick Baker).

A world-first, this book is a groundbreaking work for parents, midwives, obstetricians and other health professionals working with pregnancy and birth.

Cost is Aus$30 & p+p. To buy this book, click here.

"I was awestruck with your honesty, courage and strength when birthing your twins. Thankyou so much for sharing such intimate details of your life with a wider audience. You are a truly inspirational and amazing woman."
-Jo Hunter: Coordinator of Homebirth Access Sydney (HAS) and Homebirth Australia