Apologies If This Has Been Mentioned Before

[Bathsheba]

but can you believe this?? What herb will they use if one of kids got meningitis, god forbid.

They've even set up a Just Giving page for folk to donate money to them!
Unbelievable.

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/off-grid-mum-defends-daughter-peeing-live-on-tv-095847138.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

[scorpiojo]

Why would anyone carry a placenta around in a bag?

[Old_Geezer]

Because it is so messy to carry it around in your hand.

[scorpiojo]

:))

[Mamyalynne]

The original was posted but centred more about the leaking nappy incident during the TV interview.

'Off grid' parenting is fine until as you say something major goes wrong - I wish them well but won't be donating to their travel fund.


The Lotus birth (or umbilical nonseverance) is more common than we think.

Each to their own.

[Islay]

You know it's their choice and should anything happen they will have to live with it.

[douglas9401]

"Why would anyone carry a placenta around in a bag?"

Well I suppose because the 5p charge for a placenta bag is hardly prohibitive.

[scorpiojo]

:)))

[RandyMarsh]

we all understand that we lived like this for thousands of years don't we?

[anneasquith]

No. Randy, we didnt have plastic bags !!!

[scorpiojo]

:))))

[Butterbun]

I think scorpiojo is having a giggling fit.

[scorpiojo]

Yep :)

[Mamyalynne]

Not sure I'm grasping the obsession with the bag it's kept in - just me being slow probably.

[douglas9401]

We also dumped our waste in a collective midden and went round the back of our mud hut to evacuate our bowel and yet we've managed to improve on that stuff too Randolph.
It's progress.

[scorpiojo]

Sorry, my fault for mentioning it

[Mamyalynne]

No, not at all, I rather doubt 'off gridders' would stoop to use a supermarket carrier bag, rather weave one and decorate accordingly.


Or there are plenty on E Bay.

[scorpiojo]

LOL...LOL

[anneasquith]

Jo. Have you been at the sherry ? :-)

[stuey]

I wouldn't be surprised that very soon a large group of these "off-gridders" will flock together and do something which has never been heard of before: Live together as one large happy, self-sustained family in something called a commune.

[douglas9401]

I suppose for placenta portability a 'bag for life' would be better.

Much more womby.