to feel like you're more involved, maybe...

to symbolically become the one who is responsible for looking after the child and feeding it. In fact, in cutting the cord, you become the child's new funiculus umbilicalis - the channel through which the infant will receive everything it needs to survive in this cruel cruel world.

and it's all a bit of fun, innit.

Posted By: Dave in Switzerland, Oct 16, 13:19:18