Keeping Placentas

It's a funny old topic, the idea of keeping your placenta makes you either super squemsh or it just seems right!

I brought my placenta home when baby was born 6 months ago, yes it's currently still in my freezer! We're renting short term so we'd like to plant it in a pot, has anyone done this?
What plants thrive from the nutrient rich soil? Did you decompose the placenta in the soil before introducing the plant?

i really wish i had of done this.
i wont for this baby either though as i didnt for my first two and want to be consistant...i'm kicking myself.
i too am renting so a pot is a great idea...even when you do own a place and need to replant that will be their exclusive tree.
you can just bury and plant straight on top as this is what my cousins all do. we ahve a family bach in coromandel that we all plant our placentas at (as alot of us are renting)
its real cool as we now have about 12 years of family births there and a real groove of native trees growing around the poperty...and the kids know which tree is theirs of course.

I'm glad other people still have theirs in the freezer. >.>

We're renting as well, so our plan is to bury it in native bush at my dad's beach place in Thames (preferably with a view of the glow worms). No idea what to plant over it though...

We still have Josh's in the freezer, still waiting for the right place to plant and what to plant as well. One day we will get around to it.

Haha, you just reminded me about it sitting in the freezer!
We are going to take ours home to my parents farm in the north island and I want a Kowhai tree planted over it as its DD's middle name

Slightly OT, but it also actually reminds me of a photo my MW showed DH and I after DD's birth, of a lady in the UK that she looked after biting into the placenta she had just given birth to - She just wanted to know what it was like apparently hehehehe

Haha, Lisa my DH said the exact same thing!

We decided not to with either....no major reason (well apart from when my sister plented a tree over my nephews one and then the tree died, seemed like a bad omen!) we did plant a family tree at my parents for all the grandkids (with nothing under)

I can go one better - not only do I still have two placentae (one double one even lol) in my freezer, I also have our angel baby in a bedside drawer. The plan is to bury them all together at Willie's turangawaewae, for a long time I wasn't emotionally ready to bury baby but now I am, just haven't gotten around to it (= lazy )

We are with Emma, when DH suggested it I was like EWWW but I'm gald we did now.

Both of our placentas will be buried with dogs & in a part of my parents place in Turangi. They built there when I was little & it's always been a place close to my heart. It will also be kept in our family as well.

I still have Cooper's placenta in the freezer & I still have my last dogs ashes up at Turangi. It takes me a long time to come to terms to bury them. This one will be a private with only the 4 of us as the dog meant so much to me & he was in Alia's life as well where as the previous one was PTS when I was pregnant with her. I was meant to bury him when I was preg but I could not do it without DH being part of it. I'm glad I waited, these two dogs I see are part of my kids guardian angels.

In saying that I'm not sure I'm ready yet.

Wow, that's awesome QHX, I love it!

We have buried it in our graden with a magnolia tree on top. We planted the tree as part of his naming ceremony, having already placed the placenta in with a thin covering of soil an hour or so before the ceremony.