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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 6:36pm |
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Ok, after reading justmes call for recipes for "after (the) birth" and someone commenting about it being recipes for cooking up a placenta which apparently some cultures do...it got me thinking...
How many of you kept the placenta? Have you done anything with it?
I'm more nosey than anything as it is a realtivelynew concept. DF is interested in keeping ours. As long as he labels is well in the freezer (where it will probably sit for ages) I dont mind.
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 6:44pm |
We kept it. It's still in our freezer and on Brennas first birthday we are going to plant it under a tree that flowers in October. It wasn't a religious/cultural decision, my midwife had talked about the idea of keeping it when I was pregnant but we didn't decide until the actual birth. I'm pleased I've kept it and will do it again (I'm a bit scared to look at it though) 
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 6:57pm |
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We have kept it too. It in the freezer,..we want to plant it in a big pot plant so it can come with us when we move. Havent made any real plans to do this yet tho.
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:06pm |
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first time i didnt keep it was young and thought it was a grose idear but with my second we did keep it well actually my mum wanted it and we planted it under a kauri tree in a public park so nobody can chop it down. and will probally do the same with this one. but i think we will have to plant a tree for my eldest so she dosent feel left out. so we will have 3 trees growing on top of a hill so we can go and see them for many years.
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MelanieAndBree
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:27pm |
I dont think ill be keeping mine 
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:31pm |
never kept either of my boys...wasnt interested in them at all. i did ask the midwife at he hospital tho what they did with it as i didnt want them keeping it to do medical stuff with.
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:34pm |
No offence to those who kept theirs but I definitely wasn't interested in keeping that big throbbing pile of ugh!
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:36pm |
I keep the first 2 and they were buried by their papa under his tree but didnt keep Alize's thou. Things werent going well at the time and I just didnt end up keeping it  .
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:38pm |
 pepsi wrote:
No offence to those who kept theirs but I definitely wasn't interested in keeping that big throbbing pile of ugh! |
You just crack me up girl!!!!
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:39pm |
The idea of taking that home just makes me feel ill.
Hehe I'm the queasy type LOL
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:42pm |
we donated ours to medical research for the Liggins institute...signed forms day prior to c section....and made sure they were aware that is where it was going on day too
I did have misfortune of seeing the ugly fibroid they took out....ummmm gross - and it was taken away for testing too....yeah turns out that was causing a lot of pain from tests they did!!! it looked like big ugly passionfruit...and that was only one of the buggers!!!
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:55pm |
I won't be keeping this one. I really have no reason and don't feel any connection as I'll have the baby as proof something kept it alive.
Well done to those who could stomach keeping it though - I just couldn't!
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:56pm |
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I have both of mine, I checked Kaylas when it came out, the m/w showed me and even held out the clear sack part that encased her for 8 months. So fascinating! We are going to buy big pots to plant them in.
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:02pm |
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We have kept all of ours. Natasha and Alex's are buried up North on my husbands land. He's Maori so with him its a cultural thing to take the placenta back to your family land. It ties you to that land or something along those lines.
We forgot to take Alyssa's up when we went up north over Queens B'day so it's still sitting in the freezer until the next trip.
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:06pm |
Nope, I wasn't keen to even see them although with Ella's the midwife was kind enough to tell me how 'beautiful' it was
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:11pm |
Funny how some people are grossed out by it! Its the organ that gave our babies life, I find it fascinating 
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:35pm |
We didn't keep our's with Joey as we didn't own our own house and I didn't want to bury it somewhere I would be leaving...
Don't know with this one, I haven't given it much thought at this stage to be honest!
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:38pm |
We choose not to keep our's. (the hospital did leave it in our room for the 3 days we were there and when we went to leave I checked to see what the brown paper bag was argh!)
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:45pm |
I wish I had
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Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:48pm |
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I think we'll keep mine. Will probably bury it somewhere, just not sure where. My FIL is keen to bury it on some family land up north, but I'm not too keen on that idea.
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