Placenta
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Topic: Placenta
Posted By: fire_engine
Subject: Placenta
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 3:46pm
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What did you do/are planning to do with your placenta? I don't have any strong beliefs about the placenta, but have just realised what a bloody amazing thing it is, and don't know if I want to send it to be incinerated. Could you plant them at the bottom of a large pot and then put a tree on in (in case we move)? ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
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Posted By: nekes
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 4:18pm
| what does it do to the garden?? so many people do this..... im not keeping mine cuz i dont see the use for it after its out lol |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 4:25pm
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I didn't keep mine, I just figured it had served its purpose and could be discarded. But then I would feel the same if they removed my kidney or something as well.
My mw told me that a lot of people plant them up on the port hills in christchurch. And I think that our AN teacher told us they can kill trees if you plant them directly under (I could be mistaken though) ------------- 
 
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 4:35pm
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yeah, am not sure why I'm not so keen on throwing it out. I like your logic - if my leg was amputated, I wouldn't be keeping it!! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: monster
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 5:31pm
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We planted ours with a tree as part of his naming ceremony. We actually planted the placenta a couple of hours earlier and put a thin layer of soil over it, then did the tree at the end of the ceremony. -------------   
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 5:56pm
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ew I got mine taken away.. I honestly dont think I would have been able to stomach looking at it! ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: happymumma
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 6:20pm
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My SIL has buried two (or was planning to the last time we talked about it!) with a small garden on top.
I guess if you found out which plants like iron rich soil it might be quite succesful? We're not planning on keeping this one - although I like your idea monster. I'm not sure why but I just don't feel any particular attachment to it although I'm very grateful for the job it's doing currently! |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 6:21pm
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I wasn't interested in keeping the first one, but I think I might keep the second one and eat it...
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 7:03pm
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Ewww Pepsi!
I wrote an article on placentas a while ago and some of the things people do with placentas are just freaky, in China it's traditional to dry it and make it into capsules for the mother to take for the first x number of days post partum. We buried Maya's, and will bury the gremlins when we get around to it, atm it's in the freezer still. Will prob bury it with baby's one, and the baby we lost, up at Willie's family homestead near Helensville. He is Maori so keeping the placenta is not optional, they believe that what comes from the earth must be returned to the earth as a thanks for the safe delivery of the baby. I kinda like that reasoning too. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 7:05pm
eew i dont want mine lol, I said to my midwife Id like to see it afterwards but i dont want to keep it....I would just like to take the baby home thanks ------------- |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:12pm
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We didn't keep the placenta but I was fascinated to see this thing that had kept my baby alive for nearly 40 weeks so my midwife showed it to me when she did the check. I have friends who are surfers and they kept their babies placenta and awhile after the birth paddled out to sea and sunk it. -------------  
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Posted By: Joelle
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:18pm
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I'm the same as CadensMum - have asked to see it but don't want to keep it ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 8:31pm
Emma I thought it was bad enough that the placenta was sitting in your freezer (and presumably clearly marked!!!  ) at all, let alone for over a year! Go out and bury it, woman!
And totally gross about the Chinese pills. Ugh. I don't like even looking at the thing, I don't really care what the hospital wants to do with it except for (a) me not eating it in any form and (b) me not seeing it either! I thought that burying the placenta was good for the nutrients in the soil. ------------- |
Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 14 June 2008 at 9:00pm
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emma, I like the sentiment.
my fear would be my labrador digging it back up again
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