Keeping Placentas
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Topic: Keeping Placentas
Posted By: Mamama
Subject: Keeping Placentas
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 12:45pm
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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? |
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Posted By: EmDee
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 1:27pm
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Ooh good questions. I still have both of my kiddies placentas in the freezer and my eldest is 3! I've decided to use a native tree, maybe Kowhai, but I really need to talk to mum to find out how/what to do. I'll be watching this thread too. ------------- DS 8 DD 6 DS 4 DD 2 |
Posted By: Aquarius
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 2:04pm
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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.  ------------- http://www.magicalkingdoms.com/timers/"> 
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 2:53pm
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We planted a nz native tree with DS1 one at the inlaws as they were on a huge life style block.
DS2 aged 4 & half & DS3 aged 3 are in the freezer (placentas that is, lol) we are going to plant them at the inlaws new place, but will do a family tree for all the boys. |
Posted By: sottise
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 3:03pm
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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... ------------- 
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 4:12pm
| MY SIL planted dwarf mandarin trees over her 2 boys ones - in pots, so they could be moved. Apparantly citrus trees go very well over the top. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 4:20pm
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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. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 4:36pm
Jess wanted to take ours home but I just knew that it would be one of those things that seems like a great idea at the time but ends up sitting in the freezer for years to come lol. When I asked him what he wanted to do with it when his response was "make Pate?" Needless to say we didn't keep it in the end  -------------  
TTC #3 since Jan 2010 - PCOS MC April 2010 |
Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 5:31pm
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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! 
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 5:40pm
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I didnt with bailey as I never thought of it at the time
I was wanting to with Aidan but since he was so prem they had to send it away for an autopsy I dont think I will this time to be constant |
Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 7:24pm
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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 -------------  
 
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Posted By: Mamama
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 8:07pm
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Thanks all, it's interesting stuff! I'm not surprised many of us still have them in storage, I think its the desire to get it perfect, we keep putting it off.... Lets hope there's not a major power cut!!
I think we'll look into a citrus tree or Isabel's birth flower if its compatible with potting.... I like the idea of a native tree too but I don't think we have the space. Yes I've heard of mothers taking a bite of their placentas, hmmmmm, or cooking them up. When I did a google search yesterday I found recipe's for placenta cocktails and lasagne etc. It's not my style but each to their own! What about placenta prints......?! Where would you hang it?! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 8:35pm
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  )-------------  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: Maya
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 8:36pm
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Oh and not keeping them was never an option for us, with Willie being Maori we had to keep them - they believe that the placenta must be returned to the earth. ------------- 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: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 9:28pm
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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. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
A = 01.02.04 & C = 16.01.09 & G = 30.03.12 |
Posted By: QHX
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 9:34pm
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We are going to bury ours in in the bed of the waihopai river (on the property) so when it floods our daughters first life force will be washed through the valley and out to the ocean so she will always be a part of the district she was born in. It was my husbands idea. I was amazed he had thought about it so much too. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 9:43pm
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Wow, that's awesome QHX, I love it! ------------- 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: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 01 August 2009 at 10:02pm
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I should have being maori and DP being samoan but didn't ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: monster
Date Posted: 02 August 2009 at 4:06pm
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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. -------------   
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Posted By: Aithne
Date Posted: 02 August 2009 at 5:18pm
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My mum convinced me to keep mine. but not to bury it. She thinks i should be able to keep it preserved just incase Rory needs anything from it. Its just the same as cord blood banks except im not paying heaps of $$$ for someone to keep monitoring the temp.
Has anyone else done this?? Im not sure if it would work the same but mum thinks it would. |
Posted By: jano1
Date Posted: 02 August 2009 at 5:19pm
| If planting in a pot choose the type of plant carefully as many species won't cope with the high nutrient load. My sister pplanted a dwarf pohutakawa on my niece's placenta and it died. I'd check with the plant store before buying. |
Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 02 August 2009 at 8:06pm
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I've got my angel baby and placenta buried with a stunning little Japanese weeping-style maple planted on top - around the time I lost her it's a gorgeous shade of red, then over summer it goes green. The tree is doing really well. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 02 August 2009 at 8:52pm
| I buried Capreces on her first birthday under some kinda native bush (so can't remember it lol) I planted it next to the river down the back of my parents house so if they ever moved I could still get to it. I'm really gutted I didn't keep Jacks. |
Posted By: Mamama
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 9:58am
I'm not sure, it would be worth investigating! The concern I have lurking in the back of my mind is that food in residential freezers go off after some time, so will that happen to our placentas? I don't think it matters much if you're going to plant the placenta as you want it to decompose anyway.... If it's going to be used for blood cells or what have you, would they still be able to use them if it had turned? I have absolutely no idea!! Better to have it and have a shot, but gees, hopefully you'll never have to find out. |
Aithne wrote:Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 11:15am
| Long-term storage of blood cells needs to be done at much lower temperatures than residential freezers get - at work we use a -20 deg and a -70. |
Posted By: Flutterby
Date Posted: 03 August 2009 at 12:48pm
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Codys is under a Magnolia Tree that I gave DP for his 30th. I didn't even think about if the tree will do ok with all the extra nutrients. . Though it seems to be doing alright at the moment. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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