did you keep the placenta
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Topic: did you keep the placenta
Posted By: peanut butter
Subject: did you keep the placenta
Date 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 By: Brenna
Date 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) -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 6:57pm
| 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. |
Posted By: megrac
Date 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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MelanieAndBree
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:27pm
I dont think ill be keeping mine  ------------- Melanie. Mum to Briahna Robyn, 3yrs |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:31pm
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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. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:34pm
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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 By: Kels
Date 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 . ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:38pm
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You just crack me up girl!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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pepsi wrote:Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:39pm
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The idea of taking that home just makes me feel ill. Hehe I'm the queasy type LOL ------------- |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:42pm
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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 By: emz
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 7:55pm
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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 By: kell
Date 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. ------------- Kayla Rose is now 4! James Sydney is nearly 2! |
Posted By: shaz
Date 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. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:06pm
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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 ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: kell
Date 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  ------------- Kayla Rose is now 4! James Sydney is nearly 2! |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:35pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:38pm
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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 By: Guests
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 8:45pm
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I wish I had
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Posted By: kabe
Date 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. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 9:09pm
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We kept ours, Willie buried Maya's one in the back yard at the place we were renting which made me furious as I wanted it taken back to their turangawaewae at Reweti, the gremlins one is still in the freezer but it is definitely going to Reweti. ------------- 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: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 10:09pm
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We never kept Andrew's as the thought just made me , but now I really wish we did. His was burnt with the hospital waste (I asked what they did with them). I have Josh's in the freezer and will bury it with a tree in Feb next year. If I was able to get it to Kaikoura then I would bury it at the Marae there (being our family Marae) but I can't so we will keep it at the house. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 10:10pm
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I did have a good look at both of them. My MW explained all the bits to me. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 13 June 2007 at 10:43pm
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I never kept the placenta but kept the umbilical cord thingy that fell off after the first week or so & buried that ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 8:14am
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My mum has kept both of my boys. I didn't want to keep them but i'm glad that she has. She wants to take them back to the Islands and plant coconut trees over them on some family land. That's what my nana did with mine. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 8:27am
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I haven't kept them from my children... I thought about it with Kiya, but decided it wasn't something that interested me enough to actually do properly (and I personally don't see the point of keeping it just because I could) ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 9:16am
I would have love to keep it and plant it somewhere but we knew we were moving countries and wouldnt be able to take it with us. So for that reason I am also not keeping the next one as I never ever want my little girl to think she wasnt also special. (Yip I know I am weird.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 9:59am
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Definately not for me. I think its personal choice. Good on you to those who do. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 12:45pm
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Sorry, I think it's icky. But it does interest me the difference between having it stored at some great expense or keeping it in the freezer at home (for the stem cell thing if our children get seriously ill later in life) Does anyone know about the different options?
What do you have to do with them if you keep them at home in the freezer? ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 1:05pm
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I feel like I should have the 'cultural pull' to keep the placenta as I am part maori, but I don't! I know too many people who still have them in the freezer after many years, which doesn't seem too spiritual to me! Nope definately not keeping the placenta. ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 3:01pm
| This is a great thread -- none of my mates back in the US would even consider keeping theirs. I don't think it's even an option there unless you sign forms and get all sorts of permission. I told my midwife right from the start that I didn't even want to see my placenta after the birth, let alone keep it. But of course, she HAD to ask again when she was inspecting it to make sure it was all there, and at the same time that I said "Hell, no!" DH said, "Well, actually..." So now it's in our freezer. And yes, it does gross me out, but DH really wants to plant a tree over it somewhere, someday. The funniest/grossest part of the whole thing is that the container it's in sort of looks like an ice cream container, so a few times we've had to warn guests who were foraging for ice cream NOT to look in the white container on the top shelf! |
Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 3:17pm
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Ive jsut been talking to a friend in Melbourne about this while I was reading through this thread.
They dont give the option to keep over there, well they didnt at her hospital. I wasnt keen on keeping it, the look of it actually didnt make me feel to good. So dont think I'll be keeping James's either once ehs born ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 3:23pm
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We will be donating ours to the research team at Liggins too. As neither of us have any particular strong cultural views on it, we feel it should still be put to a good use and hopefully the research will benefit someone else having a baby in the future. Its also the same reason that we became involved with the Scope study. I think it is a beautiful thing to have some strong cultural beliefs though - and it must be lovely to be able to take it "home" to family land or a marae, giving your children a connection to a place forever.
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