Birth Art/Placenta Prints

[Pinkbruise]

Not sure if this is where this thread belongs . . .

I would REALLY like to make some prints of the placenta after baby is born and I'm wondering how to go about this?

This is what I have in mind. I very large canvas painted black divided into four corners. In one corner I would like to have a print of the placenta, in another a print of the cord, the baby's hand and foot prints in another corner, and if possible . . . some how a print of the baby's side?

Is there anyway I can actually get a print of the baby? I don't want to pant the baby.... any ideas?

Maybe I'll just do hands and feet in separate corners, and the placenta and cord also in separate corners.

anyone else done placenta prints?

[amandaleigh37]

I'm considering doing this with mine... but not sure yet. Here's a link with photos that I bookmarked a long time ago:

http://community.livejournal.com/nat...2064#t10122064

[koalove]

i have done prints and heres my advice~ have someone do it for you right after the birth. use the blood~ not paint~ and use a hand made type of paper. it absorbs the blood well where as regular paper is coated with something and it just wont work right. get a few sheets so you get at least one good print. good luck!

[Eman'smom]

A friend did ours for us a few days after dd was born. We ended up using regular paper and poster paper. We did the first one in blood and others in tempra paint. They came out pretty nice. For now they are still packed away I haven't quite figured out what I want to do with them yet.

[CrunchyMamaToBe]

We did prints of the placenta. Link to thread with slide show.

Baby handprints are next to impossible to get. I have no idea how hospitals manage them. Their little fists are all curled up for the first month at least. We did several with footprints, but in the end the one that got framed was just of the placenta.

[birthdancedoula]

Come over and check out mine, B. We did them with Iris' placenta soon after she was born. I got huge pieces of watercolor paper from the craft store. They are just printed with residual blood but they are really primal looking. I did some with Lib's and Bashie's placentas, too. Those are cut up in their scrapbooks~ I made collages with them using some of the membranes that I dried.

Seriously, come over. I have birth art on the brain anyway. We'll figure out your project and I can get your opinion on a birth art quilt I'm working on now.