What did you do with your placenta?

[electric]

Hello! It´s my official due day today with my second child- & I am thinking & feeling my way through the last period of pregnancy! We have planned a homebirth & I am just wondering what others have done with their placenta?
I didn´t even see my placenta at my first birth & this time I am thinking to bury it somewhere special.

[CallMeMommy]

We planted a tree over it. I just noticed buds on the tree yesterday, so that makes me happy (it was in our freezer for over a year, then DH threw the entire thing, plastic bag and all, into the hole and plopped the tree over it, so I was worried the tree wouldn't survive). Not the lovely ceremony I was hoping for, but our fridge died and we didn't have time to fret about it.

[Little Shepherds]

I plan on using it for placenta encapsulation.

[Peony]

I might not be the best one to answer this question. One got lost in a move (really!) and the other one is still in my freezer. I hope to plant a tree once all this snow melts.

[HappyMommy2]

I buried it and planted a bush over it. I think it is a dahlia or some kind of flowering bush like that. Last summer, there was kind of pathetic growth. I think the dog sat on it. I am optimistic for more this year!! We have it kind of protected with some bricks, so crossing my fingers!!

[Juvysen]

I dried mine and encapsulated it. Hoping it wards off PPD.

[*MamaJen*]

I stuck it in my freezer, thinking I would plant a tree over it or something. It's still there two and a half years later. It's really annoying, it gets in the way of the compost bucket. I wish I had let the midwife take it away, since now it's, like, too meaningful to throw away without feeling guilty. I think I may just throw it away anyway.

[jennica]

I will be encapsulating mine.

[rachelsmama]

I blended mine with V8 juice and drank it.

[Childbirth_Fanatic]

Encapsulating mine

[shishkeberry]

I think I'm going with the smoothie after I get to poke it a few times. (I'm a weirdo, I love messing with meat.)

[Nicole730]

few pieces in smoothies and then encapsulated it

[Sharlla]

Cut, froze and used it for smoothies.

[heymama1plus1]

In the freezer still 3 years later... Dh and I can't agree on what to plant above it!

[aloneinid]

Still sitting in the freezer two years later, waiting for an appropriate spot to plant it. I save it for encapsulation, if necessary for PPD, but didn't need it.

[sattygirl99]

Those who did smoothies... How did you do that? I'm torn between encapsulating (expensive) or just consuming it raw via smoothie or something.

I plan to have my MW or doula cut off several chunks and make a protien smoothie after the birth (I've had PPD twice but with 2 hospital births that were depressing and not at all envisioned) but how would I go about consuming the rest of it?

Sorry to hijack!!

[Adamsmama]

Does everyone that has a homebirth keep the placenta?

[Juvysen]

Originally Posted by Adamsmama

Does everyone that has a homebirth keep the placenta?

My midwife took my second one (first homebirth) for a teaching exercise....after asking nicely.

[CallMeMommy]

Originally Posted by Adamsmama

Does everyone that has a homebirth keep the placenta?

I think my midwife says if her clients don't want to keep theirs she asks permission to take it and bury it on her farm.