Placenta indifference... - Page 3

[noahs.mom06]

I am planning on encapsulating this one. I also want to know if you can taste it in a smoothie, because I thought about keeping a few small chunks to do smoothies the first week. I don't know how long we'll keep it attached, I don't really care. Mostly I am just looking forward to being able to delay cord clamping (DD's cord actually ruptured where it inserted on her belly, so there wasn't even anything TO clamp!), and having a homebirth. I had pretty bad PPD after DD, which is one of the major reasons I want to encapsulate it this time.

[IdentityCrisisMama]

Funny post, OP!!  

I think I'm pretty indifferent too.  I didn't even see the placenta with my first birth.  I had a transfer, which I did not mentally prepare for at all so I kind of lost control of the whole placenta thing.  I would have liked to have seen it but am sure at that point that I wouldn't have done anything more with it.  

This time we do own our first home and do plan on planing a tree...I wonder how the foxes will like that?  

As far as how long to keep it attached -- we'll probably find some middle ground for that.  I imagine we'll do the whole wait for the cord to pulse thing and maybe hang out with it for a short while but I don't imagine that we'll wait for it to fall off or anything like that.  

[SubliminalDarkness]

I definitely had no interest in the placenta either time, didn't even care to see it, though I did both times. 

[BeanyMama]

After looking at it and marveling a bit, I let the mw whisk it anyway. I've never had a desire to keep one or do anything with it. 

[Mamatoabunch]

It isn't all that important to me. We usually bury it under a tree or in the garden.

[MegBoz]

Emailed the local dog training group. Got a reply:

"Hi Meg - thank you so much for contacting us - I will forward your email along to our HRD (human remains detection) Training Co-ordinator.

I hope all is going well with your pregnancy!"

 

 

:) So at least they didn't think, "EWWW! Gross, no way you freak!" Haha!

[mariacm]

I was pretty indifferent about the placenta.  I jsut wanted baby to get all he could from it, and then I didn't care.  We initially decided we would wait til it stopped pulsing, but that requires checking to see if it is, which means squeezing it to feel, so if it still were, we'd be cutting off supply inadvertently.  The MW suggested waiting til the placenta was delivered, and that sounded like it made a lot of sense, so that's what we did.  The placenta was delivered 12 min after the baby, btw.  DH cut the cord after the placenta was out.  Then we froze it bc the MW said if we put it out in the trash can before trash day, animals could go for it.  We tossed it the next trash day.

[stardogs]

That's awesome MegBoz!

[Marissamom]

I haven't decided what to do with the placenta. I would like to plant a tree, but we rent, so not on option (DF had a placenta tree that his parents planted. the tree died when he moved out. I like that story). we'll cut the cord, I'm thinking about an hour after the birth. I'm kind of grossed out by the idea of eating it, though I'm curious about encapsulation I don't think I'll do it (still kind of grosses me out). though now I want to look into donating to Human Remains Detection training sounds interesting. 

[MegBoz]

Got another reply!

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"Our Team would be most grateful for a donation of your placenta.
Human tissue is used to train our Human Remains Detection K9's that search to find those that are deceased and need to be located in a variety of environments that includes everything from collapsed buildings to wilderness environments.
 
A training aid such as a placenta allows our K9's to train on a variety of age sources from the fresh placenta through months and years of tissue breakdown.
 
I would be glad to send you a request and thank you for the placenta on our Team letterhead.
 
Please let me know if you have and other questions or details that you would like explained. 
You can contact me by email at trustyourdog@ "

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Loved that email address - very cute.

Yeah! what a cool use! & although I've never seen them, they have signs up at a nearby state park where we like to hike that they train the dogs there - so DD will end up hearing about it often. :D

I'm going to tell him I can spread the word if he likes too.

[MidwifeErika]

Meg, that is awesome! I had never considered something like that! I have some clients who want their placentas and plenty of clients who do not care at all and ask me to just take it with me when I leave. I just end up burying them, but donating them to something like that is a really neat idea!

[stardogs]

I'm so glad this is working out for you Meg!  And can I just say I love that others are considering it?! I was a little worried that the suggestion might've been a little too out there. LOL Isn't it awesome that placentas can help save many more lives than just the baby they nourished when donated in this way?!

[thebeljur]

Originally Posted by Marissamom 

I haven't decided what to do with the placenta. I would like to plant a tree, but we rent, so not on option (DF had a placenta tree that his parents planted. the tree died when he moved out. I like that story). we'll cut the cord, I'm thinking about an hour after the birth. I'm kind of grossed out by the idea of eating it, though I'm curious about encapsulation I don't think I'll do it (still kind of grosses me out). though now I want to look into donating to Human Remains Detection training sounds interesting. 

For people who rent and are interested in burying the placenta, I always recommend they bury it under a potted plant.  That's always an option. 

[IdentityCrisisMama]

Way cool, Meg!!  Let them there's another available in April if they want it -- otherwise getting planted for the foxes to did up.  ;-)  

[QueenEsther]

I think that the placenta is a fascinating, disposable organ. However, I don't get into eating it or anything. Cool for those who do, but not cool for me. Our baby's placentas always go straight to the freezer, where we intend to later pull them out and plant them. Right now, we've still our last placenta in the freezer and am due again this June! Looks like we will get to it this spring.