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post #1 of 5
Thread Starter 
Hello,
Anyone done a placenta print? Any tips for how to do this and what supplies are needed?

I was due the 22nd waiting.....
post #2 of 5
We just did ours! Here is what you do:

When you give birth save your placenta in a plastic grocery bag. Make sure your midwife saves as much blood from inside the sac as possible to make prints with.
Buy a pad of watercolor paper. When you are ready to do the prints, put the placenta on the table with the baby's side facing upward.
Then rub a little blood from the bag onto the surface of the placenta. Then take a piece of paper and lay flat onto the placenta and lightly press down on it.
Then peel the paper off of the placenta carefully.

You can't just plop the placenta onto paper, make sure you do it the other way around or it won't come out!

Sometime I'll scan and post mine
post #3 of 5
so cool! wish we woud have done that!

Zmoon - wishing you a peaceful gentle birth!
post #4 of 5
we did one with blood, but it didn't really come out, so we also did several with ink. we just used acid-free stamp pads, same procedure as with the blood.
post #5 of 5
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Wonderful!
Thank you so much for the warm wishes and tech advice :-)
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