[kungfumoose]

As some of you know, I live on a military base overseas.
I am worried about what to do with the placenta. All of the ideas I have heard, are not possible.

I can't dry it out, because I live on a freakin' tropical island, and it's so humid here that if I leave my clothes in the dryer for 20 minutes after it stops, the humidity from the dryer vent has already made them damp again!!!

I can't freeze it because the power goes out so often that it would go bad within a week. (power was just out this morning!!)

I can't burry it, because we have base regulations on digging, and I share my yard with the rest of the building.

I can't cook it, because I'll be lucky to choke some down if I am hemmoraging!! (it's just too gross for me)

My husband is afraid that if we just throw it away, the animals will tear our trash open. We live right on the edge of a belt of jungle. It surrounds us on 2 sides, and I bet the wild animals would just LOVE it.
I had actually considered throwing it into the jungle, but I think we would get some weird looks from our neighbors if they saw us. We can't go more than a few feet into the jungle because it's so dense, and the last thing we need is a neighbor's dog dragging it out into somebody's yard!!

I guess my last hope is to just stick it in the freezer until trash day (and just hope it doesn't get too gross if the power goes out), and put it out right when the garbage men come.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

~Moose

 

[Ruthla]

I was going to suggest putting it in the freezer, well wrapped in plastic, and putting it out for the trash an hour or so before pickup.

 

[Jane]

It's possible that you can drop it off somewhere that has biohazard pick-up, like a dentist or medical office. I don't know how "under the radar" you are, so that may not work.

I would just do what we do with fish innards. Salmon can be fatal for certain unlucky dogs, so I take steps to keep them out of my garbage. I freeze it double bagged and tied, and put it in the garbage hours before pickup. I suspect that a plastic ice cream container or 5 gallon bucket would be air-tight as well.

One more thought- you can dehydrate it in the oven. You wash it off in the sink and slice it very thin with a sharp knife and lay it out in the oven for a few hours/days at very low temp. Dehydrated, it would be easier to crush and sprinkle over the land. Or eat, if you chose.

 

[Kellym]

Are you on Guam by chance??

I was also going to suggest dehydrating it in the oven.

 

[shell024]

I'm on Guam

hehe I plan on dehydrating the placenta in the oven or a dehydrator and immediately encapsulate it. It is very humid here and we get the dryer problem too.

: Hmm...maybe the freezing till trash day would be a good idea too though.

 

[Kellym]

DH and I were on Guam the summer after we got married (it was the summer of 96). DH had lived there for a year wtih an uncle and we went back to help build the airport terminal that was under construction. It has GOT To be one of my favorite places in the world. I would love to go back someday.

 

[arlecchina]

I believe if you wanted to leave it in a container covered in salt with a few grains of rice for clumping, it would dry and preserve.

 

[BirthkeepinSister]

Mine thawed out for 2 days when we moved out of state and drove over 2000miles. I had it in a cooler with ice and it didn't stink. I wanted to 'plant' it somewhere special, so that's why I took it with us!

 

[cathicog]

before freezing you could wrap it in several layer of newspaper. Newspaper ink has antibiotic properties, of sorts.(they used to make Placenta bowls out of rolled up papers.) I would wrap it that way, then put in plastic bag, then into the freezer, for garbage pickup day. No one will know what it is. I like the pp idea of thinly slicing and dehydrating in the oven. that could ultimately be disposed of in the jungle I suppose, but then you wouldnt' want the wild ones coming back for more, eh?

 

[AllisonK]

Why not plant it in a large pot w/ a tree or something.

 

[momsmyjob]

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllisonK Why not plant it in a large pot w/ a tree or something.

yeah that..

mine is still in my freezer..my last one I buried in our yard.

 

[nznats]

Quote:

Originally Posted by AllisonK Why not plant it in a large pot w/ a tree or something.

Thats what we are doing because we are renting and dont want to leave it behind

 

[oregongirlie]

You could freeze it until you're up for giving it a "burial at sea". I have no idea if this is realistic, just an idea.

 

[kungfumoose]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kellym Are you on Guam by chance??

Nope, Okinawa Japan

and I LOVE it here!!!

Thanks for all the suggestions,

I guess I'll have to discuss it with DH.

~Moose