[jenneology]

I saw this on another club and it reminded me of the idea I had today.

A friend and I were talking and I was bemoaning that I don't have a garden or yard to bury baby's placenta under a tree, and then I realized that a week after the baby is born, we're driving to my moms house who lives in the house where my dad grew up and my grandparents lived for 50 years. I want to freeze the placenta and then put it in a cooler, drive it down there and plant it while we're there, under my grandmother's magnolia tree. That sounds special and meaningful to me.

 

[lotus.blossom]

Thats really cool!!

I think I will give mine a try, like eat it.

It sounds kinda icky to me and I can't imagine telling anyone I plan on doing it, but I will try it. I didn't even get to see my last one so it'll be really cool to experience it!

 

[CookAMH]

I plan to look at it, that's about it

 

[russianthistle]

First, my mw's will do a placenta print on paper (which I didn't get to do because of transport last time...it looks kind of like a tree of life!), then I will have some placenta smoothie to replenish myself, then I will freeze it so I can later bury it somewhere.

DS's placenta is buried in the yard of the last house we lived in with a twin crystal symbolizing our March angel. I'm sad that we moved from the place that the placenta is buried (we were set to buy the land/space, but life happened), but my fridge/freezer broke down, my landlord happened to be in Spain, and the placenta had to go somewhere.

After two years of being frozen and three days of being thawed, the placenta looked just the way it looked when C was born. It was amazing!

 

[AppleCrisp]

I've never heard of a placenta print! Can you tell more about it?

The last time they thought I was nuts at the hospital when I wanted to see it...I looked at it for about 5 seconds. They are so beautiful. This time after our HB I hope to plant it with a tree in our backyard. I'm glad we're having good weather May babies (at least here in the US) so I can plant it right away.

 

[russianthistle]

Basically what they do is take the placenta and plop it on a piece of paper, and there you have it! a print! and it ends up looking very tree-of-life-like.

I'm thinking they use a heavier gauge paper...perhaps something like watercolor paper.

 

[~Katie~]

I'd like to maybe bury this one, I didn't put enough thought into what to do with DS's placenta. I looked at it briefly but we didn't keep it. Now I wish I had thought about it a bit more.

 

[nukedwifey]

My mother is going to encapsulate mine and I might pop a couple of pieces immediately for the initial benefit since it takes a while to fully dehydrate it and such. I think we're moving to FL so burying it seems less special when we won't be where it will be buried for very long.

 

[Gremlichita]

I did eat it with my DD. It wasn't bad at all. I think when you need it, it appeals to you. I noticed that it was good for about 2 days, then I started to think "yuck!" Funny how it changed like that. It is very rough meat, it's actually hard to cut.

And it's still in our freezer! I keep meaning to buy a tree to plant over it. I am going to have to, we are moving soon.

 

[mamaw/two]

Placenta smoothies for me (I hope that doesn't gross anyone out to much!). I've never done it before, but my sister did with her last and had much easier recovery time and no ppd that time. I have had worse ppd each time, so hoping it will help.

 

[Full Heart]

Eat some of it and bury the rest. Not sure where I will bury it. I imagine it will stay in my freezer for a while till we figure it out.

 

[octanebeetle27]

This post reminds me that my placenta from 7/06 is still in the freezer. So I guess I will be having to think of what to do with two placentas, lol. I love the print idea though--very cool!

 

[Sadie Lake]

I'm definitely going to have mine dried and encapsulated. I think it was a life saver post partum with dd. A girlfriend of mine actually does it as a side business.

I may get up the guts to eat a small part of it right after the birth. If its a tough birth, I'll probably just cloke some down (probably in a smoothie) but if its a relatively easy birth, I'll wait the 36 hours to get my capsules.

Speaking of... those of you who either have done or plan to do smoothies, what all will you put in? A little oj to absorb iron? or just straight placenta?

Sadie

 

[catters]

I can't really imagine eating mine but I DO want to see it and I'd heard of the placenta prints. I never even got to see DS' placenta as I had a c-section and was just so out of it that it never occurred to me to even ask about the placenta. I will VBAC this time so hopefully I'll get to look at it. My husband said it looked cool though! I wish I had a yard at all so I could bury it, but alas. If I had a yard, or if my parent's house wasn't 800 miles away, I'd totally bury it.

 

[the_lissa]

I will probably do the same as last time- eat some and bury the rest at our family cottage.

 

[the_lissa]

I make smoothies with yogurt, milk, strawberries, banana, and whatever fruit I have on hand.

Sadie, if you are planning on ingesting it anyways, you should think about a smoothie since you can't taste or smell it,a nd I've read some of the value is lost from teh drying process.

 

[nigellas]

Nothing. lol

(am I the only one?)

 

[ellee]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nigellas Nothing. lol (am I the only one?)

Nope!

 

[JoyfulJaime]

I thought it's best to wait about a year before planting the placenta? Something about the hormones or something being so strong it'll kill the plant life. Such a foggy brain I have these days.

We plan to freeze this one with the (2) others. The last one dh dehydrated and prepared according to TCM and encapsulated it for me. It was by far my speediest recovery with the least amount of blood. I'm not sure if it was the placenta or herbal remedies I was taking... both practices were a first for me.

 

[the_lissa]

I've read that too, but it wasn't an issue when I planted mine 2w pp.