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What shall I do with DDs placenta?

80 replies

tiredpooky · 16/06/2010 15:33

It has been in the freezer for a year now and I am starting to feel too proud of it to plant it and allow it to rot.
I dont suppose I can make it into something? I guess a necklace/bracelet wouldnt work.
Or maybe she would like it when she is 18?
Will it be alright in the freezer next to food for the next 17y?
I am afraid I am being serious - its such a special thing!

OP posts:
rastababi · 16/06/2010 16:49

We planted both our DDs placenta's in the garden with a little tree on top of each one. DD1 was born in the sack, which I dried out and pressed.

As for giving it as an 18th birthday present, I'm afraid I'd draw the line at that idea!

pookamoo · 16/06/2010 16:44

You could make a print of it, and then dispose of it in some way. Google placenta art or prints, I'm sure there will be a "how to" online. I have heard of people doing this before.

(good MN name, by the way!)

Bacofoil · 16/06/2010 16:42

pooky

try woonet

Now if you'll excuse me, the baby has just turded, and I need to dry it out and make a hat. A crap hat.

Dollytwat · 16/06/2010 16:39

are you sure it's still there? You might have defrosted it thinking it was something else and have already eaten it!

minipie · 16/06/2010 16:39

cyteen

PMSL

Now that's going to be in my head for hours

isthatporridgeinyourhair · 16/06/2010 16:39

Tannalise it and make a nice slouchy handbag out of it. What's not to love!

orienteerer · 16/06/2010 16:34

ShockBiscuit

ShirleyKnot · 16/06/2010 16:33

Buy it a little hat and call it Polly.

PuzzleRocks · 16/06/2010 16:28

Hurley

MrsFC · 16/06/2010 16:27

Surely this is a journalist. I mean, honestly.

HurleySatOnMe · 16/06/2010 16:27

Eat it with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

SoupDragon · 16/06/2010 16:22

"Or maybe she would like it when she is 18?"

WTF?? You want to give your daughter an internal organ for her 18th birthday?? Are you mad?

ShadeofViolet · 16/06/2010 16:21

Ke$ha wore a placenta necklace, but she also wears clothes she find on the street.

HTH

LionsAreScary · 16/06/2010 16:20

I sagree with the apple tree idea! Bury deep if you have foxes in your garden though.

I will be getting the midwives to take mine in a yellow incinerator sack. Seems kind of wasteful but I have other (easier to store) things to be sentimental about.

Some friends of ours blended their's with fruit and drank as a smoothie. Apparently the midwife joined them with a glass. Or they were just pulling our leg?!

thisisyesterday · 16/06/2010 16:19

what did you thijnk you'd do with it initially?

I am feally sorry but I honestly do not think your DD will be especialy pleased to be presented with a frozen placenta on her 18th!

plant it... it will fertilise and give life to a new tree... that's quite symbolic isn't it?

Magalyxyz · 16/06/2010 16:12

oh gross! are you Victoria Wood?!

She sauteed hers with some green peppers, garlic and onion.

whoopstheregoesmymerkin · 16/06/2010 16:09

Set it in resin and make a handy doorstop so when you are having a poo you can leave the doorstop open so she can hear you

cyteen · 16/06/2010 16:05

Is anyone else singing this thread title to the tune of 'what shall we do with the drunken sailor?'

mazzystartled · 16/06/2010 16:04

unless your daughter is an exceptional person I am pretty sure she'd rather not EVER see her placenta, especially not as an 18th birthday gift.

plant an apple tree on top of it. make apple pie for her birthday

KurriKurri · 16/06/2010 16:00

Plant it in the garden. It won't keep for 17yrs, she won't want it even if it does. what possible use could you have for it?

Nature's way is that you get rid of afterbirth, (usually by eating) so that other animals won't track you down. It's not supposed to be preserved.

I foresee (mystic Kurri emoticon) a future house full of things you are unable to throw away because they have had some passing contact with your DD. She will not thank you for this.

Veteran · 16/06/2010 15:49

dry it out and make placenta jerky.

booyhoo · 16/06/2010 15:47

do not give your dd a necklace made from her placenta when she turns 18. she will never forgive you. imagine explaining that one to her friends.

LittleWhiteWolf · 16/06/2010 15:47

I actually like the idea of planting a tree or bush or something for your DD with the placenta as fertiliser as I've heard it works well.

I wouldn't keep it in the freezer for 18, just as I wouldnt keep any animal by product in the freezer for 18 years.

I say plant!

Disenchanted3 · 16/06/2010 15:47

Yesm, defrost it before her 18th and plop it ontop of her cake

If you are going to do something then bury it under a plant, its the nicest thing to do,anything else ios just creepy.

colditz · 16/06/2010 15:46

Oh YUK throw it in the bin - in fact, burn it! She has a MUMMY for God's sake, she doesn't need a placenta any more!