to wish that my friend had not included a close up photo of her placenta

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in a kidney shaped bowl, along with the pics of her gorgeous new baby? I kept visualising it during supper.

Peckarolloveragain Will you be photographing your bulging vagina just before the birth (there would not be a baby without one) to enclose along with a shot of the placenta and a picture or two of your gorgeous baby when he/she arrives?

Quite possibly yes swedes I will.

Want a copy? Leave your email address here and I will make sure your included.

Maybe I could include a picture of my husbands willy? Just so you get the full picture?

Peck - do you mind if I pass? I would love to see a picture of your new baby though!

Snaf, explain..??

Swedes, bulging vagina - oooh that sounds weird but cool. I know you're being flippant but I'd love to see a live birth..

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Snaf - Might you do Mumsnet pictorial placenta analysis - a bit like horoscopes.

'Oh yes, this placenta belongs to an uptight mother who needs to relax more. She needs more spinach and to go easy on the cheese. Your sex life could be lacking in the next few weeks but it will pick up before the second new moon. Lucky number 7. Lucky biscuit garibaldi.'

People used to eat them as it was the way to build up strength lost and basically stop mother from dying, not sure why you would do it now, cup of tea and piece of toast much nicer but each to their own

The student midwife told my DP that my placenta was 'the mankiest she'd ever seen', while I was being stitched up after my CS. Felt a bit put out by that

Ohlittletown - You should have said - 'That will be the gin' . I wouldn't know a manky placenta from a prime example. Thank goodness.

Swedes - I might just, when this midwifery lark goes tits-up...

The strangest one I've seen so far looked and felt exactly like strawberry jam - I have no idea how it sustained a baby for nine months.

It wouldn't bother me (I looked at my dd's placenta and was vaguely amazed that it was greyish) but then I'm not particualary squeamish anymore. I'd probably crop the pic before I put it out on display though.

My dp would probably faint or puke if he saw it though - he can't stand the sight of any bodily fluids .

Ooh I loved seeing my placenta! It was HUGE! And, like, a real organ or something. I really wasn't expecting that. Although the doctor did keep banging on about how I should be more interested in it when I was wanting to focus more on my new baby...

Also I didn't photograph it, and if I had I wouldn't have shown anyone.

I think their might be something in placental analysis. A quick trip to the labour ward and a once over of the placenta - you could flip-flop it over for effect. You could even take a small sample and put it in a test tube, whilst wearing white rubber gloves. You could then send the new mother a nutritional and physiological report. You could even do it by post.

My cousin had hers weighed after birth - apparently that's the custom in France.

She told me the weights but I've forgotten now.

at strawberry jam!!

PMSL at the placenta horoscope !!

beewisemen.. sorry you have a list of things about your DDs birth you are sad about, if you want to discuss it, you should, it can be really helpful

google birth trauma association or sheila kitzingers birth crisis line

or look on here at the thread in childbirth entitled @@ Birth trauma @@

their I mean there.

oh norki shpuldnt have clicked that link!no wonder i still cant say the word placenta to my dh he must have been traumatissed

That picture looks like raw steak to me .

hehe Amy

That's the pretty side though! THe other side is, er, an acquired taste. I remember my mw thrusting it under my nose, pulling the membranes about and and saying excitedly 'and look here's the hole he came out of!'

i was never shown mine or told anything about it something im now very glad off

lightly sauteed placenta on bruschetta, anyone?

LOL.

I think MWs weigh the placenta here, too - or maybe it was a research project or something.

I had mentioned (in a moment of earth motherliness and curiosity) to my MWs that i would be quite interested to see the placenta.

So after 28 hours labour, 3.5 hours pushing, a ventouse delivery that made it look as if teh obstretricain was involved in a fight for her life, the helpful MW shoves this wobbly thing under my nose saying "do you wnat to spend time looking at your placenta"? and I was shouting 'for fucks sake take it away!"

I never saw mine
DH did, he is still traumatised by it, he said it looked hairy / veiny is that possible?