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so - what did you do with your baby's placenta?

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SlartyBartFast · 28/11/2008 23:08

anything like http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/28/lotus-birth-umbilical-cord-placenta this?

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SlartyBartFast · 28/11/2008 23:08

try again

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LaDiDaDi · 28/11/2008 23:16

I've got no idea what happened to it and don't really care tbh.

I read the article and then got sidetracked by the photo's on the link below, some were beautiful but at least one woman looked worryingly corpse-like.

Rhubarb · 28/11/2008 23:19

Goes down well with a bottle of fine Chardonney!

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SlartyBartFast · 28/11/2008 23:20

did you read the woman who said her baby got upset if anyone else went near her placenta??

wtf

as if, at ONE week old!

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givethedogabone · 28/11/2008 23:22

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 28/11/2008 23:24

'She says that it is not inconvenient to carry the cord, placenta and baby around together. "We rinsed off the placenta so it was as clean as possible. We sprinkled sea salt over it - it's a chunk of meat quite like liver and has the potential to go off. We had some lavender essential oil to drip on it too in case it got smelly, but it never did. We wrapped it in a terry nappy, then wrapped the baby and the placenta up together in a sleeping bag. Every 12 hours we changed the nappy and added more salt. It worked fine." She and her partner Rae, a psychologist, are keeping the placenta in the freezer until they move house - then they will plant it beneath a tree.'

Christ on a bike

[rolls eyes]

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SlartyBartFast · 28/11/2008 23:27

i know.
go on mn - there must be someone here to ate it, planted it or whatever?

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callmeovercautious · 28/11/2008 23:28

Well I nearly knocked the Midwife out with mine, after that she whipped it away quite quickly before it could manage to escape and attempt ABH on anyone else

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SlartyBartFast · 28/11/2008 23:28

i was wondering when reading that, what animals do?
do they eat the placenta? i think so - they certainly don't wrap their young up with it

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ChirpyGrinch · 28/11/2008 23:33

When I was looking into VBAC I found a lotus birth site, tres bizarre, and the whole 'my baby didn't cry until her cord fell off' thing, really? NO crying for nearly 2 weeks?
Uh-huh

and I think that animals eat it to gain teh nutrients, but don't quote me...

horsemadgal · 28/11/2008 23:37

I gave up reading that when it got to the salt and the nappy

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SlartyBartFast · 29/11/2008 09:56

bump

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TheProvincialLady · 29/11/2008 10:17

SBF it is a well known fact that wild animals sprinkle sea salt and (organic) essential oils on their placentas, then lug them about for a couple of weeks.

Personally I had my placenta deposited straight into a bucket, then medically incinerated. DS wailed the whole time this was happening, in fact he didn't stop for about 3 months Colic be damned, it was the trauma don't you know?

hecate · 29/11/2008 10:21

I have no idea what happened to either of them. tbh, both times, I had just pushed a 10 and a half pound baby out of a very tiny (in comparison ) hole. The whereabouts and eventual fate of the placenta was rather low on my list of priorities.

mrsmaidamess · 29/11/2008 10:21

Hang on, she wrapped the placenta in a terry nappy and treated it like her baby??

I can see Mothercare stocking placenta slings next.

ScottishMummy · 29/11/2008 10:29

LOL i attended pricy and poncy birth class were the guru recommended eating the placenta or planting the placenta in garden

eugh to human Placentophagy.christ you wouldn't eat other surgical detritus would you?

my placenta failed me badly during pg.so frankly hope it met a messy end in a lab or straight sluice

TheProvincialLady · 29/11/2008 10:30

SM I think any ending for a placenta is going to be messy isn't it? They have to be the most revolting things ever.

DoomGloomAndKaboom · 29/11/2008 10:33

We always made pate out of mine, and served it at the Christening. You'd be amazed at how many people were shocked. But then they were probably vegetarians.

ScottishMummy · 29/11/2008 10:33

yes they are!and i have much disdain for mine for failing me so badly

spinspinsugar · 29/11/2008 10:56

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FiveDollarShake · 29/11/2008 11:00

Well hopefully they went in the hospital incinerator where they belong!

DaisyMooSteiner · 29/11/2008 11:03

I buried my last ds's in the garden under a greengage tree (which has yet to bear more than 2 fruit )

I wouldn't have wanted to eat it or have a lotus birth, but I did have a certain amount of awe and respect for this amazing organ which fed and nurtured my baby for 9 months.

PictureThis · 29/11/2008 11:06

Mine went off to the incinerator, thankfully. No placenta pate or tree food in this house

Spidermama · 29/11/2008 11:16

DDs went in a hole in the front garden in Brixton with a corkscrew hazel planted over it. DS1's went in the same front garden but with Fatsia.

DS3 and DS4's went in our back garden in Brixton and have a eucalyptus and a willow growing on them.

Spidermama · 29/11/2008 11:21

DoomGloom are you serious? Did you really make pate with it and what did people say?