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

[SlartyBartFast]

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

We made a chocolate cake, it just tasted like normal cake. I crumbled cadbury's flake on the top.

God, I baulked when I read that at lunchtime yesterday

Even my most dedicated hippy-est of friends were unconvinced.

What a load of bollocks.

I think people forget that until around 50-100 years ago it was normal to die in childbirth - mother or child.

Over indulged middle class shite.

Oh, can I just say though, that I quite liked to look at mine (briefly) and I really have no issue with people eating them, so long as I don't have to.

Cut it off your poor flipping baby though fgs.

your first days of life cuddled up next to a piece of rotting flesh. They already admit only mad bint parents are prepared to come within a 100 yards. Bordering on abuse I think.

Slow cooker.

Bit of red wine, some carrots and onions.

Was tasty.

I have just read the article and at risk of offending people 'what a load of shite' came to mind.

I have no idea what happened to them and I couldn't care less!

I donated cord blood so guessing it was incinerated after being emptied!

Bleugh! At people eating it! Thena gain i don't eat and organs animal or human.

Mine was taken away to be incinerated with ds1 and d2's was taken for medical science along with his cord as it was unusual. (He's in a medical book don't you know!)

I remeber seeing it after ds1 was born on the little table on wheels and i said to dp, 'don't look behind you' (hes squeamish) so the first thing he does is look behind him strieght at the placenta in a metal bowl and he went very white.

I didn't really make a hocolate cake with mine btw it was an off the cuff comment athat nobody has reffered to and I don't want you all thinking that it may have been true!

Ledodgy i think you're trying to cover your tracks. Clearly a chocolate cake was made and I suspect the other ingredients were gathered a la baldrick making coffee in blackadder goes forth!

this is just more poncy middle class guff to get competitive about.her grasp of human biology is woeful

"The placenta and the child came from the same cell," she says. Doh no they didnt dumbass

I don't know what happened to mine, but I was teaching right before ds1 was born and one of my students offer to buy my placenta so she could fry it up.

I considered eating mine but it looked unappetising
Took photos instead

put them on your profile The Blonde,

That is the oddest thing I have ever read....

I will not be eating mine. Or planting it. What happens if I move house? would you point out to the new owners that the tree was growing on a rotting piece of you.....

Very strange. Seems another way of making women feel they should bond instantly in a mother earth type way. I have heard benefits to leaving it attached for a while after birth but possibly 2 weeks? yuck!

I took mine home and kept it in the freezer until I had decided what to do with it. A good friend had had her daughter three weeks after I had DS and she did the same thing. All six of us went out when the babies were a few weeks old and buried the placentas together in a grove of oak trees. They may have been dug up and eaten by foxes but hey, so what?

mine was ripped out of me bit by bit. couldn't give a flying fuck what they did with it, all i know is it was fecking agony getting it out.

mad lentil weavers....

I asked to see mine both times.
After DD1s birth I recall a bizarre conversation, as I was being stitched up, where DP and the midwife discussed putting it in a flowerpot and growing something on top of it.
As far as I remember DP was trying to make a present of it to the midwife. He must have been a bit high, to her credit she was very polite and nice about it!

I dried it out and we have it mounted on a piece of driftwood in our dining room. You can dry gourds out the same way.

Mine's cut in half in a tank of formaldahyde on the mantle piece.