Planting trees with placentas - can we make this normal?

[BerllanBrych]

This is my first new thread so bear with. My questions are:

1. Have you heard of this?
2. Have you done it?
3. Would you consider planting a tree with your baby's placenta?
4. If you think this makes sense and should be more widely known about, how can we go about sharing the message? I don't want to push, just raise awareness.
5. For those that wouldn't consider doing it, what are the reasons?

Our story
I'd never heard of this until our midwife casually suggested it mid-labour while I was in the birthing pool. We decided to follow her idea, and took the placenta home to sit in the freezer until we'd recovered from labour etc, and bought a sapling.
DS2 was born at home and by then we were clear that we wanted to do the same. So we had 2 fantastically nourished hazel trees growing alongside 2 kids.
This is a tradition in many parts of the world including some states in America, but it is not a common practice here.
The environmental benefits are a reduction in carbon emissions as placentas are diverted from clinical waste (incineration), and more trees to support biodiversity and store carbon. Plus you can get very clever with it, we know a Rowan who had a Rowan planted. Could go Ash for an Ash..

Would love to hear your thoughts.

@BerllanBrych maybe depends on the sector of society?? I'm from the UK but have been here for a while; it's certainly not unusual in my circle of friends (from NZ and overseas). I'd imagine it may be more common with Māori as that is the local origin of the practice (but I really don't have the knowledge or background to comment on this).

I'd guess some people are - not sure who though. And probably not as commonplace as breasfeeding.

No foxes . The only native mammal is a bat. Other possible scavengers are introduced - possums, rats, stoats, ferrets. Not sure they'd dig in though have never thought about this.

Hello @Heyha I'm sorry that you can't bury your favorite sheep. That sucks.

A placenta is not medical waste. Though many new parents in the UK consider placentasas medical waste by default. So then it's treated as such, a bit of a catch-22.

I don't even look at my lovely children and think fondly of how much a part the placenta played - I'd much less do it with a tree, I think.

My cat is buried in my garden

My placenta came out in bits all over the surgery floor, some of it in a different surgery three months after I gave birth. I guess I could have requested all the scraps and used it for bedding plants, not sure there was any large enough to do a tree justice?