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anyone keep the placenta?

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 10:14

and what did you do with it?

i was going to post under health, then under hippy philosophy...but i've lunched it and posted it here...

anyone?

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Papillon · 04/10/2004 10:20

me of course!

we buried it in the forest where our CH familie name is registered.

JoolsToo · 04/10/2004 10:20

no thanks - bleurghhhhh!

Papillon · 04/10/2004 10:25

not bleurghhh to me... it was beautiful and very special to do. A treasured memory.

throckenholt · 04/10/2004 10:28

mine from DS1 went to my MIL who was a lab technician at a school - not sure what they did with it !

with my twins we had a good look at it - fascinating - but they wouldn't let us keep it because they send it off for "analysis".

JoolsToo · 04/10/2004 10:51

sophable - lunched it?

SoupDragon · 04/10/2004 11:00

This seems fine if you've had a home birth but what on earth do you take it home from the hospital in? A tupperware box? Tescos bag?

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 11:18

yes jools, lunched it was an unfortunate term.

we took ours home in a pot with a lid. we wanted to bury it under a tree in the garden (as i am a hippy), but it is still in our freezer as we're moving and don't know where we're going to end up (didn't want to leave it behind)...

don't really know what to do with it now, but can't throw it away!

help papillon or anyone else...

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NomDePlume · 04/10/2004 11:20

I'm sorry but it doesn't sound like a nice idea to me. DH had a really good look at it with the midwife when DD was born, he was asking her LOADS of questions about it . Neither of us would've ever wanted to bring it home though, ick.

Why do you ask, sophable ?

NomDePlume · 04/10/2004 11:22

Sorry, posts crossed !

Nimme · 04/10/2004 11:24

What about umbillical cord - anyone frozen it??

Nimme · 04/10/2004 11:25

Sorry Sophable to butt in on your thread I should have said.

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 11:27

butt away, i don't get possessive over threads

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Papillon · 04/10/2004 11:48

We kept dd´s placenta in the freezer.

Rather than burying it on your property is there a special place which has meaning to you where you could bury it. Somewhere that is a sacred place to you.

JoolsToo · 04/10/2004 11:51

I have read about people eating them before - the thought of it makes me want to go vegetarian

Skate · 04/10/2004 11:54

It's supposed to be highly nutritious!!!

Papillon · 04/10/2004 11:58

it is nutritious and some animals eat the placenta because it this very reason - survival of the healthest and fittest! as do scavengers of course.

the placenta for me was the place that my child lived for 9 months and I want to honour it, my dd and the earth by returning it. It feels good knowing where our pregnancy story as such dwells. The earth womb and all that.

zebra · 04/10/2004 12:30

Buried DD's in the garden, didn't think to keep DS1's, didn't think to keep DS2's since I was being carted off to hospital for PPH we had other things on our mind. Was a rented house we moved out of 6 weeks later, anyway.

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 13:37

will think on it paps but good idea...

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MrsCoddyClooney · 04/10/2004 13:40

I am sorry but Iwoudl never do that!
how do you transport it home from the hospital or how do you keep it?
I think this is new age gone mad?

sponge · 04/10/2004 13:44

I'm with you Coddy. I didn't even want to look at it really, let alone keep it around the house. I know it has been your baby's life force but there are all sorts of important internal organs which I wouldn't especially want to keep if they had to be removed.

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 13:45

in a tub with a lid. in the freezer. not really gross at all, saw it when it had just come out, haven't looked at it since tbh.

in some cultures the baby stays attached to the placenta via the cord until the cord drops off...

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 13:46

i am bit of a hippy has to be said...

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fuzzywuzzy · 04/10/2004 13:50

Sophable what the entire placenta the baby stays attached for the entire duration till it drops off.... how does one go about dressing, bathing, feeding the baby with the placenta in tow??? Also errr it must get a tad whiffy near the end no???

NomDePlume · 04/10/2004 13:51

I'm sure that here was a thread about the placenta staying on once....

There was a link to a site deveoted to the practice and a woman was making 'placenta pouches' for the placenta to be kept in whilst still attached. It was really horrid, IMO. The smell from the necrotising placental tissue must have been grim. Ick.

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Heathcliffscathy · 04/10/2004 13:51

yup the whole thing: don't bathe baby until has dropped off (i was advised not to bathe the baby until then anyway, just top and tail)...dont' know about the whiffy bit...

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