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Labor Pains: The Scariest Things To Do With Your Placenta After Childbirth

I never paid much attention to my placenta. I mean, I’m sure it came out. I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention. Little did I know, the placenta can be a big deal. That’s right, afterbirth is suddenly trendy. So here’s a few ideas of what to do with “the only disposable organ.” It’s not so disposable anymore.

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1st-Time Mommy

I covered this a little back in March. You forgot some of the creepier things, like drying it and making it into a teddy bear. Check it out. http://8poundpreemie.blogspot.com/2011/03/childbirth-is-beautiful-afterbirth-is.html
Amanda

When my daughters were born, I wanted to take the placentas home and bury them in the yard, planting a tree on top, the way my parents did with my sister’s (planned home birth). However, the hospital wouldn’t let me because they said it was “medical waste.” So instead of giving it back to the earth and allowing it to nourish a tree in their honor like the placenta nourished them while in the womb, it was incinerated like everything else in that place. What a waste!
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