[abigailsilva]

Have seen some pretty interesting things online lately.....

With DD, we planted it under a rosebush, yellow climbing, I think it fits well. With this one, I think we'll do a fruit tree. I've heard of women dehydrating,grinding, and putting it to pill form for the weeks after......interesting, don't know if I'm quite that crunchy............

So what do you guys do with yours, anything?

[**Jenn**]

I didn't do anything with mine. I don't even remember seeing it. I delivered it within minutes of delivering my son and then I was being stitched up for a little while from tearing a bit. I was so preoccupied with my baby I didn't even give the placenta a second thought. Maybe if I wasn't in a hospital I would have given it a little more consideration, but probably not, it doesn't really interest me.

[MrsPil]

I'm planning on either encapsulating mine or making some placenta tonic. Or perhaps I'll do both and bury the leftovers. I'm not certain at this point, I'm kind of waiting until after the birth to see how I feel about it. I may use a small piece of it to help control PPH if it becomes a problem.

[Mama-honey]

I half considered doing something with mine this time, but never followed up. I felt so much better once it was out, though! I liked seeing it briefly. We have pics, too. It's amazing how big they are! I think encapsulating it would have been the only thing I would do with it, especially since we rent our house-- I wouldn't want to plant it here.

[momma6_2angels]

Ours went out with the trash. I always look at them though!! They are pretty neat things!

[wonderfullymade]

We looked at and played with ours, but our hospital does not allow removal of personal organs (from what I understand, it is MI law - stupid though it is). I WANTED to dry it and use it for pp bleeding.

[Lash]

removal of personal organs.. what kind of funny law is that! nope i'm sorry ma'am thats YOUR placenta, but we'll need to keep it thanks. i get the concept, its just funny they get to keep YOUR organs!!

[ShawnaCAN]

With our hospital births, nothing. Never even saw the placentas.

With our home birth disposal was up to us! And since you aren't allowed to put "human body parts" in the trash, we just buried it in the garden.

[*:Onei*Chan:*]

I cant plant anything here at the apartment... pooey! If I have a uc, then I will most likely take it back to my hometown and put it in the ground where I grew up, or perhaps I will consider drying and capsulating it. I would have no problem taking the pills, but I would rather not do the preperation myself. I am kinda crunchy, but not quite crunchy enough for PLasagna! LOL!

[Lash]

Plasagna.... mmm not in my cookbook here? wonder why? oh, probably the whole not being allowed to carry your own organs anywhere... man if you can carry your organs around INSIDE your body, why can't you carry then around outside your body?

I dont think i'd honestly have the strength or time after birth to make the pills or other remedies... I"m probably wrong, I just know i'd want to gaze at my child for hours or days, and then possibly try to sleep...so burial is probably what we will do a well.. wow that sounds so sad, does it get a tombstone?

[LaLa]

My MW offered to make homeopathics from mine. I havent taken her up on it lol. So far mines in the freezer, until Im up and about more & have the time & energy to plant it under a tree (and i have to decide what kind of tree lol).

So - ours will grow a tree of some sort

Lala...

[Lash]

LaLa thats much better than burial!!

So you went with Azlin? whats the MN?

[samu2]

It went in the bin after I had a good look at them.

[UndaCovaSis]

It went into the freezer. I was supposed to plant it. Two months after the birth though we moved and my brother in law moved into our old place. I think the placenta is still in the freezer unless he threw it out. lol I would feel sad if he just tossed it ...although there isn't much I can do with it now that I'm on the otherside of the country.

[LuvEmm]

I hope your brother in law wasn't tramatized by a placenta in his freezer. Not saying it is bad that you had it there, but then again, it was yours. KWIM?

[abigailsilva]

yeah, mine was in the freezer for two years while we waited for a permanent place to bury it, all the fam members were renting at the time. When my mom met my stepdad and bought a house we finally planted it.


Hubby said he'd encapsulate mine for me! He's never seen one, so we'll see how many sshades of green he'll turn when the time comes.!

[Dev]

Out of curiosity...how do you encapsulate it?

I am giving birth in a hospital unfortunately, due to complications with this pregnancy we are erroring on the side of caution. I hadn't thought to ask about taking my placenta home with me! My mother had me in a hospital but my sister was a home birth. They burried her placenta under a tree and if I remember correctly that tree was one healthy tree!!!

PLasagna had me ROFL.

[MrsPil]

C&Ps from another homebirth board:

I took it a couple of times with my fist, but didn't need it with my second. I felt my mood lift within about 30 minutes. Heres the recipe I found and used to prepare it for capsules.



Placenta Preparation


"Cut off the cord and membranes. Steam the placenta, adding lemon grass, pepper and ginger to the steaming water. The placenta is "done" when no blood comes out when you pierce it with a fork. Cut the placenta into thin slices (like making jerky) and bake in a low-heat oven (200-250 degrees F), until it is dry and crumbly (several hours). Crush the placenta into a powder - using a food processor, blender, mortar and pestle, or by putting it in a bag and grinding it with rocks. Put the powder into empty gel caps (available at drug and health food stores) or just add a spoonful to your cereal, blender drink, etc. The recommended doses vary, some suggest up to 4 capsules a day, others just one. Perhaps the best advice is to take what makes you feel good".
(Susan James)[/b]

and

So I thought I would post this fab little story. So funny, so wonderful.

My Dh was Placenta Man, in charge of the preperation n'all that jazz. The day after Noah was born was "P" day. Dh sliced up some ginger, lemon and chili's, cleaned the placenta and placed it all in the steamer. It was funny to watch, as open and supportive as he is....trying not to dry heave!! Conditioning is a wacky thing.

The kids, who were watching the whole procedure, started drooling! lolol, they thought it smelled divine!!! (notice, no previos conditioning) When the placenta was done and DH was slicing and placing pieces on the dehydrator trays the children gathered like hungry lions. They said it smelled like the best steak ever. They would have eaten it all if we had let them..(DH still trying not to dry heave)

Dehydrator goes on the deck and 5 hours later its done. Willow helps dadda powderize and encapsulate it. 100 caps. Dh's appetite comes back and he is beaming having completed the "husband of the year" task without loosing his lunch

I have been taking 2 caps, 3x's a day and wow, the feeling is amazing!! I notice anytime I get that wacky hormonal vision blurring thing I take 2 caps and feel my body regain balance. My body has healed so fast, even my muscles are coming back to life. I have never felt so positive and present after birth. I highly recommend going for placenta consumption!![/b]

You should be able to buy capsuls just about anywhere, and I've read you can use either a pastry bag to fill them or rent an encapsulating machine. I'll probably try the former.

[agatha]

Never say our with DD and don't plan on doing anthing with this one