What did you do with your placenta???

Question

plant it, eat it, dry it out??? and why??

Thanks xx

Answer 1

Made a facial mask to make me look younger and it worked!

Answer 2

i didn't do anything with mines.  but my brothers girlfriend is mexican so in her tradition or whatever she had to burry hers or something like that!

Answer 3

I don't know!!The doctor probably ate it or something.

Answer 4

the doc kept both of mine,... or threw it away who knows after it leaves the room

Answer 5

i cut a small chunk off of it and put it in between my cheek and teeth because i was bleeding really bad still and it made my bleeding stop really fast then i spit it out with the rest of it i planted a tree that we bought the next day my baby was the same size as the tree so we could watch them both grow my daughter is now almost 4 and is responsible to water her tree so it doesn't lose its lifeline it has taught her responsibility as well as the life and death concept  

Answer 6

Erm, the doctor took it away.  That's perfectly fine for me.  Teehee.

Answer 7

donated it

Answer 8

the dr looks at it and make sure it's complete, then they throw it into medical waste.  why?  i have no use for it  anymore.  

Answer 9

I was trying to think of how to explain what happens in Maori culture and decided my brain doesn't work and found this on the net to explain.

"In many places, the placenta represents the child’s relationship to family, tribe, and land. The Maori of New Zealand call the placenta whenua, which also means land. For the Maori, te whenua (the land) nourishes the people, as does the whenua (placenta) of the woman. The Maori traditionally bury the baby’s whenua and pito (umbilical cord) on the marae, or tribal land. Returning the placenta/whenua to papatuanuku (Mother Earth) after birth establishes a personal, spiritual, symbolic and sacred link between the land and the child."

Answer 10

I have heard of people doing all kinds of strange things with their placentas. I didn't want anything to do with mine. The last two times or this time either. Too yukky for me. I know it was my baby's lifeline for 9 months but doesn't make me feel in the least compelled to handle it for any reason.  

Answer 11

I never saw nor wanted to see it.  The Dr. always checks it after delivery to make sure that it is intact and all there. BTW, are you a freak or just "curious"?

Answer 12

never heard of any of this...sounds gross. The doc can have mine lol

Answer 13

what the ****?

Answer 14

WTF? Eww, i didnt believe that someone would do any of that, but i looked it up and people actually do that. Ughhhh, I think im going to be sick, really really sick!

Answer 15

I plan to defrost it and plant it under a new tree that is as old as my son for his birthday.  That way, as he grows so will the tree that is nourished by the placenta that nourished him.  

Answer 16

nothing with my first child but i didn't know that i could donate it... i knew i didn't want to bring it home. I want to donate it with my next child.  

Answer 17

my dr threw mine away medical waste I guess

Answer 18

The hospital kept it. But I heard that if you tell them you wanna donate it, they will

There's something in it that helps kids with cancer or something like that. Not so sure.

Answer 19

Why don't you ask your doctor if there is any medical use for it and if there is you can donate it for medical research.

I've heard that some women plant it.

Answer 20

Are you serious?!? Mine got left in the delivery room- or whatever they do with it. The only thing I was worried about hanging on to was my baby.  

Answer 21

I didn't think to do anything with it, but we sent the umbilical cord blood off to a cord blood bank.  

Answer 22

i fed it to your mom.

thanks for asking :]

Answer 23

EEEEEEEEEEW i let the doctor have mine lol

Answer 24

I planted them under rose bushes. It nourished my baby for 9 months now it nourishes the land.  And no I'm not weird.

Answer 25

I didn't do anything with it.  I seen it then they took it away.  Just didn't think to do anything with it then i started researching online how you can take it and plant it and wish I would have done that but of course some just find it gross.  I would have even been willing to donate it for research but didn't know about that option either.  I assume it was burned with medical waste.