Honour the Placenta!
http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/placentas/a/placenta.htm
http://www.networkedblogs.com/mA3f2
http://midwifethinking.com/2010/08/26/the-placenta-essential-resuscitation-equipment/
http://www.networkedblogs.com/mA3f2
http://midwifethinking.com/2010/08/26/the-placenta-essential-resuscitation-equipment/
I look back and laugh at how much my views on all things birth have changed. At our first child's birth, I did not even want to see my baby's placenta! But, after my 2nd and 3rd births I really wanted to see it and even asked my husband to take a photo of our third placenta!
I truly admire this amazing organ and I really wished I had brought them home with me from the birth centre and planted them under one of our fruit trees. It would be interesting to see whether the fruit trees with the placentas under them grew stronger than the ones without. But this I'll never know. I LOVE looking at placenta prints on the internet and love how they can all look so different (just like every baby looks different).
Did your Midwife/Doctor ask if you wanted to see your placenta?
Or, did you ask to see it?
Perhaps you were like I was at my first birth and wasn't interested in it because I thought it was something scary! (I do regret that now).
Yes, I am now quite a lover of placentas and I can't believe that before I was pregnant I never even knew they existed!
(Our 4 year old and 2 year old already know what one is and what it does).
Ode to my Placenta
by Sarah Buckley M.D.
How do I love? Let me count the ways.
First, I love your beauty, so rich and warm and red
Placenta you’re my pillow in my coziest womb-bed
Second, you bring nourishment and liquid from my mom
When she eats well, then I eat well, that’s good because I’m so young
Third, you take away my waste and metabolize the rest
It goes out through Mom’s kidneys, no work, no fuss, no mess
Fourthly, you’re a barrier to keep our bloods apart
For mom and I are separate beings, though connected at the start
Fifthly, you’re my advocate- You tell my mom what to do
Your hourmones keep me growing and that makes mom healthy too
Sixthly, you bring oxygen each time mom takes a breath
I need a lot of clean fresh air because my lungs don’t work yet
Seventh, you’re my thermostat you keep my womb just right
Mom sweats for me in the daytime and warms me up at night
Lastly, you’re my treasure chest of blood for when I’m born
The extra meal that fills me up to birth me in top form
So, please don’t cut my cord too soon and don’t pull on it too
I’ll call for my placenta when I am safely through
And when you see this wondrous thing that grew me up so well Say, "Thank you” to God who made us from one cell.
I truly admire this amazing organ and I really wished I had brought them home with me from the birth centre and planted them under one of our fruit trees. It would be interesting to see whether the fruit trees with the placentas under them grew stronger than the ones without. But this I'll never know. I LOVE looking at placenta prints on the internet and love how they can all look so different (just like every baby looks different).
Did your Midwife/Doctor ask if you wanted to see your placenta?
Or, did you ask to see it?
Perhaps you were like I was at my first birth and wasn't interested in it because I thought it was something scary! (I do regret that now).
Yes, I am now quite a lover of placentas and I can't believe that before I was pregnant I never even knew they existed!
(Our 4 year old and 2 year old already know what one is and what it does).
Ode to my Placenta
by Sarah Buckley M.D.
How do I love? Let me count the ways.
First, I love your beauty, so rich and warm and red
Placenta you’re my pillow in my coziest womb-bed
Second, you bring nourishment and liquid from my mom
When she eats well, then I eat well, that’s good because I’m so young
Third, you take away my waste and metabolize the rest
It goes out through Mom’s kidneys, no work, no fuss, no mess
Fourthly, you’re a barrier to keep our bloods apart
For mom and I are separate beings, though connected at the start
Fifthly, you’re my advocate- You tell my mom what to do
Your hourmones keep me growing and that makes mom healthy too
Sixthly, you bring oxygen each time mom takes a breath
I need a lot of clean fresh air because my lungs don’t work yet
Seventh, you’re my thermostat you keep my womb just right
Mom sweats for me in the daytime and warms me up at night
Lastly, you’re my treasure chest of blood for when I’m born
The extra meal that fills me up to birth me in top form
So, please don’t cut my cord too soon and don’t pull on it too
I’ll call for my placenta when I am safely through
And when you see this wondrous thing that grew me up so well Say, "Thank you” to God who made us from one cell.
