A Beautiful Birthing Journey
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                      Honour the Placenta!

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                      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/


                      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.

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