Unique parenting question: what do you do with your child's placenta?

Never encountered this issue with my three sons

http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/newsfeatures/article/725751--porter-so-what-should-i-do-with-my-son-s-placenta

Around the world, there are rituals honouring the placenta. The Ibo of Nigeria bury it as the dead twin of the child.

Other people eat them. They are said to help a woman heal after labour – both physically and emotionally. California midwife and medical anthropologist Janneli Miller offers to powderize her client's placentas, so they can swallow them in capsule form with white wine. More palatable than drinking it as a bloody Mary – tomato juice, salt, placenta, squeeze of lemon and voila, you have a cure to too much bleeding after childbirth

 

Best idea I've heard is to bury it and plant a tree on top.

 

We planted roses over it. It's supposed to be very good for the soil.

 

I read this in the Star and initially didn't know what to think.....but, completely involuntarily, I flashed back to Samantha Eggar in "The Brood." Totally fucking ewwwwww.

 

Something to do with fava beans and a nice Chianti sounds about right.

 

Have the medical staff properly dispose of it.

 

I'm with TBF. I also think the hospital may give you an option to donate it for research purposes.

 

We had someone powderize the placenta.....and then we snorted it.

 

Name it the Bears starting QB. [/AQB]

 

Complain that the local newspaper's sports department isn't giving it the respect it deserves.