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

[JR]

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

 

[Bubbler]

 

[ArnoldBabar]

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

 

[playthrough]

Flatten it out and use it as a frisbee

 

[da man]

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.

 

[Double J]

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 ****ing ewwwwww.

 

[deskslave]

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

 

[User 1019]

Have the medical staff properly dispose of it.

 

[bagelchick]

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

 

[Ashy Larry]

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

 

[Gutter]

Name it the Bears starting QB. [/AQB]

 

[Mystery Meat II]

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

 

[txsportsscribe]

the placenta tries hard

 

[Starman]

Wait until the JV placenta parents start calling

 

[hondo]

Name it the Bears starting QB. [/AQB]

That's freaking funny.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Don't forget. No coverage in the paper is depriving the placenta of a college scholarship.

 

[Chef]

Let it fall to the floor.

 

[hondo]

Red bag in the corner of the delivery room. It's marked medical waste. And I hope someone else puts it there.

 

[amraeder]

Turn it into a teddy bear?
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/dpgo_placenta_teddy_bear_lwf_200911101257909037045

 

[RickStain]

Red bag in the corner of the delivery room. It's marked medical waste. And I hope someone else puts it there.

This.