Post by Michele Zipp
Birth is a powerful experience -- beautiful, magical, and amazing. We create life. That is a gift. And we not only birth our babies, we birth the placenta, the life force, supplying nutrients to our babies so they grow. Which is exactly why I feel the placenta is so precious and deserves to be celebrated. We save our baby's first receiving blankets, a favorite onesie or toy -- material things. Why wouldn't we want to save or memorialize our placenta in some way? Some may think eating the placenta is disgusting, but we drink milk that comes from a cow's udder, meat from an animal's insides, eggs that come from a chicken much like a woman births a child, and vegetables that grow in the earth amongst dirt and worms. Why would we be repulsed by something that came from inside us, something that nourished our child? There are many things we can do with our placenta -- here are seven ideas.![]()
Birth is a powerful experience -- beautiful, magical, and amazing. We create life. That is a gift. And we not only birth our babies, we birth the placenta, the life force, supplying nutrients to our babies so they grow. Which is exactly why I feel the placenta is so precious and deserves to be celebrated. We save our baby's first receiving blankets, a favorite onesie or toy -- material things. Why wouldn't we want to save or memorialize our placenta in some way? Some may think eating the placenta is disgusting, but we drink milk that comes from a cow's udder, meat from an animal's insides, eggs that come from a chicken much like a woman births a child, and vegetables that grow in the earth amongst dirt and worms. Why would we be repulsed by something that came from inside us, something that nourished our child? There are many things we can do with our placenta -- here are seven ideas.