9 Things to do With Your Placenta After Birth
I’ve always been very drawn to the beauty that placentas hold. I worked in labor and delivery for five years before starting my journey to become a birth worker and have worked with and seen a lot of placentas. It wasn’t until my training to be a placenta encapsulation specialist, that I really dove in and learned about the incredible power that placentas have.
The placenta is a temporary organ that your body grows for the sole purpose of growing and sustaining a life, aka your baby. Your body literally makes a temporary organ, wow.
It has become a normal practice to dispose of the placenta after birth and if that’s what you’d like to do with yours, more power to ya! But if you’d like to know of some other options, here ya go.
Encapsulate. Hire a local Placenta Encapsulation Specialist to encapsulate your placenta. If you’re near South Bend, IN, I’d love too! Click here to hire me.
Create keepsakes: Umbilical cords, prints, pictures, etc.
Take home to bury in your yard and plant a tree over it. This is a beautiful way to give back to the earth and create a sacred space in your yard. In some cultures, this is a beautiful and common practice for many different reasons.
Make a tincture.
Make a healing salve.
Lotus birth. A lotus birth is a practice that once you birth the baby and the placenta, you leave them attached until the cord naturally falls off.
Freeze it until you decide what you’d like to do with it.
Whatever you’d like to do with it, I’m here to support you in any way that I can.
