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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 4:21:28 GMT
I took similar pictures (sans the white background) when my daughter had a homebirth. DD & SIL have kept those photos private, as well they should. Not EVERYTHING needs to be shared with the internet world, for cripe's sake.
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ETA: As a woman who also homebirthed and kept the placentas in the freezer until I could use it for planting a special tree/bush, I'm totally on board with the personal photo idea. I just still think people over share on the 'interwebs' and they need to not do that so much.
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 11, 2015 4:32:51 GMT
Without reading comments.. .not my thing... ewwwwwww
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 11, 2015 4:38:05 GMT
I have NO desire to see any placenta; mine or on the internet... EVER.. I have delivered three babies and I still have not seen it and yeah unless someone ties me to a chair and pries my eyes open.. nope not gonna happen.
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Post by scrapsuzy on Apr 11, 2015 4:54:18 GMT
I was expecting something more root-like and thready than the photo here. Do they really look like tree silhouettes in real life? Your post makes me imagine a version of palm or finger prints in every one. The shiny side, the side that faced the baby, is the side that has all the veins coming out of a central location (where the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta). It really does look like the roots of a tree. That's the "pretty" side of the placenta. The other side, where the placenta was attached to the uterus, is not so pretty, but is cool in its own way. It is just a fascinating organ, in general, to me. I mean, two completely separate human beings blood streams come so close in the placenta as to be able to pass nutrients, waste, and other things back and forth, without actually mixing it up with each other. The size of the baby affects the size of the placenta, and/or vice versa. It's just sooooo cooooool!
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Post by anonrefugee on Apr 11, 2015 5:04:19 GMT
Thanks scrapsuzy I've got to look into this! I wonder if one of the Body Works exhibits includes it...? I agree it's a deep subject once you pause to think about it!
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Post by polz on Apr 11, 2015 11:05:09 GMT
In my culture the word for placenta and the word for land is the same. It means 'life giver' and when you think about it, that's what both are. Millions die fighting over lines of dirt on a map because land nourishes and nurtures us (as does the placenta). We would never take a photo of a placenta. Ours are buried at my Nan's house. The land can never be sold, because our babies placentas are there. Circle of life and all that. BTW, the word we use is whenua.
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Post by anonrefugee on Apr 11, 2015 14:03:11 GMT
What a lovely concept @polz. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 14:04:41 GMT
The size of the baby affects the size of the placenta, and/or vice versa. It's just sooooo cooooool! This explains why my midwives said I had the biggest freaking placenta they'd ever seen, after my 11 lb baby was born.
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Post by jenjie on Apr 11, 2015 14:59:42 GMT
It's not gross. If you have changed a pad in your life you have seen grosser. Perhaps, however, I don't generally have a professional photograph that, hang it on the wall and post it up on Facebook. This for sure
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Post by gar on Apr 11, 2015 15:59:08 GMT
In my culture the word for placenta and the word for land is the same. It means 'life giver' and when you think about it, that's what both are. Millions die fighting over lines of dirt on a map because land nourishes and nurtures us (as does the placenta). We would never take a photo of a placenta. Ours are buried at my Nan's house. The land can never be sold, because our babies placentas are there. Circle of life and all that. BTW, the word we use is whenua. That's fascinating polz
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 11, 2015 16:03:01 GMT
Interesting. It's icky, but it's so cool! I wanted to see everything when I had my kids, but all 3 were csections. I begged the dr before my 3rd was born to have a mirror in the OR so I could watch the procedure and his birth, but she said no. That I'd be likely to pass out or freak out during the operation at seeing myself cut open and my insides. That, and she was pretty sure they didn't keep sterilized mirrors in the ORs, so even if she believed my super strong stomach story she couldn't make it happen. But, I would have liked to have seen.
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Post by chaosisapony on Apr 11, 2015 16:24:45 GMT
the way she put it, separated from the tree of life, made me think the child had died! it didn't? I get what she was going for, and maybe my view is tempered my having a friend recently birth a stillborn baby, but.... No. The child is alive and presumably healthy. I'm sorry...I just don't feel comfortable copying and sharing the photo. Oh, I thought this whole time we were talking about a photo of a baby that had died. I agree with blue tulip, "separated from the tree of life" definitely sounds like a phrase for death. I had to click Freebird's spoiler and I so wish I hadn't. So no, please no placenta photos on Facebook.
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Post by kate on Apr 11, 2015 19:32:02 GMT
MMMMMnothanks. My mom, a neonatal nurse, asked me if I wanted to see the placenta of my second child (first was a c-sec). I had absolutely no desire to do so. I had been throwing up during labor, and the placenta felt all gross when it came out... ugh, no. Just no. Of course I had to click on the spoiler pic. I stand by my previous opinion.
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