Placenta plans?

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I’m just curious, are any of you ladies planning on eating, making placenta into a drank, or planting your placenta? 
I just read Hilary Duff made hers into a smoothie and drank it. It made me want look up why women consume their placenta

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Absolutely hell to the no

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I did placenta encapsulation last time (which included a smoothie, salve, tincture, placenta prints of both maternal and fetal side, and a piece of the umbilical cord dried into a heart)... it was a package deal and the only thing that creeped me out was the umbilical cord (wtf do you do with that?!) and I never found a good use for the tincture drops [but I also don’t use essential oils or homeopathic drops, so 🤷🏻‍♀️]
I have several significant autoimmune diseases that come crashing back postpartum and the pills and smoothie helped give me an additional 10 weeks before my first flare, I feel like it helped my milk come in sooner and better than was expected, I had ZERO “baby blues” or feelings of being overwhelmed by new motherhood which are all bonkers common feeling *and* I was an only parent starting a new business with no close family for help. 
Worst case it was a really excellent, individualized vitamin, but I got real verifiable results so I’m for sure doing it again... maybe minus all the other stuff?

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It will be biowaste for me.

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I’ll just be having my midwife discard it

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Nope nope nope. However if you have a c-section at our hospital, you can chose to donate it. They use it for skin grafts!

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In our Indigenous culture, we keep ours and burn the placenta in ceremony. We then keep 3 pieces of the cord, 1 for mom, dad n child, the childs is placed in a special location

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thats disgusting, heck no for me

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I’d be down to plant it, but we aren’t this time.

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FTM and I’m encapsulating mine. I’ll also get a first aid salve and skin balm made from it as well. I also get the umbilical cord keepsake which I won’t keep. I had a tour of the place I’ll be using last week and I’m pretty excited!

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I was going to until I had to go on meds for my gestational diabetes :/

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