Marie says,
 
<<Saving the stem cells for future use is one thing  but   I'd have to  
think really long and hard before I actually ate my baby's  placenta.  
Frankly, I liked the plant a tree  idea.>>
 
I have to say this fast before  the list mothers remind us that placentas 
aren't breastfeeding....but we buried  Timothy's under the yellow rose bush.
 
The rose bush  died.
 
Somewhere around here I still  have the booklet that we wrote when I was 
coordinator of the Family Birthing  Center in Southfield MI (which was a REAL 
alternative birthing center) called  "101 Things to Do with a Used Placenta 
and Other Oddities."  Among the  recipes for placenta stew, we figured you 
could freeze it and play frisbie with  it.  And yes, Marie, this was the late 
70's early 80's.....  No  discussion about it's hormonal value to ward of 
PPD -- and yes, I thought they  were harvesting them for shampoo too....was 
that just an urban  legend?
 
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation Education  Consultants
_www.lactationeducation.com_ (http://www.lactationeducation.com/)  


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