tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915362267375371325.post5849738325928837276..comments2022-09-27T13:14:49.782-07:00Comments on Heart Radical: Defrosting the Placenta Anne Liu Kellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04194237835279617391noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915362267375371325.post-18231709792897994962014-07-17T11:07:57.565-07:002014-07-17T11:07:57.565-07:00Thanks for sharing your story, Rue. I hope you fin...Thanks for sharing your story, Rue. I hope you find an option that resonates with you inside. For me there was something very powerful in just revisiting the placenta, and in the ritual itself. Our lilac has still not bloomed (I think we need some more store-bought fertilizer :), but the ritual of burying it was still important. Maybe, if you did decide to bury it in the state you are in now, it could become more about the ritual of that day and moment (and the memory of the ritual), than about the actual placenta and its nutrients itself. Just a thought... You could document the ritual through photos and writing. Thanks again for sharing and reading. xo, AnneAnne Liu Kellorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04194237835279617391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915362267375371325.post-48692678638961818602014-07-17T10:26:06.808-07:002014-07-17T10:26:06.808-07:00Absolutely thank you for this. My daughter's p...Absolutely thank you for this. My daughter's placenta has been in the back of the freezer for 21 months. The original plan was to plant a tree but every time we tried it just didn't feel right or there wasn't a perfect enough place. So it's been waiting for the perfect place since those first few tries. However, now I'm forced to do something because our time in the Military is coming to a rapid end in the next 12 days. We are moving across country and surprisingly we're having a hard time trying to figure out what to do. We will probably never return to this state and it's very upsetting to think we'd be leaving something so precious behind. My idea is to take it (still sealed in its container) and place it into a large planter and cover it in cement. (We've even bought the cement) as the future plan is to have a statue added to it later. But now I'm finding myself pausing again. It is so..difficult to explain to other people how hard this decision is to make. I was raised complete and total earth child and have graduated to complete earth mama, so this experience is both exciting and very sad. I have also contemplated moving across country with it and just keeping it stocked in a cooler with lots of ice. I would like to still plant it but after two years I've been told the nutrients are now gone. And if i'm honest, we're a little concerned on how bad it will smell! Well. We have 12 days to decide what we're going to do but I had to share this with you before your story has really touched me and is helping me to cope with this unavoidable choice! :) I hope your lilac will flourish!!<br /><br />- RueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915362267375371325.post-11768197314482932962012-10-03T16:15:52.003-07:002012-10-03T16:15:52.003-07:00Thanks, Betsy! Watering with bath water- you are a...Thanks, Betsy! Watering with bath water- you are a true earth mama indeed! May the lavender thrive and grow strong.Anne Liu Kellorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04194237835279617391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915362267375371325.post-27446047212853455322012-10-02T21:01:27.157-07:002012-10-02T21:01:27.157-07:00LOVE that!
We planted our sons placenta in the s...LOVE that! <br />We planted our sons placenta in the spring of 2010, when he was one week old, under a small Hebe plant. For the first few months I made sure the plant was watered with his bath water (total earth mama!) But in the following months into summer, as much as I thought about watering it, and pestered my husband to give it a drink, it never happened and the poor plant dried up and withered away by fall. <br />This spring, 2012, after my daughter was born, we planted her placenta under a tiny lavender bush where the Hebe plant would have been. I've tried to be much better this time around (still using her bath water, AND tap water), but I'm very surprised the lavender is still there after much neglect and our extremely dry summer. I think I better go fill up a bucket and give it a drink right now!<br />You should be glad you waited til the fall, if it ever rains. And so smart to freeze it, wish I would have thought of that!<br />Not many people know about our placenta planting, I don't think many people 'understand'. And those that do, just think it's gross. <br />Blessed to know another like minded Mama!<br />Happy GROWING!!!Betsy Rockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17467524042103803569noreply@blogger.com