Maya it is where the individual is symbolically “planted” in the ground to When a Mayan child is born, the placenta is buried in Mayan people’s religious tradition roots them to the earthĪt the moment of birth. To protect new mothers from infection and postpartumĬramping, a Costa Rican midwife may wrap the placenta in paper and bury it in aĭry hole with ashes from the cooking fire. “Native American Navajo tradition encourages the baby’s grandmothers to bury their newborn grandchild’s placenta and umbilical cord at a special place in the earth that represents their dreams for the child.
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MIWI BOYS FULL
Tree over the top as it is so full of potent goodies) or one can also bury theīelow are some varying traditions, rituals and beliefs as taken from one of my favourite books “Placenta – The Forgotten Chakra” by Robin Lim. The placenta can be buried whole (It’sĪ good idea to give it a few weeks in the earth on its own before planting a Many families choose toīury their child’s placenta under a tree. Health of the baby, others believe it brings good luck. Many cultures believe that burying the placenta protects the Returning the placenta to Mamma Earth is very common ritual the world over. Throughout history, if a society has not consumed their placenta they have at the very least acknowledged that the placenta is an organ containing much power and they have treated it with awe and respect. It wasn’t until our son was born 3 years later that we got I then refroze it to bury at a later date. I safely defrosted it, made some placenta blood prints, tinctured a piece and dehydrated the cord into a keepsake. I decided to make a tincture out of our daughters placenta that was in the freezer. It didn’t take long for me to know that I wanted to study to become a certified encapsulation specialist. However, a seed was planted.Īt about 6 months postpartum I started to look further into encapsulation and fell down the rabbit hole of information available. I looked into it briefly but was swept up in my sleep deprived postpartum haze and didn’t take it any further. When I was having milk supply issues our midwife asked if I had considered encapsulating my placenta. My husband and I discussed burying it under a tree when the time was right. It came home with us in an ice cream container and was placed in our freezer. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with our babies placenta, but I knew I didn’t feel comfortable with leaving it at the hospital to be disposed of as medical waste. When our first baby was born in 2013 I had not heard of placenta encapsulation.
MIWI BOYS MOVIE
I stumbled across the photos we took of the burial of our daughters placenta the other day and I noticed that there were lots of accidental mini videos! I have turned them into the above mini movie and I thought I’d share a snippet of our journey. Placenta Burial from Erin Black on Vimeo.
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