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Seth James Pearce’s Birth Story

This is the story of how Seth, our firstborn son, was born.

It was my first pregnancy and all went really well. We had tried to conceive for a while and even before I finally fell pregnant we had decided we wanted as natural a pregnancy and birth as possible, which led us to seek the services of a midwife rather than a gynae.

We finally found Xoli, our midwife, and decided to have our baby at Linkwood Clinic as we couldn’t find a midwife we were happy with to help us with a homebirth.

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From The Unnecesarean.com

Ever wondered what people do with the placenta when it is not discarded of through a hospital?

I have heard of eating it as a cure for Post Natal Depression. Why would anyone even consider this? – well placenta is said to be very high in nutrients and vitamins beneficial to a mothers’ healing – you can read various articles here about placenta benefits.

Placenta pills may help to:
• Increase general energy
• Allow a quicker return to health after birth
• Increase production of breast milk
• Decrease likelihood of baby blues and post natal depression
• Decrease likelihood of iron deficiency
• Decrease likelihood of insomnia or sleep disorders

Luckily I did not suffer from post natal depression but for some it is debilitating and I think anything that can help or prevent it would become a life-line (and lose its ick factor). My mother suffered PND very badly after my own birth – it was in a time when post natal depression was not recognised and women were told to simply ‘buck up’ which I have been told simply made it worse. It took long for her to recover from it but she was lucky to have had support in my father and aunt. Knowing this now (I was unaware as a child) I can look back and understand better our hot & cold relationship and also my very close attachment to my dad.

There are some new ones here that I had not thought of (specifically the ‘crafty’ ones) and somehow these make me feel even more squeamish than the idea of a placenta sandwich.
Read 5 fun things you can do with your Baby’s Placenta from Inhabitots.com

What did you do with the placenta and what do these ideas make you think / feel?