Placenta Options

Understanding how the Welcoming can quickly move into the Farewell, it is important to know as many of the Farewell options as possible, and as soon as possible, so that whenever appropriate and necessary, your time of Welcoming will reflect what you anticipate to happen next.

Related: During Birth SBD Resources

One such example is information regarding the placenta – because you can incorporate the placenta into the Farewell.

Here are a few placenta options:

artwork – you or your stillbirthday doula can make placenta prints during the Welcoming, which can be a beautiful and unique keepsake.
jewelry – please see Beyond the Willow Tree for more
planting or burying – whether you resonate more with the idea of planting or of burying your baby’s placenta, this can be such a meaningful and precious act of Farewell.

Your SBD doula can share with you more about any of these options. Having a Hospital Liability Release form can also help.

We absolutely love partnering with organizations who serve with integrity and who bring creativity, resourcefulness and skill into such precious moments. Beyond the Willow Tree is a trusted organization who creates keepsakes from breastmilk, umbilical cord, placenta, and/or a tiny snip of baby’s hair.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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