Placenta Liberation Front: The Magical Placenta

Another Guest post from the lovely 2 Doulas on a Mission. Thanks ladies!!! If this sounds like something you need to be a part of, email the PLF at placentaliberationfront (at) gmail (dot) com and get on our list. As soon as we have 4 interested people ready to go, we will hold another class.

Yet another magical experience playing with a magical placenta. Danielle recently attended a brilliant and beautiful home birth. She happened to have slept over at my house the night before the got called to the birth. The next morning I heard her banging around in the kitchen, I looked at the clock and it was 6am. My first thought was “Dammit! If I had known she was gonna get up at 6 I would’ve told her to sleep at her own house! Then a half second later it occured to me that the only reason she’d be up this early was for a birth And sure enough – she was.

The afternoon following the birth I went to her house to hear all about it, and we ended up back at my house to process the placenta. Danielle had made the mama a smoothie immediately after birth with a raw chunk in it. Now we were going to take the rest and make capsules and our first tincture.

The first thing that both of us noticed was how different this placenta was, compared to some others we had done. It was bright red, full of thick blood vessels and very sturdy. The energy we felt while preparing this particular placenta was much different as well. It was light, pure and beautiful. We tossed around ideas….Was it the mothers excellent health? The fact that it was at home? Unmedicated? Whatever the reason, we were honored to be preparing it.