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Matthew McConaughey keeps placenta
When I first saw the headline, “McConaughey plans placenta burial”, I thought, “Ah. A new high/low in celebrity wackiness.”
It turns out, though, that burying the placenta is a not uncommon practice in some cultures. In fact, you can even purchase a Placenta Burial Jar online. So making fun of it would be, at best, culturally insensitive.
Still, I have questions. Like, where do you keep the placenta until the burial? In a jar? In the fridge? What does it smell like? And “burial” seems like a morbid term to me, even though that is, literally, what you are doing. And do you visit the site of the burial? Matt says that he was inspired by a “placenta tree” he saw in Australia, so maybe he hopes a tree will pop up where little Levi’s former food supply is put in the ground. So, like, road trip to see the placenta?
In some cultures, the placenta is, um, eaten. I guess Matt didn’t want to go that far. No word on whether or not he’ll keep his damn fool shirt on during the ceremony.
image/source: nzherald.co.nz
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5 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amReally Brett, are you living under a rock? Lot’s of people do this…. I’ve heard birth stories where the smell of onions is strong during crowning b/c the placenta’s going to be stir-fried for the newly nursing mom– lots of nutrients in that sucker!!!!
It’s also freeze dried and encapsulated!
Placenta: not just for burying anymore!
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amShould i have saved the Meconium as well? What abou tmy Lochia? That is full of nutrients too. Silly.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWe kept it in a vacuum-sealed freezer bag until time for the burial. Our son was 2 1/2 when we buried it. We talked about what it was and how he didn’t need it anymore. We buried it under an extremely old and extremely large tree in the forest. It is just one of the ways we try to teach our children to have a love for nature, as we are a part of it. It was a lovely day.
Fwiw, we are not the sort of people you’d imagine have a placenta in the freezer (our daughter’s now)!
brettsinger commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amReally? I guess this is practice more common than I’d thought.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWe kept ours in a plastic container inside the freezer. We had hoped to have a big celebration, but a freezer break-down forced us to bury it quickly. I thought the frozen placenta looked a lot like frozen strawberries.
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