A Placenta Picture Frame as a Keepsake?

Amanda Cotton is an artist who has found an innovative way to honor the human placenta: by creating a picture frame. Imagine using raw materials provided by your body to hold and treasure a beautiful keepsake such as a photograph of your newborn.

I think this is an interesting concept, especially because you can keep it forever, and I love that people are continuing to think of ways to honor the placenta instead of discarding it as waste material.

Personally, I loved ingesting my placenta so much that I would find it hard to make a picture frame from it and miss the benefits of its consumption. I felt so much more balanced this last time around when I took my placenta and I never plan to do a postpartum period without my placenta again. It was so helpful and I had an absolutely blissful babymoon.

To learn more of Amanda's work: http://www.amandacotton.co.uk/placenta-/433778_placenta-photo-frame-.html.

What do you think? Creepy or cool?

Crazy Super Fast Birth

http://birthwithoutfearblog.com/2013/02/13/the-birth-story-of-finley-nathaniel-planned-homebirth-unplanned-unassisted/

This was a great birth story of a crazy super fast birth. It's nice to know that birth can be this way too. There's so many variations of normal.

Could You Be Experiencing Postpartum Anxiety?

Read about one mom's experience with postpartum anxiety. It's important to recognize and it's important to get help!

http://www.mothering.com/community/a/mothering-with-mental-illness-inside-postpartum-anxiety

These Twins Can't Stop Hugging

This is sweet!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/newborn-twins-hugging-bath-video_n_4282550.html

Surprise Twin Breech VBAC on Side of Road

http://offbeatfamilies.com/2012/05/surprise-twin-roadside-vbac

Incredible story!

Doula Vocab Lesson

Yep. That's pretty much what it feels like. 

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