From: About.com Pregnancy Childbirth
While the placenta might not be the most thrilling aspect of your
birth, you have to acknowledge the amazing abilities it has as it
helps your baby through the long nine months of your pregnancy.
Find out why your doctor or midwife looks at the placenta in detail
after you give birth. (Includes pictures!) Related: What did you do
with your placenta? Placental Exam Cutting the Umbilical Cord
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Choosing a Practitioner for Your Pregnancy
So, you're pregnant! Congrats, now who will provide your care? Do
you care if you have a woman or a man? Do you prefer a midwife to a
doctor? Do you even know all of the options that you have? Believe
it or not the choices are more than midwife or doctor... Where do
they do births? Do they have partners? Ah, so many questions to
ask. What is your favorite interview question to ask when
interviewing a care provider? The choice of your practitioner is
very important because you will be spending a lot of time with them
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My placenta was so much bigger than I thought it would be. I don't
know why but I envisioned that it would be maybe the size of a
fist, but it was more like a flattened basketball. Even though I
wrote in my birth plan that we would be taking it home, my mom had
to chase it down as the nurse wheeled it away on the birth cart
after Danica was born.She took it home and put it in the fridge.
Three or four days later, I went over to her house and she and my
doula made placenta prints with it. They used only the natural
blood that was on it, and there was enough for about a dozen
prints. They experimented with many different positions by laying
it down on watercolor paper.Here is a fresh one. As you can see,
the blood is still bright red:
The Whole Nine Months
Nine months can seem like a long time at the beginning of
pregnancy. From the pregnancy test and early pregnancy symptoms to
the first contractions, it's almost a year! Though the truth of the
matter is that you have so much going on that you may often forget
about the whole span of time and focus on the here and now. I have
gotten really good at this. The the issue for me becomes "waking
up" at about seven months and realizing it's only a few weeks
before the baby comes... So if you're like me and like everything
in a quick version, here is: Pregnancy: The Whole Nine Months or
here is the Pregnancy Week by Week version if that's how you prefer
it. How do you calculate your pregnancy: Months Wee...