What I used to do with the placenta

• What used to do with the placenta

What I used to do with the placenta

The question of what to do with the placenta after the birth of the child, troubled young mothers at all times. The newborn is healthy, obmyt and even fed. Remains placenta - "Children's Place", fed the crumbs of 9 months. Just throw it in the trash would be blasphemous. Each nation had its own traditions that dictate how to handle women with placenta.

Russian tradition

After birth the midwife performed a number of rituals that were supposed to give him health, beauty, strength, wealth. A child cut umbilical cord (boys - on the ax, girls - to the spinning wheel to increased skillful and masterovitymi), and then bathed in water with coins (wealth). Midwife gently straightened his arms and legs, smoothed face.

After the baby was ready, it was time to take the placenta. This fleshy education, literally nourished fetus in the womb, the ancient Slavs was seen as part of the child. The last is not only fed the baby, but also connected it with the spirit world. According to popular belief, only coming out of the womb and separated from the placenta, a person becomes alive. Until this moment he is in, as it were in "limbo" state between the real world and the afterlife. Because the placenta is entered into man's relationship with the world of spirits, after the birth of her he had to "return".

"The Funeral" placenta

the return of the rite was performed quite simple: follow wrapped in a piece of cloth and buried in the backyard under a tree or a bath. This action symbolized the burial. Moreover, "bury" the last had to be sure the umbilical cord up to the newborn is not claimed premature death, and appeared in the family and other kids. In the "grave" often put grain and poured water to propitiate spirits.

If the couple is no longer wanted to have children, the woman on the fortieth day after the birth to dig out the last, he turned the cord down and buried again. This peculiar method of contraception is often used in the Yaroslavl province. Locals believe that this mother earth "attract" to his baby, which a woman would conceive in the future.

The traditions of other nations

Despite the strangeness of this tradition, Russian women behaved quite logical and justified. But a number of the people of Africa and Indonesia placenta was made to eat. That is what animals sired by new offspring. According to this ancient tradition, the child seat helps mothers make up the physical strength, strengthens its spirit and in the future ensure fertility.

In Mexico and Bali just given birth to a woman given to chew a piece of the placenta to her uterus fell faster. In the placenta, indeed, contain oxytocin hormones, progesterone and estrogen, helps the body to return to the mothers' doberemennoe "state.

Eating child seat was also the prevention of uterine bleeding, and zinc contained in it helps prevent postpartum depression.