12/10/2025
Did you know your nurse/ midwife can give you a tour of your placenta?
I encourage you to take the tour!
This “after birth” is so much more than just that.
You can see…
🫶🏼the amniotic sac (where baby swam around in the amniotic fluid),
🫶🏼 the tree of life (where the umbilical cord disperses throughout the placenta on baby’s side of the placenta)
🫶🏼 the maternal side of the placenta (the side that attached to your uterus)
🫶🏼 the two umbilical arteries and one umbilical vein (all responsible for gas exchange with the placenta and pressure balancing as well)
By taking the tour of your baby’s first home you gain appreciation for the work you two (or more) have done together over the last 9 months, you will recognize the reason you may have needed iron supplemental support, you are more likely to honor the entire experience you just went through - giving yourself permission to rest and heal the placenta wound in your uterus.
And it can help you gain appreciation for how intricate this whole process of pregnancy and birth is.
Whether your placenta supported you well through your whole pregnancy, or you went through induction because it decided to stop working (like for preeclampsia) you can still take the tour 🤍
Did you tour your placenta? Let me know in the comments 👇