{"id":7387,"date":"2014-05-15T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:32:14","slug":"what-to-do-with-that-placenta-you-have-lying-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7387","title":{"rendered":"What to do with that Placenta You Have Lying Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have mentioned fondly our wonderful friends from New Zealand before, but I must reiterate just how much they mean to us in the short time we have known them. They are without a doubt the easiest people to be around- funny, gentle, and down-to-earth. They are on the same page with us parenting-wise, which is always nice. More than that, I find myself inspired by Kim’s patience with both her boys and her gentle way of mothering. I can and do learn a lot from her each time we are together with our boys… 5 of them when we are all together! They are both exceptionally smart and witty. It’s just good to be around them, and we adore their boys.<\/p>\n

When Kim gave birth to her second babe Ezra here in the States, she had a home birth and therefore found herself with a placenta on her hands. As is the tradition in New Zealand, she wanted to plant it under a tree, only they are eventually planning on returning home after Dave’s schooling is complete, so they had no tree to plant it under. We happened to be in the market for a couple more fruit trees on our property… you can see where this is heading!<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0071\"<\/a>So last week we got the trees: a peach and a “magic” apple tree (it has four different varieties of apples thanks to grafting branches from different apple tree varieties onto one tree- how cool is that?). We had an impromptu celebratory dinner on our back deck in the middle of the week (perfect!), dug a couple of holes (alright, Andrew dug the holes and accidentally severed our sprinkler line in the process… whoops. all is well now), threw a thawing placenta into one of the holes, and threw plenty of compost down on top of that before planing the peach tree there. And I’m thinking a peach tree was the perfect choice: Ezra is sweet like a peach, he is juicy and plump and fuzzy like one too! Who can resist?\"DSC_0079\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DSC_0096\"<\/a>It was a wonderful experience! Thanks for making this planting such a good memory, dear friends!<\/p>\n

P.s.- Hugo is Emil’s bestest friend in the WHOLE world… I’m hoping his behavior rubs off on Emil and not the other way round!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have mentioned fondly our wonderful friends from New Zealand before, but I must reiterate just how much they mean to us in the short time we have known them. They are without a doubt the easiest people to be around- funny, gentle, and down-to-earth. They are on the same page with us parenting-wise, which … Continue reading “What to do with that Placenta You Have Lying Around”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,99,187],"tags":[58,115,173,48],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-green-living","category-motherhood","tag-friends","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}