Clinic Offers Placenta Artwork as Birth Memorabilia

If you have heard of mums eating their placenta after giving birth, there’s another trend in Czech Republic that is much less, well, gross.

A maternity clinic in the town of Rakovnik, north-western Czech Republic, is now offering a bizarre promotion for new mums as a keepsake — placenta artwork. It has announced on its social media page this new “timeless piece of art” for new mums.

The clinic’s statement reads: “We have prepared for you the possibility to get an imprint of your baby’s placenta in an artistic design.”

The clinic also added that mums can get this at a low price of just $32 (CZK600) and mums who want the framed artwork only need to inform the midwives just as they are going into labour.

While some mums thought the idea was great and willingly paid the small fee to take the souvenir home, others compared it to getting “an imprint of your own excrement” and said the idea was disgusting.

Dr Ales Roztocil, from the Czech National Association of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, said that he didn’t think the idea was unusual considering some mothers even take their placenta home to eat it.

There are also some Czech companies that prepare meals made from placenta, such as ravioli. Local media reported that mothers can even enjoy sipping cocktail drinks made from their own placenta.

So, now, with the clinic’s new offering, mums are given another choice on what to do with their placenta, other than eating it and planting it beneath a tree — and it’s definitely beautiful.

Source: Kidspot.com.au