Damian, next time,... contact your local PBi specialist. We can help you obtain what is rightfully yours. Your placenta helped you create your baby, it is a beautiful part of that whole experience. Even if you don't wish to use it for post...partum recovery, it's still a really lovely practice to have a ceremony to honor and place under a plant to grow along with your child. The placenta is no more bio waste than your baby. You have every right to both your baby AND your placenta. PBi Specialists can help. ~LaurenSee More

I was just at a hospital birth with my friend, and she had previously spoken with her doctor about wanting placenta medicine, so the doctor was prepared, and she was on board! It was a little difficult, but in the end after jumping through ...a few hoops, we walked out with the placenta! They had no procedures in place for it,and they all thought we were crazy, but we were adamant, so we won in the end. After explaining to a few of them about the benefits, we even had a few believers!See More