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Birth is one of the most important events of our lives. A baby's arrival is seen as the completion of pregnancy. However, no birth is complete until the placenta is born also. Sadly, in much of the Western world, the placenta is regarded as medical waste and discarded. Did you know that at the time of birth, the placenta is still very much alive? Do you know the placenta can provide value for both the mother and baby long after the birth? Do you know what your placenta can do for you? Utilizing the placenta after the birth might be an unusual idea for some, even down-right shocking for others. Nonetheless, the placenta is an integral part of every birth and its disposition is rapidly becoming an important part of every expectant mother's birth plans. Ruth Goldberg provides both the traditional and scientific foundations for extracting all the goodness from the placenta. Each of the following options are explored in detail; delayed cord clamping, cordblood collection, cord burning, lotus birth, encapsulation and ritual burial. Each chapter contains resource materials for each option. A wealth of both Sacred and scientific knowledge is contained within these pages and should be on every expectant mother wish list and in every birth professional's library.

The Time Traveler's Dilemma Afterbirth - LP 856066006636

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2009 release from the German 'Transcendental Drone Muzak' outfit. Troum's bonecracking reverberations respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules are blown away. Eald-Ge-Streon is a massive, rising beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but an ant in the afterbirth. Troum has set it's controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating inferno of these seven drone concertos may require an insurance adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn.

Placenta Wit is an interdisciplinary anthology of stories, rituals, and research that explores mothers contemporary and traditional uses of the human afterbirth. Authors inspire, provoke and highlight diverse understandings of the placenta and its role in mothers creative life-giving. Through medicalization of childbirth, many North American mothers do not have access to their babies placentas, nor would many think to. Placentas are often considered to be medical property, and/ or viewed as the refuse of birth. Yet there is now greater understanding of motherand baby-centred birth care, in which careful treatment of the placenta and cord can play an integral role. In reclaiming birth at home and in clinical settings, mothers are choosing to keep their placentas. There is a revival, and survival, of family and community rituals with the placenta and umbilical cord, including burying, art making, and consuming for therapeutic use. Claiming and honouring the placenta may play a vital role in understanding the sacredness of birth and the gift of life that mothers bring. Placenta Wit gathers narrative accounts, scholarly essays, creative pieces and artwork from this emergence of placental interests and uses. This collection includes understandings from birth cultures and communities such as home-birth, hospital-birth, midwifery, doula, Indigenous, and feminist perspectives. Once lost, now found, Placenta Wit authors capably handle and care for this wise organ at the roots of motherhood, and life itself.

Ron Mueck (b. 1958) is known for his extraordinarily lifelike sculptures of people in fragile, naked states: a postpartum woman, a crouching, cornered man, and, perhaps most famously, the body of his dead father. Mueck plays dramatically with scale; a newborn baby, with traces of afterbirth and blood, looms impressively over viewers, measuring sixteen feet from crown to foot, while a spooning half-clothed couple would fit easily on a coffee table. In each case, the amount of detail—individual pores and dimples, hairs and blemishes—is uncanny. The figures are disconcerting and yet impossible to resist. Mueck's obsessive attention to detail and craft has its beginnings in his early days as a model maker and puppeteer for films like Jim Henson's Labyrinth. It was in 1997, when noted dealer Charles Saatchi discovered Mueck's work and included his sculpture Dead Dad in the groundbreaking Sensation show, that Mueck began to attract international attention. Today, the artist's sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent, and identifiable works of contemporary art.  Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this beautifully illustrated book is the first to provide a comprehensive look at Mueck's work to date. The book offers detailed insight into the artist's ideas and methods and features a catalogue raisonné. Essays by leading scholars highlight the depth of his practice and further affirm Mueck's importance.