In honor of the Amazing Placenta...

The Embryonic Flower-Placenta

Lotus Baby-Placenta being handed back to mother by father during the first hour after birth.

Homebirth mother fascinated with the newly birthed placenta, still attached to her baby, cord intact.

This is the Tree-of-Life side of the Placenta, the side that is the baby's pillow in-utero, pulsing continuously with life and sending pulsations up the umbical cord to the baby's navel center.