New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

How I live... Thinking outside the box ‘MY GIFT TO NEW MUMS’

There’s always a discussion after a birth, where the mum is asked what she wants done with her placenta – does she want to keep it to bury at home or have it thrown away? Often it’s the dad who makes the joke, ‘Ha, you could eat it!’

In 2014, I was photographing a home birth when a mum said to me, “I really want it turned into capsules – do you

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