It is possible that what we think is a beautiful image to other people seems unpleasant, and that is that in Western culture the placenta is usually seen as an organ of disgusting appearance that many mothers do not even see, which is eliminated in hospitals Without giving more account of her.
However, this baby named Harper was born in New Zealand, where Maori culture has a very different conception of the placenta. So different, that they use the same word to define "placenta" and "earth": "whenua", because once the baby is born, the placenta returns to her, to Mother Earth. That's why we can tell you about this picture as beautiful, so much that even the cord says "Love".
The placenta will be buried under a tree in the city where her mother, Jolene Spies, comes from, and the photo is the work of Emma Jean Nolan, a midwife who is dedicated to photography, who posted the image on her Facebook, achieving more than 4,000 likes.
It was an hour and a half after Harper was born when they wrote "Love" with her cord and Emma took the picture. The intention was to show what the fruit of a normal birth is like, with the baby, its cord and the placenta and, incidentally, explain how the Maori do it with their placentas, what it means to them, how they treat it and how they honor it.
What do you think about the photo, and what do you think about the Maori tradition? Because I like it much more than what we do here, really.
