On February 13th, Avery Grace Whitehead was dedicated to Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas with her mommy, daddy, Gigi, Pops, Aunt Brooke, and Uncle Dave. (Aunt Leslie was driving into town so she got to come a little later on!) It was a wonderful blessing to see the Pastor and everyone welcome my daughter to church. God certainly has blessed us beyond all measure!
I have had the most horrible case of writer's block lately! With that said, I saw this article on Babycenter and I just had to write something about it. So, we've heard of the trend of eating the placenta after birth . We've heard of the trend of putting them in pill form to get the nutrients . But this? This to me, is just the craziest of them all. As a group of beings on this planet, I've never seen any other mammal who evolves to get to a certain place, then de-evolves on purpose, to be more "natural." I am sure I am seriously about to put my foot in my mouth, I am sure there are (some) people out there that I might offend with my "closed-mindedness" on this topic. But this is just, well, ridiculous to me. Basically, after the placenta comes out, instead of cutting the cord and detaching it from the baby, you leave the placenta on, they salt it to help with the decomp process, add rosemary (I am guessing for the smell?), then p...
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