Emma Jean Nolan is a midwife and photographer in B...  ...she took this photo of her along with her intact placenta . Nolan shaped the umbilical cord to spell "love."...  ...g with Maori tradition, her parents will take the placenta back to New Zealand and bury it. Nolan describes...  ...olan describes this trad...

Some mothers forgo modern obstetric facilities in...  ...ut the umbilical cord connecting the child to the placenta . Instead, they keep the placenta in a bowl and wait for the umbilical cord to with...  ...nce of infection.It allows a complete transfer of placental /cord blood...