When I found out we were pregnant again I couldn’t wait to have some fun with my placenta. When I encapsulated my daughters placenta nearly 8 years ago I never thought about doing a print or a cord keepsake. My main focus was I never ever wanted to experience the amount of postpartum depression I had with #3 ever again. I hired someone to encapsulate baby #5s placenta and she did a cord keepsake and a print for me and over the years of love of placentas has grown so when I got pregnant with #6 (and our last) I knew I had to encapsulate myself and I had to make it awesome!
I asked our amazing midwife Sarah to cut the cord close to baby so I could have a nice long cord to work with. She was very happy and excited to accept that request. I was hoping to get a long and skinny enough cord to write “love” or his name. I didn’t get that but it was long enough to make his initial. I used stretched canvas to make two prints that I’m obsessed with.
Asher sleeps with us but he does have a little area in our room that I decorated for him using his keepsakes. Often people ask what they can do with their cord keepsakes. I think what I did with mine is great. I put it in a shadow box with other items of importance.
If you are interested in something like my canvases please let me know and we can work together to create something great.
