24/07/2025
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🩸 Stop Yanking the Placenta.
Why are so many OBs still forcefully pulling placentas out of people’s bodies like it’s garbage that needs to be evacuated?
The placenta is not a nuisance.
It’s an organ.
A sacred one.
One that sustained life.
One that deserves respect.
Parents can birth their placentas on their own, physiologically, gently, and without someone yanking on the cord like they’re starting a lawnmower.
Forced cord traction isn’t always necessary.
In fact, it disrupts physiology, increases risk of hemorrhage, and disrespects the final stage of labor.
But they’re in a rush.
They don’t trust the body.
They don’t trust you.
And yet, that final birth, of the placenta, deserves just as much reverence as the baby who came before it.
Stop treating the end of labor like a cleanup job.
It’s still birth.
And it still matters.
-Love,
Flor Cruz
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