After your placenta has arrived, and you caregiver is done checking it over, it is important to get the plancenta on ice. If birthing in hospital it is a good idea to bring 2 large ziploc bags and a cooler. Put one bag inside the other, then place the placenta inside, then into the cooler. The hospital will have ice for you to fill the cooler. If you have forgotten your cooler and bags, the nurses will provide you with a biohazard bag, request two and place ice in the outside bag and the placenta in the inside bag. This should happen no less than 2 hours after birth.
If having a homebirth, have someone put the placenta in a container with a lid (ice cream bucket works well) and into the fridge, also should happen within two hours.
Call as soon as you can after birth, and if the birth is at night, call the next morning.
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