Traditions

Everyone has their personal list of favorite holiday traditions. Many come from our childhood, remembering what our own families did each and every year. Some are new traditions we have started with our own nuclear families, hoping our children will carry with them the same fond memories as they grow up.

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Jerry Chan's Baby Blog -- Chapter 3

I have just eaten, perhaps, the strangest thing I have ever ingested in my life: three gel capsules filled with bits of my wife/baby’s dried, ground-up placenta. Why, you may ask, would I do such an utterly bizarre thing? To be honest, I’m not sure, but allow me to explain why I figure it wouldn’t hurt.

The night of our baby’s birth, as I was filling out all the procedural forms to help prep my wife for her C-section, the doctor asked me an unexpected question: “Do you want to keep the placenta?” (tai pan 胎盘 in Chinese). Not having any idea what she was talking about, I figured it would be best to follow my mother-in-law’s cue and nod accordingly.

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