Strange habit of other Grandmother

When my youngest son’s cord end dropped off at home a few days after coming home from hospital it fell on the floor and my Labrador got it before I did😳.
He seemed to enjoy it.

Teeth and hair, yes.
Umbilical cord, ugh!

Grandmabatty

I kept the tiny bit of cord, baby teeth and a bit of baby hair from the first cut for years! Clearly I'm odd then.

Ditto!

We can be odd together 😃

I kept the tiny bit of cord, baby teeth and a bit of baby hair from the first cut for years! Clearly I'm odd then.

I think it’s weird.
I have heard of people eating the placenta.
There’s no accounting for taste.
Personally I prefer a roast dinner.

Each to their own , but I find it very weird indeed!

Well we're going to be seeing a lot of poos, fingernails, haircuts, scabs etc so not quite the same. Just the one little nub.

I didn't do it with the other 4. Which is possibly strange .

Just something I did .

Not sinister, but strange. I mean how far do you take it? First poo, fingernails, first haircut, first scab?

I've got my eldest son's. It had dropped out one evening and I felt bad about throwing it away. I popped it in a tiny jar adve it's still up they're there, 35 years later .

Nothing sinister about it at all

Or... maybe you should Google "umbilical cord art" or "umbilical cord jewellery" or similar...

It won't be huge pieces I think and it won't be grisly as I think she means the small stump of dried up cord that falls off the baby's belly button in the first couple of weeks of life. I think it's unusual for the grandmother to keep this - I think if it's kept it's usually the parents who choose to keep it. After all, it's just small and dry and tiny - finger-tip sized and pebble-like. It's the last physical remnant of the physical mother-child bond. I don't personally think it's grisly.

If she doesn't mean saving this cord-stump but instead is offering to freeze or otherwise medically save/store the cord or cord blood for baby's future use - what's not to like? It's an extremely valuable product and in future may become even more so.

Does she keep them at home - that would be weird - or does she pay for them to be stored as Oops suggests. That is a very thoughtful thing to do.

Seems very odd. Witchcraft?

or to chew on?!
I would imagine it's gristly, as well as grisly.

Your daughter agreed so doesn’t think it grisly surely

Well obviously the daughters or sons go along with it so guess she’s doing nothing wrong…. takes all sorts
Yuk wouldn’t it go smelly and shrink
But up to them

Umbilical cord stem cells.
Can be used it the child has problems, but not if it’s kept in a cupboard.
I think it’s kept frozen in a Medical facility somewhere.

No I haven't heard of that. Sounds very odd. I have heard of the placenta being dug into the roots of rose bushes. That's strange as well but at least it has been put to a good use.

Does she keep them in match boxes? Well if they are an uncommunicative lot you don't have to discuss it with her.
Don't try and compete!!