If you ate your placenta

[Anonymous]

How did you do it.

After suffering horrible anemia, PPD and other post partum issues that can be avoided with placenta ingestion I'm considering it for #2. My doula does placenta encapsulation but a friend of mine said she could not stomach it... she was burping that weird feeling for hours after taking the capsules.

I wonder how you can avoid this. I took fenugreek while BF and the burping maple syrup thing made me so ill I had to quit it.

What's your suggestion? No, I'm not interested in recipes or eating it raw I'm not that brave... I'm talking about drying it up and encapsulating it.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[Anonymous]

what?!???!! is this a joke??

[Anonymous]

Just fry it up with some nice fava beans, sluuuurp!

[Anonymous]

I would recommend the encapsulation. I think it's the easiest way. And you can save it for menopause if you don't use all the pills.

[Anonymous]

Just tuck in as soon after the birth as you can manage, but certainly within an hour or so. Encapsulation is cheating, cooking is cheating. Only eating is not cheating.

[Anonymous]

We plan on encapsulating as well, I figure it can't be worse than burping up fish oil.

[Anonymous]

Thanks to the helpful PP. My doctor mentioned the use of the capsules for menopause and he strongly advised me re freezing half of the capsules.

As for the other posters, I knew you would come sooner or later. As for your attitude: Meh, when I was shaking and crying thinking I should not carry my baby because I could drop her and kill her or when I locked my balcony door and placed a huge bookcase in front of it because I was scared of dropping her from our 3rd floor balcony you were not there to give me a helping hand. And whoever was told me to take drugs to make these feelings go away.

When my supply dropped, they said to give formula - yeah, the one with arsenic and sakazakii. And I can't forget the fear of taking those 3 bags of God knows whose blood because I lost too much of mine.

You know what? I wish I was brave enough to eat it raw and get back what belongs to my body. But I'm not and I'm fine with using alternatives. My doctor (OMG yeah! I'm using one how cool is that?) who has been seeing me since I got pregnant and started thinking about a VBAC (yeah! I had a hospital birth the first time and will have another one this time around - sorry to disappoint you) is totally supportive of this procedure, he recommends it and even mentioned he prefers to do it first before suggesting anything else to treat any hormonal imbalance. Oh and he practices "delayed" cord clamping as a standard. And he uses the quotation marks explaining that the way it's done is just what's right. The average standard procedure to clamp while pulsing should be called premature clamping instead.

Anyway, from now on I'll focus on reading the helpful posts with tips on the topic. The trolls can save their fingers because theirs posts will be ignored.

[Anonymous]

And I can't forget the fear of taking those 3 bags of God knows whose blood because I lost too much of mine.

You know what? It might have been mine. I've been donating blood at least six times a year since college. You're welcome.

But, hoping the placenta thing works out for you.

[Anonymous]

Um ew....God people, are you out of your mind?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks to the helpful PP. My doctor mentioned the use of the capsules for menopause and he strongly advised me re freezing half of the capsules.

As for the other posters, I knew you would come sooner or later. As for your attitude: Meh, when I was shaking and crying thinking I should not carry my baby because I could drop her and kill her or when I locked my balcony door and placed a huge bookcase in front of it because I was scared of dropping her from our 3rd floor balcony you were not there to give me a helping hand. And whoever was told me to take drugs to make these feelings go away.

When my supply dropped, they said to give formula - yeah, the one with arsenic and sakazakii. And I can't forget the fear of taking those 3 bags of God knows whose blood because I lost too much of mine.

You know what? I wish I was brave enough to eat it raw and get back what belongs to my body. But I'm not and I'm fine with using alternatives. My doctor (OMG yeah! I'm using one how cool is that?) who has been seeing me since I got pregnant and started thinking about a VBAC (yeah! I had a hospital birth the first time and will have another one this time around - sorry to disappoint you) is totally supportive of this procedure, he recommends it and even mentioned he prefers to do it first before suggesting anything else to treat any hormonal imbalance. Oh and he practices "delayed" cord clamping as a standard. And he uses the quotation marks explaining that the way it's done is just what's right. The average standard procedure to clamp while pulsing should be called premature clamping instead.

Anyway, from now on I'll focus on reading the helpful posts with tips on the topic. The trolls can save their fingers because theirs posts will be ignored.

oh goodness OP, it was just some harmless humor. the title is kinda funny. You gotta give yourself, and others a break here..

[Anonymous]

OP, I am genuinely curious. What benefits are there from eating the placenta? You mentioned you wanted to :get back what belongs to my body." I guess I should google this...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And I can't forget the fear of taking those 3 bags of God knows whose blood because I lost too much of mine.

You know what? It might have been mine. I've been donating blood at least six times a year since college. You're welcome.

But, hoping the placenta thing works out for you.

Thank you very much! And I think it's a beautiful act. For someone in an accident who needs it in an emergency you're really saving a life. But if I can avoid it I will. I've seen more then enough close calls of people receiving the wrong type of blood or people having complications during the transfusion procedure.

I'd rather try the harmless capsules first.

[Anonymous]

When my supply dropped, they said to give formula - yeah, the one with arsenic and sakazakii. And I can't forget the fear of taking those 3 bags of God knows whose blood because I lost too much of mine.

OP, I was sympathetic to you until this. I had to give my baby formula and it was certainly not my first choice, and your palpable disdain for moms like me makes you a distasteful person. This is definitely bolstered by the next statement -- "God knows whose blood." You know whose blood it was? The nasty, disgusting person who took the time out of their day to have blood sucked out of their vein so that YOU could live to raise your child. Like me.

Go to hell.

[Anonymous]

I've heard really great things from people who have tried it, so if you had issues with #1, I would go for it! The people I've heard from have done both just small frozen chunks popped like pills, or the encapsulated method. I want to say there are people that do it in smoothie form, so that could be an option - just add frozen fruit and yogurt?

Best of luck, OP! I imagine it'll be weird at first, but I think it does help!!

[Anonymous]

first, however you do it, if you do end up doing it, is good for you. i hope that it does make you feel better.

but i have never heard of the saving it for menopause. this seems totally impractical to me. i'm 33. my mother didn't go through menopause until she was in her late 40s. are you saying that you're going to save these capsules for 15 years?