If you ate your placenta

[Anonymous]

Has eating the placenta been PROVEN to help with PPD and breast feeding or is it just a placebo effect?

[Anonymous]

More links -

http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/1577334/Placenta_Encapsulation_Instructions_w_Pictures

http://www.drmomma.org/2010/08/happy-pills-placenta-encapsulation.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22087790/ns/health-womens_health/t/placenta-pizza-some-new-moms-try-old-rituals/

Placenta Recipes: **warning contains graphic placenta pictures**
http://www.twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html

[Anonymous]

Is there a secondary placenta market? I mean, I have no interest in eating mine, but could I sell it to someone else? Maybe a menopausal woman?

Or, is there already a black market? Are OB nurses and birthing centers selling unclaimed placenta (placentas? placentae?) to illicit encapsulators, who in turn are selling them surreptitiously in health food stores? And what's the code you have to say to the clerk to get access to someone else's placenta?

So many questions . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

get back what belongs to my body

It doesn't belong in your body that is why it is expelled in the first place. Mother Nature knows best.

Do you really wanna go there? Mammals have been ingesting their placenta for several different reasons for a long long time...

They also eat their own poo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You tell her PP!.

With that smug and defensive attitude OP, you will continue to get snarky replies from "trolls"

Have no desire to read further and help such a bitch, either.

[Anonymous]

We also used to tie women down and drug the hell out of them when they were giving birth. We also used chloroform on laboring women. We, as a society, have done a CRAZY amount of things to "help" women give birth, except it's pretty much the most natural thing a woman could do, science just gets in the way.

BTW your body isn't "getting rid of" the placenta, it's expelling it for the mother's use. HUGE difference. Almost every land mammal does eat their placenta after birth, and not every one of those is concerned about predators. It's made by the woman, for the woman. Of course I would argue that "cooking" methods may destroy the nutrients within, but we'll need to see a study comparing raw vs. different methods (I'm not holding my breath).

I will be encapsulating, if it helps, great, if not, I'm no worse off.

[Anonymous]

"cooking" methods may destroy

Ridiculous. If you want to follow the made by and for argument of the mammals then you would need to follow it to its fruition and eat it just as it is intended--warm and raw fresh from the uterus. To do anything else is as crazy as all of the other birthing practices that have fallen to the wayside because they are not what nature intended. You logic extemely flawed. A dried placenta eaten weeks or months after the fact in no way resembles a fresh, raw, warm placenta.

[Anonymous]

Twelve years ago when someone i knew buried the placenta in their backyard I thought it was weird. Eating it is just plain disgusting. Maybe drink tequilla first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Twelve years ago when someone i knew buried the placenta in their backyard I thought it was weird. Eating it is just plain disgusting. Maybe drink tequilla first.

They used to say that formula was better than BM in the 70s and any mom who attempted to breastfeed was a dirty hippie... right?



"They" changed their mind really quick... only 3 decades...

[Anonymous]

Have not read the responses, but I had someone encapsulate my placenta for the second birth, after having PPD with my first birth, and it worked like a charm - no burping or any other side effects.
I lost a lot of blood after the second birth, and refused a transfusion, so I was also concurrently taking iron.

Good luck, I think it is worth it!

[Anonymous]

sad placenta don't eat me pet me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous. If you want to follow the made by and for argument of the mammals then you would need to follow it to its fruition and eat it just as it is intended--warm and raw fresh from the uterus. To do anything else is as crazy as all of the other birthing practices that have fallen to the wayside because they are not what nature intended. You logic extemely flawed. A dried placenta eaten weeks or months after the fact in no way resembles a fresh, raw, warm placenta.

It's not whether or not it resembles it, it's whether or not it still retains the same nutritional values.

[Anonymous]

I wish all these "its natural" people - you know mammals do it, birds do it, and bees do it -would go whole hog and get the hell off the internet. Really, if you want to lick your kid clean and eat afterbirth and all that, just go the whole 9 and go live in the woods somewhere. Leave the technology to those that recognize we've evolved and stop spreading your stupidity around....

[Anonymous]

It's funny how with all the "advances" of modern science and medicine you would think our infant mortality rates would be declining...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

get back what belongs to my body

It doesn't belong in your body that is why it is expelled in the first place. Mother Nature knows best.

Do you really wanna go there? Mammals have been ingesting their placenta for several different reasons for a long long time...

They also eat their own poo.

And sometimes their young. Mammals might eat the placenta because they needed something immediately afterbirth for nutrition and to make sure there wasn't a scent for predators. I don't think we need to chew the umbilical cord either.

Horses ' foals break the umbilical cord when they stand about 5-15 minutes after birth. Dogs bite it off and pull/lick off the membrane.
I didn't reguritate chewed food for babies so I see no need to eat placenta or a shit sausage.

http://www.wolfcountry.net/information/WolfPup.html