If you ate your placenta

[Anonymous]

Cooking/dehydrating etc. does change the nutritional value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:sad placenta don't eat me pet me

AHHHHHAHAHAHA!!!!!

This thread is so entertaining

My two cents: you've already decided to dry it out, encapsulate it and ingest it. So do it, then come let us know how it worked out for you. And I want real results, blood tests that show your iron levels elevated, not just 'I feel better than last time around'

[Anonymous]

ALSO! This should be posted in the expectant mom forum...

[Anonymous]

Placebo effect. That is all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But if your body delivers it whole, why would it be "natural" to ingest it? The body is getting rid of it. It's not like we eat our menstrual blood to gain strength or whatever... I can't believe a physician would be amenable to thus- maybe they're just humoring you?

If you're anemia, why don't you take iron pills or eat more red meat or spinach?

I want to believe you're asking an honest question so I'll respond with the best of my knowledge...

The placenta is an organ that develops during the pregnancy. It takes so much from your own body - look at how our hair, nails, skin, etc react because of all the nutrients being shifted around between mom and baby... It produces all sorts of hormones - it's like a huge gland producing hormones and filtering nutrients/waste to keep the baby alive while it can't do it on its own.

I've been anemic for several years and the battle to find the reason why is not over yet. I have done all the diets you can think of, I've ingested all sorts of iron pills you can see in the market and nothing has helped. Doctors can't see what's wrong with me. I honestly don't see the harm in this "natural" option.

I'd love to read more about people who have tried it and what they did to help making easy to ingest. There's no way I'll eat it raw or cook it with a meal, though

OK, this is a comment related to the anemia thing, not the placenta thing. If you have unexplained anemia, you may benefit from my story. I had low blood iron for years since my teenage years, but no amount of iron pills ever helped. It wasn't until I did a detailed blood work-up that I was diagnosed with thalassemia minor, which explained both anemia and the reason why iron pills don't help. Give it a try and see if you have that too. All I have to do now is take folic acid.

[Anonymous]

Wow, have you ever seen a prairie graveyard? You know, one with the husband's gravestones next to his three or four wives who all died in childbirth? Just because it's the most natural thing in the world doesn't mean you have to do it old school if you have a choice...
I kinda feel for OP's kid(s) considering she sounds like she is totally off her nut as it is.

[Anonymous]

There was a time when some whites used to refuse blood transfusions from black people, so when I read OPs' defensive comeback I naturally assumed she is a racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Do tell, in your revisitionist evolutionary theory, which land mammal is not concerned about predators when it comes to their young?

It isn't made by the woman for the woman. It is made by the woman for the baby therefore you should really be feeding it to your baby. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Placenta on noodles or in a sandwich http://www.momlogic.com/2009/04/i_ate_the_placenta.php

[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.

Some eat their own babies. You placenta eaters are nutso.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Some eat their own babies. You placenta eaters are nutso.

Exactly! They should be eating the BABY instead, lots of iron in that little sucker. This would also alleviate the breastfeeding concerns.

[Anonymous]

Dear OP, the worst part of all this is that instead of pro-actively approaching the ppd issues and the anemia (with psychotherapy therapy, a plan for anti-depressant medication, a fortified diet, a visit to a reputable hematologist - as the thal minor poster posted), you are focusing on EATING YOUR PLACENTA.

given your description of your PPD (worrying you might throw the baby off the balcony), you need to FORTIFY yourself against something worse - like post partum psychosis. i think you need to take your condition very seriously, as PPD has been shown to get worse with subsequent pregnancies. if your OB is truly saying that eating your placenta may "cure" your hormonal issues, you need a new OB.

additionally, you should prepare yourself that you may need another blood transfusion if you bleed excessively during labor (have you been worked up for a bleeding problem? like vwf?). and please, do be very, very grateful for the thousands of people who willingly undergo a painful and unpleasant procedure to ensure that you live another day to care for your children. i am a physician and understand you have fears of blood transfusions, but reactions and inappropriate administration of the wrong blood product are exceedingly rare.

good luck.

[Anonymous]

WTF

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear OP, the worst part of all this is that instead of pro-actively approaching the ppd issues and the anemia (with psychotherapy therapy, a plan for anti-depressant medication, a fortified diet, a visit to a reputable hematologist - as the thal minor poster posted), you are focusing on EATING YOUR PLACENTA.

given your description of your PPD (worrying you might throw the baby off the balcony), you need to FORTIFY yourself against something worse - like post partum psychosis. i think you need to take your condition very seriously, as PPD has been shown to get worse with subsequent pregnancies. if your OB is truly saying that eating your placenta may "cure" your hormonal issues, you need a new OB.

additionally, you should prepare yourself that you may need another blood transfusion if you bleed excessively during labor (have you been worked up for a bleeding problem? like vwf?). and please, do be very, very grateful for the thousands of people who willingly undergo a painful and unpleasant procedure to ensure that you live another day to care for your children. i am a physician and understand you have fears of blood transfusions, but reactions and inappropriate administration of the wrong blood product are exceedingly rare.

good luck.

OP, I think this is the best advice you have gotten so far. I have not posted on this thread and have found it very interesting because I had never really heard of this practice before. No matter what you decide to do, being more proactive in finding ways to take better care of yourself this time around can't hurt.

[Anonymous]

OP here to 17:42.

What makes you believe I'm looking into eating my placenta INSTEAD of using other approaches? It's kinda scary that a physician has such poor reading comprehension skills. I never said I would dismiss other sources of help if I needed. And last but not least, I never said I felt like hurting my baby. I was afraid of droping her never throwing her that's why I took those extreme precautions. Just a few days after I delivered her our neighbor upstairs fell off the balcony after having a seizure and died. It added up to my anxiety that's why I acted that way. Anyway, I don't get why you're coming from. I got over the PPD with therapy, going to support groups, fixed my supply with supplements and changing my pumping routine and I'm pretty happy with they way I handeled myself.

My doctor is not saying eating my placenta will cure anything. It's only his suggestion to help to diminish or avoid complications that MIGHT arise. Did you completely miss the part where I stated I've done all the screenings doctors suggested, I've been taking all supplements known, did all kinds of diets?

I trully hope you're more attentive to your patients and actually listen to what they say IRL.