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Eating Placenta? WTF? (LIP)

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  • JJsMom211JJsMom211

    It's common among many cultures to eat the placenta. I don't think it's strange.

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  • HyfagalHyfagal member
    To be totally honest I'd take it capsulized but I won't eat it like a steak. After the PPD I experienced I'd try any experimental medical, religious, or voodoo remedies.
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  • starsmaycollidestarsmaycollide

    Well that wasn't the best worded post, but I think she is referring to placental encapsulation.

    (They ground into capsules, the the moms takes them like vitamins. People claim it can help prevent PPD.)

      https://placentabenefits.info/

    Definitely not my thing, but I know someone who did it.

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  • MomlovesEloiseMomlovesEloise member
    It's NMS, but there has been a growing number of women that are doing this. It's supposed to have a lot of medical benefits. Most mammals eat their placentas because of this. 
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  • AmandaS1017AmandaS1017

    It's common in other cultures, but not for me. lol

    On a side note, I delivered at a birth center and when my midwife did our home viist a couple days after I had Aiden, she brought my placenta with her and put it in my freezer. It's still in there, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. lol 

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  • lilbit923lilbit923 member

    imageMomlovesEloise:
    It's NMS, but there has been a growing number of women that are doing this. It's supposed to have a lot of medical benefits. Most mammals eat their placentas because of this. 

    I've heard of the benefits too but it does not sound appealing to me at all.

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  • adoubleu12adoubleu12 member
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....
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  • HyfagalHyfagal member
    imageteenagefbi:

    I read a book yesterday by this lady who left her life in NYC and started a farm. Anyway, after the cow gave birth, it ate the placenta. I had no idea cows do that kind of thing.

    Honestly? I'd ingest mine, no problem.

    Most mammals do.
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  • MarSamWhitneyMarSamWhitney member
    imageAmandaS1017:

    It's common in other cultures, but not for me. lol

    On a side note, I delivered at a birth center and when my midwife did our home viist a couple days after I had Aiden, she brought my placenta with her and put it in my freezer. It's still in there, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. lol 

    lol, I would probably freak out seeing that in my freezer, but I gross out easy. NMS.



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  • laurapalmerlaurapalmer

    imageHyfagal:
    To be totally honest I'd take it capsulized but I won't eat it like a steak. After the PPD I experienced I'd try any experimental medical, religious, or voodoo remedies.

    This. I don't think there's anything weird about the capsules.  

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  • lilbit923lilbit923 member

    imageAllisonb17:
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....

     I've heard of that. Yeah um, that's freaky.

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  • AshasaurusRexAshasaurusRex member

    imageAllisonb17:
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....

    Placenta Teddy rocks.

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  • HyfagalHyfagal member
    imageteenagefbi:
    imageHyfagal:
    imageteenagefbi:

    I read a book yesterday by this lady who left her life in NYC and started a farm. Anyway, after the cow gave birth, it ate the placenta. I had no idea cows do that kind of thing.

    Honestly? I'd ingest mine, no problem.

    Most mammals do.

    I never really thought about it, mainly because I'm a moron.

    Well we're both mammals so this shouldn't be weird. Can I spoon feed you your placenta post birth while you relax in the family bed with your H and children? I've felt a strong bond with you since you c-sectioned Ellie out of my womb.
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  • lilbit923lilbit923 member
    imageAshasaurusRex:

    imageAllisonb17:
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....

    Placenta Teddy rocks.

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    Ick!

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  • JJsMom211JJsMom211

    With the background that I grew up in, it's sort of like a ceremonial thing. My aunt had all of my cousins (3) at home. My uncle would cook the placenta on the stove and then he and my aunt would eat it together. My mom and dad didnt' do this, but it's common in my extended family.

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  • adoubleu12adoubleu12 member
    imageAshasaurusRex:

    imageAllisonb17:
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....

    Placenta Teddy rocks.

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    It would be a great conversation piece.

    "Oh how cute, what is this?"

    "My Placenta."

    "OMGWTF!" 

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  • HyfagalHyfagal member
    imageJJsMom211:

    With the background that I grew up in, it's sort of like a ceremonial thing. My aunt had all of my cousins (3) at home. My uncle would cook the placenta on the stove and then he and my aunt would eat it together. My mom and dad didnt' do this, but it's common in my extended family.

    Is it weird that it would gross me out to have H eat my placenta?
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  • AmandaS1017AmandaS1017
    imageMarSamWhitney:
    imageAmandaS1017:

    It's common in other cultures, but not for me. lol

    On a side note, I delivered at a birth center and when my midwife did our home viist a couple days after I had Aiden, she brought my placenta with her and put it in my freezer. It's still in there, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. lol 

    lol, I would probably freak out seeing that in my freezer, but I gross out easy. NMS.

    It's all wrapped up in multiple ziploc bags so you can't really see it, but it totally freaked my mom out when she saw it lol

    Maybe we will bury it and plant a tree over it or something. I don't think we can just throw it in the trash.  

     

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  • JJsMom211JJsMom211
    imageHyfagal:
    imageJJsMom211:

    With the background that I grew up in, it's sort of like a ceremonial thing. My aunt had all of my cousins (3) at home. My uncle would cook the placenta on the stove and then he and my aunt would eat it together. My mom and dad didnt' do this, but it's common in my extended family.

    Is it weird that it would gross me out to have H eat my placenta?

    I don't think it's weird that you feel that way.

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  • Doodle2011Doodle2011
    imageAshasaurusRex:

    imageAllisonb17:
    I have heard of people getting it made into a keepsake teddy bear and keeping it in a glass case in their living room.  Now THAT is gross....

    Placenta Teddy rocks.

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    dammit you just got me in trouble for loudly cackling at work.  lofl
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  • nykimacnykimac
    My husband (with the help of my doula) went through the encapsulation process up until the capsule part and then we abandoned the idea. I would have had no issue taking them, it just seemed like one more thing to do and we didn't have the energy for it. I definitely wouldn't drink it in a shake or eat it like a steak but I don't judge people who do.  
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