I Regret Eating My Placenta

what if you combined placenta eating with butt chugging?

if placenta-eating were in any way harmful, there would be no way for it to become widespread in the animal kingdom.

isn't eating one's own poop widespread in the animal kingdom?

i never realised that there was quite so much placenta in a placenta. those people upthread had leftovers, for some reason i always thought placenta was more amuse-bouche quantity

i mean, i thought it'd just be like eating an oyster or something

no no it's a lot of food - "placenta" is actually a Latin contraction of "pluribus" ("from a lot") + "cena" (evening meal)

isn't eating one's own poop widespread in the animal kingdom?

― sarahell, Monday, April 2, 2012 1:35 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i meant "so widespread". most mammals eat the placenta, even those that don't eat meat and even if other food is available. like, so far as i know (and correct me if i'm wrong), cow moms will always do this. poop eating is much less common.

from wikipedia, on the idea of health benefits:

The placenta contains high levels of prostaglandin which stimulates involution (an inward curvature or penetration, or, a shrinking or return to a former size) of the uterus, in effect cleaning the uterus out. The placenta also contains small amounts of oxytocin which eases birth stress and causes the smooth muscles around the mammary cells to contract and eject milk.[citation needed]

yeah placentas are huge

my second child was born at home and the placenta (finally) came out and we put it in a bucket

the midwife asked if i wanted to see it better (while my wife was getting cleaned up) and i was like, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity

we took the bucket upstairs, took out the placenta and spread it out on a plastic shopping bag. the midwife had a little tool that she used to show me all the different parts of it. it has an anatomy all its own!

what i never really realized before then is that the blood supply in there is totally separated from the mother's blood supply; there's like a one-way filtration system in place. so if the mother gets some kind of disaease or something, the baby is relatively safe. it's totally amazing

all that said, i would never eat one in about a million years why because i am not a cannibal thnx

tracer your midwife sounds kind of awesome

aero are you kidding me with the latin

hum, according to the oed in classical latin it is actually a kind of cake

the modern german word is Mutterkuchen

101 placenta facts

Yeah they're surprisingly enormous. Google it if you're not too squeamish. Re Tracer saying he'd never I don't actually get why any fathers would. The only reason I can see wanting to do this is because there might be some health benefits and that would only be for the mother. If I was a guy and wanted to show some solidarity or something I'd, i don't know, give the damn thing a hug or something but I don't think I'd have any interest in eating it at all.

have you hugged a placenta today?

Call me crazy but I find a pretty great way to honor the transition from pregnancy to parenthood is recognizing THE HUMAN BEING YOU CREATED.

Oh and not eating it

"healthy boy delivered this morning at 4:32am!! 6 1/2 lbs. he was delicious"

I get the oxytocin element to this but your brain produces oxytocin when you bond with anyone, right ? I mean I really have no memory of eating my moms placenta let alone my dad's, my brothers and sisters, my husband's, my own children's, any of my friend's, my 3 cats and Great Dane's, the silver Jews natural bridge placenta,nor the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful's placentas although lord knows those peeps know how to breed

lol this is where the discussion gets weird to me bcz ppl are like "how could people eat PLACENTA ooh gross! they should eat totally inedible garbage instead"

TBF, I don't think eating placenta is necessarily gross. I'm sure if Rick Bayless or someone seasoned it properly and put it in a taco, I'd devour it right up. I just wouldn't expect anything magical to happen.

I like to tell people that "placenta" was originally pronounced "play center" and that mothers used to put newborns inside of it to hide them from predators.

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/21/21195/NIB-Mcdonalds_Playcenter-R_jpg_635x345_crop-smart_upscale_q85.jpg

I tell people that it comes from the same root as the word "pita" and "pizza" and was originally served on flatbread as the main dish in a hearty southern european mid-day meal

rihanna with her new hit song, birthday placenta

placenta centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa centa

"under my um-bi-LIC-al"

I like to tell people that "placenta" was originally pronounced "play center" and that mothers used to put newborns inside of it to hide them from predators.
+Chris Hanson and a plate of homemade cookies just to be extra safe

I insist on calling my birthday my "placentennial" and every year I demand that I be bathed in blood, it's a source of considerable tension within my family

contenderizer not getting science at all, probably not worth contenderizing with him on it.

also, tracer's midwife was awesome as hell

Turns out there is a childbirth class on my floor at work today. Would love to walk in and pretend to be the instructor there to talk about placentophagy just to see the reactions it would get.

throw out the baby, raise the placenta

walk in eating a panini full of suspiciously dark red meaty filling

"i love it when they're still warm"

i regret making that post

The placenta is really amazing though, like how awesome is evolution that every mammal is born with a giant Hot Pocket?

fruity placental croutons

can we go back to this phrase for a second:

So why did I gobble placenta

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj7P95oTiAk

don't watch this video about placenta pâté, y'all. don't do it.

so not watching that

I think burying the placenta underneath a fruit is a reasonable way to honor/dispose/digest what the placenta symbolizes for us. I don't think I'll ever have the stomach to eat it and I have a stomach for organ meats, but I guess I'm not that crunchy.

I bet it would make your veggies grow AMAZING

http://blindgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/baby-plant-2-anne-geddes.jpg

so that's Geddes' secret!

Seems like the best way to gain any health benefits from a placenta would be to eat it raw and fresh. Cooking, drying it out...does't seem as potent. Placentas can carry a lot of information regarding problems in birth and delivery and future problems with the child. Apparently autism can possibly be detected in the placenta. To do this htugh costs money and having a hospital cooperate with Yale University's guidelines and then you have to pay Yale to study it.

contenderizer not getting science at all, probably not worth contenderizing with him on it.

lol, nice dodge

big caveat that i'd add to what i said before is that, while it's probably reasonable to suppose that the animals that regularly eat the placenta are not harmed and might even benefit from doing so, there's no way to know whether & to what extent human beings fall into that category

not pretending to be doing any scientific research here, merely speculating logically based on what we do know

has anyone established calorie counts and serving sizes for placenta?

idea for american pie 8:
- girl gets pregnant
- girl gives birth
- placenta gets baked in a pie
- guy has sex with placenta pie
- omg hilarity ensues

btw the guy is girl's brother.

Make sure you vaccinate your placenta before eating it.