I Regret Eating My Placenta

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.

http://www.placenta-pro.jp/english/concept.html

Or you could just eat some horse placenta.

c, you did a straight up "Well, A then B, and B then C, so it stands to reason that since A then C"

I'm not going to spend all day shaking my head and going back and forth. I get where you're coming from in that anecdotal ideas etc but sheesh watch it on the basic logic problems.

you did a straight up "Well, A then B, and B then C, so it stands to reason that since A then C"

modus pwnens

yah

do herbivores eat their placentas?

please centa, don't birth em

putting the plant back into placenta

I had a dinner table conversation with my parents about this article yesterday (lol) and my mom said she never saw a cow eat one in all of her farm kid years.

but did she eat one?

I had a dinner table conversation with my parents about this article yesterday (lol) and my mom said she never saw a cow eat one in all of her farm kid years.

"Placenta: You Can't Eat Just One!"

I really need to stop reading this thread while eating

eating a placenta, that is! yum!

could get messy

make sure you use a placenta matt for the plate

over the placenta table

I just realized, we could revolutionize competitive eating by introducing a placenta division

Competitive Eating Category: Placentas Dipped Into Jars of Mayonnaise

dayo I misread that as "I really need to stop eating this thread while reading"

I regret eating the "I Regret Eating My Placenta" thread

tbh i feel that 'placenta' is too clinical a name for it, i prefer the vivid imagery supplied by the traditional term, 'afterbirth'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPKigfGYwKE&feature=related

OK I don't even want know know what that's about.

Wonder what you all would make of Lotus Biths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_birth.

While I can understand wanting a natural third stage labor (delivery of the placenta) hanging around with it for a couple days for auric reasons is just level of hogwash I can't get on board with. The whole reason I'm maybe willing to understand why some women would eat the placenta is because there *might* be health benefits. I don't really get the "spiritual" or symbolic placenta-related stuff at all. I remember reading a story a couple years ago about a lady who made her placenta a bag. It had pictures. Will try to locate.

jacob mentioned Lotus births upthread. I felt a little more okay with it than with eating the placenta. though my mind started to wander and I started to think about half-assed lazy people doing lotus and maybe not taking care to not make the placenta get smelly and that could just get really awful really quickly

both options seem kinda, I dunno, fraught with the possiblity of your meaningful amazing experience just being kinda gross and weird.

Air is allowed to circulate around the placenta to dry it, and to avoid its becoming malodorous. Sea salt is often applied to the placenta to help dry it out. Sometimes essential oils, such as lavender, or powdered herbs, such as goldenseal or neem, are also applied to encourage drying, to help to neutralize the smell of decomposition.

this is vile, wtf

what happens if you go the lotus birth route but the umbilical cord never detaches, and then the kid is like seven or eight years old walking around with a dessicated placenta in a fanny pack

severing the umbilicus with your own goddamn teeth seems a lot more 'natural' then leaving your baby connected to decomposing birth meat for days i mean

than*

I was freaked out by reading that you swaddle the baby with the placenta!

pigs in blankets lol

placenta jerky

Wonder what you all would make of Lotus Biths

Haha, I saw this typo and in true Star Wars Nerd fashion thought

http://images.wikia.com/aliens/images/7/77/Bith.jpg

?

I believe that the umbilical cord naturally clamps soon after birth so there's really no need for it to be left attached as far as I can tell. I guess it's meant to be a more gentle to let it detach itself but idk. I just can't imagine sitting around FOR UP TO 12 DAYS with a placenta sitting next to me in a bowl. As mentioned before - they're surprisingly big. I know about this stuff partly because of what I studied but partly because I find it totally fascinating. To each their own obvious and I fully support people making their own decisions about labor and delivery and all that but I don't really get this one. What if you delivered in July and there was a heatwave.

http://i.imgur.com/qvlOk.png

I think I must have skipped the 12 days part

Yeah forget that.

Let's eat.

hahahahahahaha

this is vile, wtf

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:36 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

WTF. It's medical waste.

It is medical waste produced as part of an emotional experience, so it can have some symbolic value, but it's objectively no different than an extracted gall bladder.

It is medical waste produced as part of an emotional experience

women usually end up evacuating their bowels while in labor, might as well hold on to that too

Veg grrl, get off your high horse w/ your being grossed out. That's just too rich from the lady who's leering at me, just waiting for me to have spleen failure so you can plop it on your grill.

"this is my lotus poo"