I Regret Eating My Placenta

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

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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"

Yeah, OK. You don't have to be jerks about it! For all we know some ppl around here might have done it. Maybe there is a really good reason to beyond the symbolic and I just haven't found it yet. idk.

;_: I just wanted to make a "lotus poo" joke

they are free to chime in, then, and we will gladly apologize

imagine if the Santorum family had done this and were carting around their stillborn child and the attached placenta

okay too far

I didn't mean you! It was actually several x-posts. Sorry!

Oh! I wasn't WTF-ing at you, ENBB! I was generally crying out to the general afterbirth-munchers of the world.

I say that, btw, because I'm pretty sure that might be one in particular. Also MH, seriously.

Je55e you have called me out, tis true. I am 100% hypocrite when it comes to spleen vs placenta.

well, it's a valid possibility, combining the people who want to respect the life of a baby that didn't make it and those who feel the placenta stays attached or whatever

lol Jesse I've been saying throught this thread that, while definitely unusal, I don't think it's the craziest thing in the world and that I'd probably at least research the possibily of doing it when/if I ever have kids.

leeeet's move on, mh

don't trust anything I say, I was a formula baby

it's taking me a while to get down with the idea, I've not really been that exposed to this kinda stuff so my reactions ITT have pretty much been my brain being all O_O people do WHATNOW

However, proponents of lotus births view the baby and the placenta as existing within the same auric field

yeah uh idk if this is wiki nonsense but i detect a whiff of total bullshit

oh sorry, that's just the rotting placenta

elmo, namaste

what is an auric field

somehow I don't think it's a big sphere of gold

x-post lol u jerk

(I was a formula baby (and have the chronically fucked up ears to prove it!) too)

obviously instead of the mother holding on to the soul that was in the placenta by eating it, they are giving the soul time to naturally transfer to the baby

it makes perfect logical sense, just ask contenderizer

Wait you mean that it's a fake wiki article? No. It's definitely a thing.

http://www.lotusbirthcampaign.org/

http://www.achildbirth.com/lotus-birth.html

I really wish I could find the pictures where the lady documented it with her placenta bag and stuff. Dammit.

tbh nothing is going to top the placenta teddy bear posted upthread

no no, i mean i'm not relying on a wiki article to speak for all proponents of lotus birthing, who knows who wrote that sentence

placenta bear

afterbear