I Regret Eating My Placenta

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

Ah, right. I defintely dind't mean to do that if it seemed like I had.

I think elmo is incredulous that people are referring to auras and stuff as a reason to do this and that someone perhaps added that to the wiki article as a joke

I'm usually pretty pro-cuddlestein ILX, but if you're going to eat your baby's placenta, you're going to face some derision from your friends on the internet. That's just the way things go.

If you are going to carry the placenta around with you until it rots off your baby, step up so I can deride you directly for your choices.

lol 'afterbear' hahaha

<3 carl

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.

― mh, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6:38 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've read through everything i posted itt, and this is just horseshit, no offense. my logic was all A-dependent (A being that most mammals eat the placenta). to the extent that anything was B-dependent, i wasn't making any kind of insistent A-then-C connection. if there's a point you want to argue, do so. insults and nonspecific claims of logical fallacy are no argument at all.

or you could both just let it go, I have no idea what you're even talking about anymore jeez guys

xp yeah it's the aura thing specifically, auras are a nice thing to think about and contemplate but when you get into the pseudoscience of 'auric energy transfers' via the umbilicus it just seems so warped and delusional

What I was thinking when I wrote what I did was:

- There may be special nutritional or medicinal value to be gained from human placentaphagy but there is no proof of it
- Some people value the placenta's symbolism b/c it is part of an emotional experience, so they eat it, and that is UNUSUAL (i.e. "WTF") BUT FINE
- But to claim health benefits when science doesn't support such claims = woo

xp - lol, OTM x2

I'm usually pretty pro-cuddlestein ILX, but if you're going to eat your baby's placenta, you're going to face some derision from your friends on the internet. That's just the way things go.

If you are going to carry the placenta around with you until it rots off your baby, step up so I can deride you directly for your choices.

Awesome to find out that this is the thing that turns people into straight up assholes on ILX. Who knew?

Someone pissed in their placentas..?

I knew, but then again, I would have known.

I think this has been a notably gentle thread for involving some pretty oddball behaviors bolstered by specious reasoning.

I'd also deride those who buy into auric energy transfers, while we're deriding things.

or you could both just let it go, I have no idea what you're even talking about anymore jeez guys

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:54 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mh has been sniping at me for a while itt. i was nice abt it for a while, but now i'm starting to get pissed off. grumble grouse mutter...

you guys should sit down, break placenta, and talk it out