once you placenta you can't stop
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Honest to god craving 7-layer dip due to that post xp
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Or perhaps a Doritos taco from Taco Bell.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
see now there's a way to eat placenta
7-layer dip! now we're talking
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
J, if there were studies showing it were harmful then I'd agree with you. I am generally all for evidence-based health practices and outright reject things without hard science behind them. However, I think there's a high probability that the lack of studies on the topic are related to the poor way in which women's health related issues have been handled and been given the shaft historically (nevermind non-traditional women's health practices) and that's not OK. For that reason alone, and until there is scientific evidence to the contrary, I'm willing to support a woman's choice to chow down on as much of her homemade placenta as she damn well pleases without condeming that choice.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
lol I don't know about in the woods but there's definitely a whole unassisted childbirth movement which, yes, is a wholle other topic and something I don't understand either.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
this lotus thing seems bad in that banking stem cells from the umbilical cord is known to be a good thing and you lose that possibility, other than that, feel free to run around with whatever stuff attached to you that you want
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
But I'm not going to come over and see the baby until that thing detaches and you air out the house.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
"homemade placenta" somehow manages to be the most sinister phrase on this thread
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
I would imagine etsy has something to say about that
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer takeout placenta tbqh
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
BTW, my mom's first comment when I explained this article and that it involved placenta dried and ground up and put in capsules was, "That sounds expensive!"
otm, mom. otm.
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and just so it's clear and nobody assumes I think otherwise, people who don't vaccinate their kids make me irrationally angry. I don't even read that thread anymore because I can't handle it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw, I am pro-breastfeeding, think circumcision is unnecessary in the western world unless for a legitimate medical need or religious prescription but not all that harmful, and there are too many unnecessary c-sections
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Well you are correct in all those beliefs. Imo, of course.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think any of those things are really that controversial anymore though I guess most Americans still choose to circumsize boy babies? Be interesting to know what rates for that are now, actually.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw I wouldn't criticize anyone for doing the opposite on any of those, though. there are just some issues where both sides fall well within norms. people do get up in arms about all of these!`
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't criticize anyone for doing the opposite of them either in most situations.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
I was kind of taken aback last year when I visited my friends in the hospital with their newborn and they said something to the effect of "Yeah, I kind of wish they'd advised me to walk around a while or squat more before advising me to get a c-section, in retrospect, but on the other hand he's a really big baby"
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah well, sounds pretty typical tbh.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
and at six months, he's 20 pounds and 28" long
hell of a placenta
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
guys i totally understand on some level that birth is a huge spiritual event and there is a deep inherited human response to that, and to treat the birth and afterbirth as magical events. plus there's blood! blood magic is strong magic. from that level placentaphagy and lotus birthing are comprehensible -- as is the recent practice of banking umbilical blood for its magical medical properties. precious, precious is the blood!
but otoh! there is also a v understandable human sense of uneasiness with all that blood and flesh and gore and a weird sense of taboo around. i personally look on the miracle of childbirth as a crazy horrorshow and that definitely informs my response to the stuff ppl are doing with placentae. thank god midwives exist and are happy to aid and revel in its visceral mysteries, because i could. not. handle it.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm about to be in the middle of this, because I am assisting the midwife in delivering our baby, which at first seemed crazy to be because I have no training or knowledge of childbirth at all. But the midwife assured us that in the event of something going wrong or something that I can't handle that she and her assistant will be their the handle anything and a hospital is 5 minutes away. We were told the baby will be coming in probably 10 days so I'll see just how strong I am to help bring the baby into the whole. Weirdly enough, I'm not freaked out or nervous at all. I do understand why people see the placenta as being more than merely afterbirth, I do, but most important to me is our baby. I just don't want to dispose of the placenta in a trash can and treat it as if it's waste. I'd rather be a little symbolic about it and have something else be born from it, like a tree.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
I can totally see that, sounds pretty cool.
Is it even legal to throw in a garbage can, or does it count as medical material and have to be taken somewhere?
― mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I like the idea of a tree. Rose bush would be good, they go NUTSO with a bit of good compost.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
If i get pregnant I'm going to throw my placenta on the ice after a Blackhawks game.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure anyone would notice tbh
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I would so buy a ticket for that
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I regret eating your placenta.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Toews would dive for it and gobble it up. Or put it in the Stanley Cup for later.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Lotus birth is fine by me if you carry the placenta around in the Stanley Cup.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
lol
or drive it around with you in a Lotus
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
God hates placentaphags!
― nickn, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Winner.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
don't get stuck holding the placentabag
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
btw guys wharton's jelly sounds delicious... placenta butter and wharton's jelly sandwich... mmm
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
In case anyone wants to check out some stories/pics. They're definitely interesting.
http://www.naturalfamilyco.com/graphics/LotusBirthGallery.pdfhttp://eleanorsuc.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/her-lotus-birth.html
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't circumsize anyone for doing the opposite of them either in most situations.― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:55 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was what i read
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Animals also eat the placenta because leaving a big plop of raw meat lying around is a great way to attract predators when you have vulnerable newborns. Unless there's a pack of dingoes in your maternity ward, this does not really apply to humans.
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
there could be foodies around who are after some raw food
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
just dipping into this surprisingly long-lasting thread i can only say that Jeff is otm
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
if you're hungry, eat it, i say. there are people dying of starvation in africa and you guys are throwing out your placentas as if it's medical waste. shame on you
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
do they know it's christmas?
maybe if you dry it out and wrap it up in cheesecloth you can stealth it in as christmas pudding the following year
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
The lotus birth thing seems so complicated and high maintenance.
― *tera, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
making sure it doesn't stink is pretty much your main priority for the next, what, twelve days?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't read this thread at all, but several CHILXors (me, n/a, J5ss5, and courtnoodle) won a pub quiz tonight with this thread title as our team name.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
!!!!!
hooray!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
It has brought fortune to us all.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
waht is a courtnoodle
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link