Mother Ate The Placenta

Specialties Ob/Gyn

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A friend sent this article to me, does this really happen? Has anyone heard of this?? What are your thoughts??

Mother Eats Placenta

http://www.momlogic.com/2009/04/i_ate_the_placenta.php

Specializes in med surg ltc psych.

OK, dad eating his hemorroids just took my cake.

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"I actually just vomited a little in my mouth".

Thanks for sharing.....ugh!!

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"I actually just vomited a little in my mouth".

Thanks for sharing.....ugh!!

ROFL. That CAN'T be anymore gross than the articles. :D

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It's the only "no kill" meat. Perfect for the anemic vegan!

I've known a few people who have taken theirs home to bury it. I know of one mom who has had hers in her freezer for several years because she's never gotten around to burying it. I just hope she doesn't mistake it for a roast and put it out to thaw! :bugeyes:

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If someone wants no kill meat, they can always follow a cow around until it dies from old age.

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Cannibalism!

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Photo: Momlogic.com

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It can be dried, ground up and encapsulated. I have heard that it helps with PPD, also, a bit can be placed under the tongue to help with hemorrhaging.

I don't think I could eat it as a meal. :nono:

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I don't think I could eat it, but I've also heard that it helps with PPH. And I could completely understand why people in places where protein is hard to come by might want to eat it to recuperate their protein/iron stores postpartum. Not a bad idea, really.

Our next placenta, we'll probably plant it in the garden or something. If someone else want to eat theirs, it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, as Thomas Jefferson said. Have at it! I hear it tastes like hamburger.

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I wanted to plant my placenta from my third birth under a tree but my husband was waaay grossed out by saving it. So away it went. I cannot imagine eating it, but I do think it is amazing. I always offer to show it to my patients after delivery and usually they think it's interesting. Maybe they're just being polite.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

My son asked me the other day what happened to his placenta - he's 4. He thinks the whole baby-umbilical cord-placenta connection is a cool one. I do too. :)

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

I will agree that this is a cultural thing.

A cultural practice I'll gladly leave to another culture.

It actually gagged me to see that on the screen...and I have a pretty strong stomach.

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