Heath? Don't cut the cord!

[eddy]

What ever happened to having normal hobbies like reading books? Now everyone has to be edgy these days and flip their placenta to prevent rotting.

[papie]

Apr 11, 2013 9:50:43 GMT -5 eddy said:

What ever happened to having normal hobbies like reading books? Now everyone has to be edgy these days and flip their placenta to prevent rotting.

It is unnatural

[poppyseed]

OMG. How is this "natural"? Even animals chew through the cord to detach their babies.

[lilybug]

A friend of mine did this. I am on the crunchier side and I still couldn't bring myself to go visit until she proudly announced that the placenta had detached and her son was "finally born."

Preeety sure he was born when he exited the vagina, but to each their own, I guess.

[daisybuchannan]

Ack! I want to vomit!

[MWOS]

Apr 11, 2013 9:58:18 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Ack! I want to vomit!

Save it in a bowl for 10 days!

[daisybuchannan]

Apr 11, 2013 9:25:45 GMT -5 ninjabridemom said:

Apr 11, 2013 9:24:07 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Seeing the placenta was cool.

It was so cool!!!  My doctor and the med students took a long time to look at it, too, because it had formed 2 lobes so each boy essentially got his own (thorough analysis confirmed they shared a single placenta, it hadn't fused).  It was neat to see the sacs with the cords, too.

Biology is awesome. Carrying biology around in a bowl is gross.

I had a pretty traumatic delivery (baby not crying, cord around neck, rushed to nicu) and the dr thought it would be a good idea to show me the placenta because apparently it was rather large. And, she says his cord was two times as thick than they normally are.

Not interested right now doc!

[cheeseandcrackers]

Have you guys heard about eating the placenta?
You can make it into a pill form and apparently it can help with postpartum depression

[daisybuchannan]

Apr 11, 2013 9:59:31 GMT -5 MWOS said:

Apr 11, 2013 9:58:18 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

Ack! I want to vomit!

Save it in a bowl for 10 days!

It's only natural.

[eddy]

I asked to see my placenta with Leo. We had a lot of issues with that damn thing and I wanted to take a look at it. So when they were sewing me up they brought it over so I cold see the exposed vessels that had caused the c section at 36 weeks.

It was neat. I didn't want to carry it around with me mind you.

[lilybug]

Apr 11, 2013 10:05:22 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

Apr 11, 2013 9:55:21 GMT -5 lilybug said:

A friend of mine did this. I am on the crunchier side and I still couldn't bring myself to go visit until she proudly announced that the placenta had detached and her son was "finally born."

Preeety sure he was born when he exited the vagina, but to each their own, I guess.

So... when do they celebrate his birthday? When he exited the vag, or when he was "finally born"? What was he considered to be during that period of time? Unborn? 

lmao. I have no idea. He's only a few months old. Hopefully they celebrate the day he exited the vag, otherwise I might have to protest the party on principle.

[mudslide]

I've read that doing this puts the poor baby at risk for infection.

[joyfull]

That sounds disgusting.

[candreco]

I saw this earlier this morning, and just no. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Just beyond the basic grossness and unnatural-ness (you don't see animals dragging a placenta around behind them) of it, a newborn is hard enough. WHY would anyone also want to be caring for the freaking placenta (wrapped in a nice cloth!) too?

[mamasaurus]

This is so rare that even my uber-crunchy doula had never done one and wasn't 100% sure she knew what it was. It's like the mythical "LOOK AT MY BREASTS!!!" nursers. They're out there, somewhere, but pretty hard to find.

[lilybug]

Apr 11, 2013 11:13:39 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

This is so rare that even my uber-crunchy doula had never done one and wasn't 100% sure she knew what it was. It's like the mythical "LOOK AT MY BREASTS!!!" nursers. They're out there, somewhere, but pretty hard to find.

They have all congregated in my neighborhood. I would not be surprised at all to see a mom carrying the placenta bowl around at our playground. I see topless / bare breast nursing at least weekly.

[mamasaurus]

Apr 11, 2013 11:18:15 GMT -5 lilybug said:

Apr 11, 2013 11:13:39 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

This is so rare that even my uber-crunchy doula had never done one and wasn't 100% sure she knew what it was. It's like the mythical "LOOK AT MY BREASTS!!!" nursers. They're out there, somewhere, but pretty hard to find.

They have all congregated in my neighborhood. I would not be surprised at all to see a mom carrying the placenta bowl around at our playground. I see topless / bare breast nursing at least weekly.

But are they FORCING YOU TO LOOK AT THEIR BREASTS?!?

[lilybug]

Apr 11, 2013 11:20:43 GMT -5 mamasaurus said:

Apr 11, 2013 11:18:15 GMT -5 lilybug said:

They have all congregated in my neighborhood. I would not be surprised at all to see a mom carrying the placenta bowl around at our playground. I see topless / bare breast nursing at least weekly.

But are they FORCING YOU TO LOOK AT THEIR BREASTS?!?

Nope No one cares. We chose this neighborhood for a reason!

[Deleted]

I didn't care to see my placenta. My midwife was all "look!!! Do you want to see it??? What are your plans for 'it'??"

Lol, my h was pretty freaked out when she wrapped the cord around her wrist and gave it a slight tug and plop! Out came the placenta.

[litebright]

I don't see how this is not a health risk. No way would I want my baby attached to a dead and rotting ex-internal organ for up to 10 days. (Oh, and LOL at her that mothers aren't supposed to even run errands for four weeks after birth, so you don't have to worry about carting the placenta around in public.)

Even animals don't do this shit. They bite through the cord, they don't have their babies drag around a placenta for a week.

I thought my placenta was pretty cool to see, but OMG, this is giving me the shudders.

[ering1115]

I have never been happier that my placenta was carted away for medical research since it was so effed up. I will chalk this up to another thing I did wrong for DS to mention to his future therapist.

[Deleted]

Apr 11, 2013 9:30:21 GMT -5 ECB said:

So, keeping your placenta and either burying it or eating isn't enough anymore. Now you need to keep it attached and carry around. Got it.

Placenta handbags! 

[ralphlauren]

fucking gross

[nursewife]

That's just..... Not right. Sounds like a great way to make your baby septic though! The first few weeks are hard enough. Way make it harder by dragging around a rotting, smelly piece of flesh. Plus, do you photoshop it out of cute baby photos? I see so much wrong in this.

[Deleted]

Welp, I just googled.

[Deleted]

[Deleted]

Apr 11, 2013 9:47:07 GMT -5 lolly said:

Oh my. I didn't even see mine (and I had 2) and I'm OK with that.

I can't imagine the look on H's face if I said, "Here honey, hold the baby. And this beautiful crystal bowl with my innards."

anyone got a wet wipe??  i just spit my juice on my screen after that comment.  

I had no interest in carrying anything else around other than a baby thanks.