Placenta tincture WWYD

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Now I'm pretty sure I have to injest it just to prove myself to MMM. Maybe put it in my implantation smoothie.

[Marmee]

I'm pretty sure some alcohol could help me through menopause...with or without placenta juice.

[starlily]

It's made with Everclear?! That's not even good alcohol. It's PLACENTA MOONSHINE.

[rugbywife]

The only thing we did with my placenta is take a picture of it so we could send a picture of it to my best guy friend to gross him out. Then we donated it to science.

[rugbywife]

I wonder if when they studied my placenta for science it told them all the bad things I did when pregnant...ohhhh, look at that...that's where she had a Big Mac and chocolate shake for dinner...and there is that half a sip of champagne from that wedding...

[Birdie]

Jul 18, 2014 21:30:30 GMT -5 @peggyolson said:

Jul 18, 2014 21:21:50 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

It is whatever juices came out of my placenta preserved on alcohol in a lite dropper bottle

I like you but throw that away. It's old placenta juice.

[cilantro]

Is this like something one of those livestrong articles suggests doing? I'm dying to see one nonjunk science article about this.

[Birdie]

Jul 19, 2014 11:45:36 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

The only thing we did with my placenta is take a picture of it so we could send a picture of it to my best guy friend to gross him out. Then we donated it to science.

I had no idea you could do this! Did the hospital ask you to do this or did you seek out to do this? I would do this if it as offered to me for #2.

DH saw either my placenta or uterus when they were stitching me up post c/s and I'm pretty sure it scarred him for life.

[Birdie]

Jul 19, 2014 12:51:43 GMT -5 @starry said:

one strange part of having a c section under general is I never even got to know my placenta. I didn't birth it, didn't see it pulled out, etc. Not that I am super sad about it just weird that I never had any contact with mine whatsoever.

If it makes you feel better, I didn't see mine either and I wasn't under general. I was just so drugged out of my mind and they had the big curtain up that I barely remember seeing DS after he was born before my memory goes blank.

[rbp]

Jul 19, 2014 11:45:36 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

The only thing we did with my placenta is take a picture of it so we could send a picture of it to my best guy friend to gross him out. Then we donated it to science.

What does science do with placentas? (Not meaning to be snarky--I honestly have no idea.)

[rugbywife]

rbp and Birdie, I delivered at a teaching/university hospital and someone was doing a study on placentas. So when we donated the cord to science we donated the placenta as well. I imagine someone was just doing their PhD on something related to placentas. I love providing stuff for science.

[timorousbeastie]

Jul 19, 2014 13:05:09 GMT -5 rbp said:

Jul 19, 2014 11:45:36 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

The only thing we did with my placenta is take a picture of it so we could send a picture of it to my best guy friend to gross him out. Then we donated it to science.

What does science do with placentas? (Not meaning to be snarky--I honestly have no idea.)

The research lab I used to work in collaborated with the local NIH perinatology research facility that did a lot of work with placentas. The project I helped out on (it wasn't my main project, since I did mostly prostate cancer, which obviously has nothing to do with placentas) involved determining what genes were up/downregulated in placentas in cases with pre-e and intrauterine growth restriction as compared to normal.

That project was the main reason I didn't care one way or another about seeing my own placenta - I had seen enough at work!

ETA: I think almost every placenta delivered at that hospital (with informed consent, of course) was used for one study or another. I was tempted to deliver there so I could donate, but it's in a completely different hospital system from my doctor.

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The Times just had an article on placenta research a few days ago if anyone is interested:

mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/health/the-push-to-understand-the-placenta.html?_r=0&referrer=

[starlily]

Jul 19, 2014 14:02:27 GMT -5 @starry said:

I don't have much of an interest in placenta pills or whatever but I find it pretty close minded to just say OMG HOW GROSS.

Is it ok to say "OMG HOW GROSS!" based on the Everclear and not the placenta factor?

[ringstrue]

Oh and I'll just say that the placenta is NOT part of your body - it's part of the baby's body. So when you eat the placenta you are eating part of your baby. Ywvm.

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Jul 19, 2014 18:22:32 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Oh and I'll just say that the placenta is NOT part of your body - it's part of the baby's body. So when you eat the placenta you are eating part of your baby. Ywvm.

Better than throwing part of my baby down the garbage disposal?

I'm actually not über crunchy. I had an epidural and exclusively formula fed after 4.5 months, I just have mental health issues and wanted the placenta pills just in case they worked. Maybe they did? My pp hormones were pretty okay.

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Jul 19, 2014 18:37:57 GMT -5 @starry said:

I feel like in another life I would consider placenta encapsulation. As it stands I am too lazy to research it, find someone willing to do, etc.

Are you considering a VBAC? Is that too personal of a question? Just ignore me if so.

[ringstrue]

Jul 19, 2014 18:33:09 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Jul 19, 2014 18:22:32 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

Oh and I'll just say that the placenta is NOT part of your body - it's part of the baby's body. So when you eat the placenta you are eating part of your baby. Ywvm.

Better than throwing part of my baby down the garbage disposal?

I'm actually not über crunchy. I had an epidural and exclusively formula fed after 4.5 months, I just have mental health issues and wanted the placenta pills just in case they worked. Maybe they did? My pp hormones were pretty okay.

I'm just being silly no hard feelings

[DarcyLongfellow]

Someone needs to change their screen name to Placenta Moonshine. Because that is an awesome name.

I was fascinated by my placentas, and I asked my doctors (different one at each birth) if I could see them. Both doctors spent some time showing me the placenta -- I think they were excited to see someone who thought they were cool and not gross.

I briefly thought about placenta encapsulation with DD2, but I live in the opposite of a crunchy area, and I have no idea how I'd even go about doing it. The idea of it freaks me out, but if I had #3, I might be tempted to try it since I have had issues with PPD/PPA.

But I am in the camp that can't really understand what sort of helpful substance is supposed to survive an Everclear bath. That shit would peel paint from walls. Athough, at least it won't spoil!

[Deleted]

I feel comfortable being grossed out by eating human organs. Or pickle juice from human organs. I am fully okay with this judging in my life.