Eating placenta (long)

[MrsE]

ETA: Wrong board, sorry.

[Deleted]

I responded over on MMM but I'm totally interested in placenta encapsulation. I am not so crunchy but I've suffered from anxiety my entire adult life and worry about post partum issues. All of the doulas I've looked into offer it so why not?

[alzi]

Nope, can't even think about it. Blargh.

[VillainV]

I have heard that there is absolutely no medical reason TO ingest the placenta, but nor is there any reason NOT to. I mean, it's unlikely to have any benefits whatsoever, but it won't hurt anything either.

I don't plan on doing anything with my placenta.

[sake]

UMMM.... NO. I'm not doing this, even if someone paid me a million real dollars.
And I have a lot of anxiety, and will probably have ppd... there are meds for that. FUCK eating placenta. +o(

[iheartvino]

Yea, I just can't. I'm really grossed out when it comes to bodily fluids, and I would know there was placenta in my smoothie, and I just can't.

[Deleted]

Nope.

[winofairy]

After I give birth to it I will allow the delivery room nurse take it away. I don't want to see it, eat it, keep it, or plant a tree with it.

[wkatie]

I am not planning on doing anything with mine. While it doesn't gross me out if someone else eats it (THEIR OWN, NOT MINE!), it is not at all appealing to me.

[mudslide]

Nov 14, 2012 12:55:50 GMT -5 sake said:

UMMM.... NO. I'm not doing this, even if someone paid me a million real dollars.
And I have a lot of anxiety, and will probably have ppd... there are meds for that. FUCK eating placenta.

:y:

It is absolutely repulsive and disgusting. I side-eye people who do this. Would you eat your liver? Or stomach? Gallbladder? Then why would you eat your placenta. Yuck.

[HoneySpider]

Yeah, there's no way I'm eating that. In any form.

[aegis2005]

Not happening ...

[Deleted]

Nov 14, 2012 17:21:35 GMT -5 mudslide said:

Nov 14, 2012 12:55:50 GMT -5 sake said:

UMMM.... NO. I'm not doing this, even if someone paid me a million real dollars.
And I have a lot of anxiety, and will probably have ppd... there are meds for that. FUCK eating placenta.

It is absolutely repulsive and disgusting. I side-eye people who do this. Would you eat your liver? Or stomach? Gallbladder? Then why would you eat your placenta. Yuck.

Would you throw your liver in the trash then?

[sake]

Nov 14, 2012 18:24:39 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Nov 14, 2012 17:21:35 GMT -5 mudslide said:

It is absolutely repulsive and disgusting. I side-eye people who do this. Would you eat your liver? Or stomach? Gallbladder? Then why would you eat your placenta. Yuck.

Would you throw your liver in the trash then?

With the amount that I drink while not pregnant, I might as well be....

[mudslide]

Nov 14, 2012 18:24:39 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Nov 14, 2012 17:21:35 GMT -5 mudslide said:

It is absolutely repulsive and disgusting. I side-eye people who do this. Would you eat your liver? Or stomach? Gallbladder? Then why would you eat your placenta. Yuck.

Would you throw your liver in the trash then?

Um yeah if it had served its purpose and was no longer needed.

Would you eat your liver??

[imoan]

Fucking granola hippies!

I plan to let my placenta to be thrown into an incinerator with whatever other medical waste the hospital generates that day.

[mudslide]

Nov 14, 2012 22:07:51 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

I'm not a granola hippie! But sitting on a puppy pad to stop from bleeding onto my couch for weeks sounds worse than a smoothie that may taste a bit off.

But it sounds like it basically comes down to personal gross factor. I apparently have a really high threshold.

I hope those of you that are super against it are very careful about the Chinese herbs and shit that you take, if any :-)

If you ingest your placenta you are a granola hippy. Plain and simple.

/gavel

[sake]

what chinese herbs?? what are you talking about? I feel SO lost.

[mudslide]

Nov 14, 2012 22:13:45 GMT -5 sake said:

what chinese herbs?? what are you talking about? I feel SO lost.

Who knows. I think her logic is that ingesting placenta is identical to using herbs in terms of health benefits.

[sake]

No worries, I don't take Chinese herbs, or any herbal supplements. Bc herbal supplements are for hippies. Lol

[mudslide]

There is no level of hippiness beyond eating a placenta.

[joolz]

I didn't eat my placenta last time and didn't have crazy excessive bleeding! It did last for ages though.

I will also not be encapsulating or eating it this time, but if you do I must insist you report back.

[janedoe]

I don't think I could do it, like ever.

[iamgrace]

Nov 14, 2012 23:13:52 GMT -5 mudslide said:

There is no level of hippiness beyond eating a placenta.

it's true. Placenta eating is at the apex of the hippie pyramid.

[Deleted]

I actually think I would eat my liver. I like liver.

[mudslide]

Nov 16, 2012 11:32:23 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

I actually think I would eat my liver. I like liver.

You have got to be kidding.

[Deleted]

Nov 16, 2012 11:52:24 GMT -5 mudslide said:

Nov 16, 2012 11:32:23 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

I actually think I would eat my liver. I like liver.

You have got to be kidding.

I am not kidding about liking liver.

[Deleted]

I bleed shorter times with each subsequent birth without eating my placenta. I also had PPDwith my first & not any others. I also only neede the puppy pad the first day. Not convinced

[mudslide]

Nov 16, 2012 12:39:12 GMT -5 @notquiteblushing said:

Nov 16, 2012 11:52:24 GMT -5 mudslide said:

You have got to be kidding.

I am not kidding about liking liver.

But you wouldn't eat your own liver right? (If it had served its purpose and was going to be discarded)

[mudslide]

Nov 16, 2012 20:03:34 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

Nov 16, 2012 18:19:37 GMT -5 L said:

I bleed shorter times with each subsequent birth without eating my placenta. I also had PPDwith my first & not any others. I also only neede the puppy pad the first day. Not convinced

I know! I'm not either. I doubt any studies will prove anything for sure one way or the other in the next few months, though.

If it CAN help, I'd rather do something kinda gross than suffer with PPD for god knows how long before I get it diagnosed and treated properly. And if it makes recovery shorter/easier.... well, that's a good thing, too.

If it doesn't help, it doesn't seem like it will hurt anything. I will just have done something kinda icky.

Who knows. I may have one smoothie and find it so disgusting I can't continue and it will be moot.

Why not just educate yourself and family about PPD and PPA and then call your dr if you notice signs and get on some meds that will actually do something?