Eating placenta (long)

[janedoe]

You might lose the food you ate that day after you drink the pink placenta punch!

[underwaterrhymes]

I've been waiting to weigh in here because I wanted to think about it.

I would totally consider placenta pills if it meant I could avoid PPD, but the rest of it sounds awful to me. I don't even like bananas in my smoothies.

[Deleted]

Yeah I would do outside research other than your doulas anecdotes.

I mean, I didn't eat my placenta and I bled two weeks. Anecdote ftw!

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Nov 16, 2012 20:19:25 GMT -5 mudslide said:

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

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)

Like I said if I'm hiring a doula and she does it as part of her service, popping a pill made from my own internal organ doesn't seem any stranger to me than popping a pill made in a lab. So yes, if eating liver encapsulated pills help me from going crazy I may consider it. But I already pop pills and have a shrink I see once a month and a therapist I see once a week so I'm still on Team Science. I guess it seems weird but if it helps (and nothing I read implies that it hurts) then why not?

[mudslide]

I get what you're saying, moxie. But there is no evidence that it helps. It's all anecdotal. You are banking on that it will help/cure/prevent ppd/PPA.

I'm kind of passionate about this because there is no way to know what and how much hormones you are ingesting. I've read a few places where women talk about how ingesting placenta actually gave them crazy side effects. That's what's scary to me. You are a brand new mother with hormones going crazy and you're going to blindly ingest something that has no measurable values of anything and might actually cause you more problems.

I'm saying this all as someone who is 99% sure she will end up with ppd and PPA due to current depression and anxiety. I just cannot wrap my head around blindly following anecdotes. This is all coming from a place of concern and I'm sorry if I've offended you at all.

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Didn't offend me at all, mud. I'll ask my shrink what she thinks next time I see her. She's always sending me articles about stuff we talk about.

[mudslide]

I'm glad you're going to talk to your doctor. That makes me feel better.