Placenta Eating (DO NOT MOD)

maletac

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/some-mothers-see-health-benefits-in-eating-their-placenta-after-giving-birth/2012/04/02/gIQAVfgLrS_story.html

Doula Tabare Depaep is a placenta lady. She works out of her Annapolis kitchen, and said a placenta feels “like a big rump roast.” She doesn’t find it any worse than handling meat. (Depaep is a vegetarian.) “I actually feel warmer toward the placenta because it grew a baby,” she said.

If all this sounds a bit too cannibalistic, there are “placenta encapsulation specialists,” often midwives or doulas, who transform the placenta from its messy postpartum condition into neat, sometimes even flavored, pills. “Mad Men” actress January Jones told People magazine that she began taking placenta pills after giving birth last fall and credits them with helping her to bounce back quickly. “It’s not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms,” she told the magazine. “Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It’s something I was very hesitant about,” but she ended up taking the pills daily

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personal opinion?

would you do it?

how did this become a craze?

Sweet_T_McGee_HeatherSadie

We are just like any animal just with a higher IQ, But its natural to eat the placenta among humans and other animal! It's full of good things and can help with PPD! If they did not need to take my daughters for testing because of her IUGR i would of took it and had it turned in to supplements. In todays society it's looked at as taboo. . . among other natural things likes breast feeding. . .

Sweet_T_McGee_HeatherSadie

and its not a craze, its what people have been doing since the dawn of time!!!! silly

misskerouac

I would do it if it was put into capsules for me, but just eating it... no. couldn't do it.

kanonxbou47

We are just like any animal just with a higher IQ, But its natural to eat the placenta among humans and other animal! It's full of good things and can help with PPD! If they did not need to take my daughters for testing because of her IUGR i would of took it and had it turned in to supplements. In todays society it's looked at as taboo. . . among other natural things likes breast feeding. . .

Huh, comparing it to breast feeding totally put a new perspective on that for me.
Thanks!

Lainn

I know all the benefits to it and that women have been doing it since the dawn of time.....but personally I could not bring myself to eat it. Nope nope nope. However I have known a few (I mean few) women who have and I do not shudder or cringe at their decision. My hubby and I have debated if we should use it to plant a tree, but we kinda forgot last baby during labor to ask. Oh well. Maybe this time.

maletac

We are just like any animal just with a higher IQ, But its natural to eat the placenta among humans and other animal! It's full of good things and can help with PPD! If they did not need to take my daughters for testing because of her IUGR i would of took it and had it turned in to supplements. In todays society it's looked at as taboo. . . among other natural things likes breast feeding. . .

breast feeding is not taboo :O its encouraged specially since it reduces chances of breats cancer

Sweet_T_McGee_HeatherSadie

I'm breast feeding. . . But when you breast feed in public people stare and stare and make comments like its wrong. . . I don't think its taboo. I'm just trying to say that most people (that dont have kids, or have kids and never Breast feed, or men) find it odd that a woman pulls out her boob to feed her child in public. At least thats how it is in chicago. . .

kunibob

To each their own, and yeah, it may be natural and all that, but I could never do it. I have a hard enough time eating meat that comes from an animal, let alone stuff that I grew inside of me.

maletac

I'm breast feeding. . . But when you breast feed in public people stare and stare and make comments like its wrong. . . I don't think its taboo. I'm just trying to say that most people (that dont have kids, or have kids and never Breast feed, or men) find it odd that a woman pulls out her boob to feed her child in public. At least thats how it is in chicago. . .

yeah breast feeding in public in america is taboo yes.... but that doesnt mean medically its discouraged

maletac

To each their own, and yeah, it may be natural and all that, but I could never do it. I have a hard enough time eating meat that comes from an animal, let alone stuff that I grew inside of me.

that was my thought... people have said there is benifits to drinking your own pee....... im just thinking this isnt popular around the world... this is a USA thing for now...

Sweet_T_McGee_HeatherSadie

No no I was not saying it was! I was viewing eating the placenta and breast feeding (which I am all for) even tho this is more about eating the placenta, as taboo to the public and those that do not know the medical aspect of it.

Jeff92se

Is there a BBQ flavor?

Natihilator

with a fork and a knife? no freaking way.

Deyhydrated and ground up and put into a pill capsule? Sure, why not!

bcampbell54

Pill = Processed. BAD!

Let me share some of my delicious recipes with you all instead.
Perhaps with fava beans, washed down with a nice Chianti...

PanzaDiaries

I actually do placenta preparation and encapsulation. It's becoming more and more common among health conscious women. I actually had seven in the month of March, a record for the year I've been doing it. I admit it took me a while to get used to the idea but once I saw the benefits first hand I knew it wasn't just a placebo effect. I have a lab background so handeling it wasn't too much of stretch for me. It's not for everyone, I've never had a client complain about having it done but I've had plenty who regretted NOT having it done.

51powerski

Sounds minging. Thanks for introducing this concept to me first thing in the morning OP. :frown:

Kenzietea2

As nutritionally beneficial as it may be, I will not be participating. I just couldn't handle eating my own organ. It grosses me out.

I have all intentions of breastfeeding though, and those who think it is bizarre or inappropriate to do in public are wacko. Breasts were made for feeding babies.

TrishJimenez

my oldest is going to b 17 this summer and 17 years ago it was even more looked down on then it is now when I was pregnant with her in 1994 you could ask 10 pregnant women if they were going to breastfeed and they all said no. And I knew a few that tried but were unsuccessful due to the lack of support. I was lucky in that my mom breastfed my sisters and myself and I lived close to her when I had my first child and I went on to breastfeed all 3 of my children for a year. I fed all my children in any place that they were hungry (except for at church, they had a special room in the back for mothers it was nice) even at the table in IHOP while eating with a fork in the other hand lol. And walking thru the grocery store or the mall while shopping. And even remember being pulled over on the side of the road on a long trip to feed a child in the car and having the police stop and ask if everything was ok, to just tell them that we needed to feed the baby lol. I never felt uncomfortable or noticed anyone staring though I admit it embarrassed her father at first. He got used to it ;-) I will admit that it would be very difficult for me to be working while breastfeeding as using the pumps was too complicated. I think that is another reason why so many mothers these days dont breastfeed. We are all breadwinners and bringing home the bacon. We dont have time to feed the baby twice which is what you have to do when you pump your milk at an earlier time and then feed it to the baby later. Formula is so much more simple. That is one of the reasons why I dont have another baby now even though my husband has no children of their own. We could not afford for me to stay home the first year and breastfeed the baby.

samthomason

I actually really wanted to do placenta encapsulation when I gave birth to my son, mainly to prevent post pardum depression but my hospital would not allow it. Next time, it will definitely be something I clear with my hospital or birthing center, b/c I really think it would help, but I am more into natural and holistic ideas.

LesIsMoreXX

Couldn't do it. Terrible fetus phobia. Nightmares...
So many nights I'd wake up screaming!

micls

What vitamins/nutrients are in it that we can't get elsewhere?

maletac

I actually do placenta preparation and encapsulation. It's becoming more and more common among health conscious women. I actually had seven in the month of March, a record for the year I've been doing it. I admit it took me a while to get used to the idea but once I saw the benefits first hand I knew it wasn't just a placebo effect. I have a lab background so handeling it wasn't too much of stretch for me. It's not for everyone, I've never had a client complain about having it done but I've had plenty who regretted NOT having it done.

saw the benefits firts hand? go on ?

Kenzietea2

I actually do placenta preparation and encapsulation. It's becoming more and more common among health conscious women. I actually had seven in the month of March, a record for the year I've been doing it. I admit it took me a while to get used to the idea but once I saw the benefits first hand I knew it wasn't just a placebo effect. I have a lab background so handeling it wasn't too much of stretch for me. It's not for everyone, I've never had a client complain about having it done but I've had plenty who regretted NOT having it done.

saw the benefits firts hand? go on ?

I am really curious about the benefits too. You might just change my mind.

maletac

ENOUGH WITH THE BEWB FEEDINGS PLEASE! lol not the same concept as eating your own placenta even in the slightest.

Musikelektronik

I think this is just gross. But I do think it's cute that the OP put "DO NOT MOD" in the subject line, as if the moderators will abide by her wishes just because she says so.

amcharanek

Is there a BBQ flavor?

mmmmm

maletac

I think this is just gross. But I do think it's cute that the OP put "DO NOT MOD" in the subject line, as if the moderators will abide by her wishes just because she says so.

he... and i got moded earlier for posting a different news story that had NOTHING wrong with it... some one was a little delete happy :grumble:

megmay2591

NO!
There is no scientific evidence to confirm or deny it. This is a different account of placenta consumption. From Huffington Post:


On the other end of the spectrum, Redd, posed the question: "How many other women are putting their trust in their placenta as a minimizer of baby blues when it very well may be a cause of their mama drama?"

Placentophagia -– the scientific word, usually in reference to animals -- drove her, she believes, into a "tabloid-worthy meltdown mode" -- causing tears and rage just one day after her first dose. As soon as she stopped taking the pills, she felt better.

And now, she regrets "being so gullible without a single shred of proof". After all, pre-pregnancy, she writes, she was the skeptic who would warn a friend, "You don't know what's actually in that! Natural doesn't always mean good." But once her baby came, the possibility of terrible things happening seemed far scarier than swallowing a few "miracle" pills.

Redd does consider that her manic episode and return to normalcy may have been independent from her pill consumption. A woman's hormones and body change so much post-birth that it would be hard to extract what caused her meltdown specifically. Factors that play into post-partum depression, or the tamer "baby blues" include hormonal changes and emotional factors. Research even suggests that weaning can be a cause.

Still, while the effects of placenta eating aren't clinically known, Redd suggests that, like an appendix, maybe placenta is something that should stay out of the body once it comes out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/eating-the-placenta_n_1383046.html

PanzaDiaries

Well for example I had a client (I'm a doula by the way, professional labor support and childbirth educator) who suffered from severe postpartum depression after the birth of her first baby. She also had issues with her milk supply and gave up breastfeeding within the first month. This pregnancy she did not want to have to take antidepressants or use formula so she did some research and contacted me. I was her doula for her birth and I also encapsulated her placenta. Her husband will tell you that she reacted completely different with this postpartum period. She had tons of energy and she never showed signs of depression. Best of all, to date, she has such a great milk supply that she has donated over 900 oz of milk to two local mothers who could not produce enough milk for their babies.

Musikelektronik

I think this is just gross. But I do think it's cute that the OP put "DO NOT MOD" in the subject line, as if the moderators will abide by her wishes just because she says so.

he... and i got moded earlier for posting a different news story that had NOTHING wrong with it... some one was a little delete happy :grumble:

Sorry that I misstated your gender. It's hard to tell from your profile pic.