Placenta Eating (DO NOT MOD)
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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.
While I am sure this is true, I don't know how related it was to the eating of the placenta.
My mom had postpartum badly with my sister, and none with me. Every pregnancy is different, and everyone's postpartum is different with each pregnancy. Some women have a good milk supply one pregnancy and none the next. I'm still not convinced eating the placenta had anything to do with this.
True but when I see it client after client I can't ignore it. I see a very distinct difference in moms who do PE and those that don't. Not in every case mind you but pretty frequently. Moms with PE have a shorter healing time and milk tends to come in faster and in larger quantities, and "baby blues" are seldom an issue. Ask me for studies and I can't provide much but I see it so I believe in the benefits.
How much does it generally cost? I am 17w5d pregnant, and I am open to this being accurate, but still get the 'gross out' factor. I will have to ask my doctor more about it and others who have experienced it.
Why on earth would you waste that money to get the nutritional value you could probably gain from a cow's liver. Don't be a sucker. It's just waste material. Animals eat it to keep predators away from their dens and their newborns. You have that problem? NO. Try not to be foolish.
Wow, SO rude.
I was asking out of curiosity more than anything. In fact, I had a personal conversation with someone saying "unless someone proved to me it was some sort of miracle I would NOT eat my own placenta."
In that same personal conversation I said "I would rather get those nutrients from somewhere else then eat my own organ"
I really do want to know how much people are spending on it, though... because I am curious.
If you read my very first post, you would see I have no desire to partake in this...but even if I did, WHY on earth do you feel it appropriate to decide on what I do with my body or my pregnancy?
I still plan on asking others experiences (again, for curiosity, not that I should have to state this), because it would be interesting to hear what others have to say. I personally think it is placebo affect and have found no scientific conclusions on the benefits...but so long as it isn't causing harm and you have the disposable income, I see nothing wrong with the women who want to try it. It is just not for me.
Sorry. I did not mean to be rude or judgemental. I'm usually niether. I guess this just smacks of snake oil to me and makes me think people are getting conned. That tends to raise my hackles. I could be totally wrong. So please accept my apology for being so abrupt.0 -
And poop.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. . .
Some animals eat their young also.0 -
ALOT of people do not drink their own urine. Some extremists do. Urine is full of toxins your body wishes to dispose of. It is also not always sterile, that is a myth. It often contains bacteria. If you drink your own urine, what will stop you from consuming your own feces? Both are waste products. They are meant for ELIMINATION. Not consumption. Basic common sense. If it is a matter of life or death, that's one thing I guess.
As far as eating the placenta goes, no. Not for me. And I am into natural and holistic. But um, no.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...
Yes, a LOT of people drink their own urine. It is sterile.....
There is a Mexican Boxer that is widely known for drinking his own urine.
As someone else mentioned, we are still animals. Just because we get up and put clothes and shoes on and drive vehicles still doesn't make us very much different than any other animal in this huge kingdom.
Except humans are the only animal that is destroying the environment and the earth............for an animal that has such a High IQ, we are really stupid.
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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.
While I am sure this is true, I don't know how related it was to the eating of the placenta.
My mom had postpartum badly with my sister, and none with me. Every pregnancy is different, and everyone's postpartum is different with each pregnancy. Some women have a good milk supply one pregnancy and none the next. I'm still not convinced eating the placenta had anything to do with this.
True but when I see it client after client I can't ignore it. I see a very distinct difference in moms who do PE and those that don't. Not in every case mind you but pretty frequently. Moms with PE have a shorter healing time and milk tends to come in faster and in larger quantities, and "baby blues" are seldom an issue. Ask me for studies and I can't provide much but I see it so I believe in the benefits.
How much does it generally cost? I am 17w5d pregnant, and I am open to this being accurate, but still get the 'gross out' factor. I will have to ask my doctor more about it and others who have experienced it.
Why on earth would you waste that money to get the nutritional value you could probably gain from a cow's liver. Don't be a sucker. It's just waste material. Animals eat it to keep predators away from their dens and their newborns. You have that problem? NO. Try not to be foolish.
Wow, SO rude.
I was asking out of curiosity more than anything. In fact, I had a personal conversation with someone saying "unless someone proved to me it was some sort of miracle I would NOT eat my own placenta."
In that same personal conversation I said "I would rather get those nutrients from somewhere else then eat my own organ"
I really do want to know how much people are spending on it, though... because I am curious.
If you read my very first post, you would see I have no desire to partake in this...but even if I did, WHY on earth do you feel it appropriate to decide on what I do with my body or my pregnancy?
I still plan on asking others experiences (again, for curiosity, not that I should have to state this), because it would be interesting to hear what others have to say. I personally think it is placebo affect and have found no scientific conclusions on the benefits...but so long as it isn't causing harm and you have the disposable income, I see nothing wrong with the women who want to try it. It is just not for me.
Sorry. I did not mean to be rude or judgemental. I'm usually niether. I guess this just smacks of snake oil to me and makes me think people are getting conned. That tends to raise my hackles. I could be totally wrong. So please accept my apology for being so abrupt.
Apology accepted, thank you
I understand where you are coming from, and I understand the women who want to try it. To me though, its not worth the money even if it is 'beneficial'. Although if someone told me it cured morning sickness I'd be asking to buy women's placentas in a heartbeat because I am that desperate, lol!0 -
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.
Exactly, this practice has been going on for centuries and probably since the beginning of time.
What I don't understand is why people are so grossed out by someone eating their own placenta but they are not worried about the aborted babies they are drinking everytime they pick up a pepsi.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
Think of the aborted babies the next time you pick up a PEPSI0 -
I didnt eat my placenta and I didnt suffer for PPD and had plenty of milk. This is all anecdotal evidence.
What do I think of eating the placenta? It grosses me out because its a form of cannabalism in my mind.
What do I think of others that do it? The same thing I think when they do anything else. I really don't give a f!@#
Just dont serve it at your next dinner party.
How is a practice that has been done for thousands of years anecdotal evidence, yet the latest pharmaceutical drug that comes on the market is better than the second coming of Jesus?
This baffles me? I will take a natural remedy that has been proven over thousands of years over something with 3 paragraphs of side effects that has been on the market for 20 seconds.
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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
personal opinion?
would you do it?
how did this become a craze?
It didn't become a "craze". This practice has been done for thousands of years. Most Westernized people don't care about knowing the first bit about alternative or chinese medicine.
I believe more people (unlike most on this website) are becoming more in tune with their bodies and turning back to traditional and natural remedies with ailments and just over all health.0 -
But when you breast feed in public people stare and stare and make comments like its wrong. . .
Don't people just stare to try and get a glimpse of boob? If someone wasn't property covering the boob, me being a heterosexual female would be all grossed out at the nudity and lack of shame (they make really cute, affordable easy to use swaddler things that mom's can use and you don't see an ounce of skin so there is no excuse) but that's not due to the act of feeding, it’s the lack of discretion some women have when wiping out your baby-feeders.
Regarding eating the placenta, sounds pretty gross because after all, how bad did that baby smell coming out?? EWWW! Would you suck on a tampon if it was good for you? Ground up however is a different story - to each their own. A co-worker is preggo and I saw hiring a Dula who performs no medical actions once or ever costs $850, boo! That prob. does not include the drying of the placenta. I'll take my free doctor and nurses, supportive family and 1 year off from work with pay so no concern with breast feeding hiding there but that’s just my deal hunting nature.
Where do you live that you get a free doctor and nurses, and 1 year off with pay??? I want to live THERE!!!!
Healthcare is free in the UK and I was able to take a year off, paid with my daughter, It was on a scale, like full pay for 18 weeks then it went to half pay. I work in the NHS. Typically public service workers in the UK get quite generous benefits like mat leave and sickness. I didn't pay for any of my ante- or post- natal healthcare.
Also breast-feeding is pretty much normal here. I fed my daughter wherever we were and only ever had positive comments, or mostly people would just look and smile.0 -
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.
I'm just wondering, is this in any way regulated? I'm not sure what branch this would fall into, usually anywhere you prepare food for public consumption you need a health inspection, but as a dietary supplement, are you regulated by the FDA? Or somewhow because of the scale are you not regulated at all?
I would hope there is some sort of safety inspection of this, all it takes is one person doing this that has no idea of food safety to get someone seriously ill.....0 -
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.
Exactly, this practice has been going on for centuries and probably since the beginning of time.
What I don't understand is why people are so grossed out by someone eating their own placenta but they are not worried about the aborted babies they are drinking everytime they pick up a pepsi.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
Think of the aborted babies the next time you pick up a PEPSI
I read this and decided to have a diet pepsi this morning instead of tea. It's pretty tasty.
As for the placenta, yes I'm sure we'd all enjoy eating a human organ rich in potentially infectious human blood products. Even better when it's your own and prepared in a kitchen that processes others with no efforts to contain cross contamination. Why not suck on a juicy tampon too since it's the endometrial lining?
Animals and ancient humans do/did a lot of stupid stuff. Does that mean it's what we should do too?0 -
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.
Exactly, this practice has been going on for centuries and probably since the beginning of time.
What I don't understand is why people are so grossed out by someone eating their own placenta but they are not worried about the aborted babies they are drinking everytime they pick up a pepsi.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
Think of the aborted babies the next time you pick up a PEPSI
Do have anything more solid then an alarmist site?0 -
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...
Muhahahahaha!0 -
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.
Exactly, this practice has been going on for centuries and probably since the beginning of time.
What I don't understand is why people are so grossed out by someone eating their own placenta but they are not worried about the aborted babies they are drinking everytime they pick up a pepsi.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
Think of the aborted babies the next time you pick up a PEPSI
Do have anything more solid then an alarmist site?
Waits.
For 11ty billion years.0 -
I didnt eat my placenta and I didnt suffer for PPD and had plenty of milk. This is all anecdotal evidence.
What do I think of eating the placenta? It grosses me out because its a form of cannabalism in my mind.
What do I think of others that do it? The same thing I think when they do anything else. I really don't give a f!@#
Just dont serve it at your next dinner party.
How is a practice that has been done for thousands of years anecdotal evidence, yet the latest pharmaceutical drug that comes on the market is better than the second coming of Jesus?
This baffles me? I will take a natural remedy that has been proven over thousands of years over something with 3 paragraphs of side effects that has been on the market for 20 seconds.
Makes me SMDH
Appeal to tradition0 -
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Waits.
For 11ty billion years.
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eagerly waiting...0 -
Healthier and more benefits then eating placenta, unicorn meat
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Healthier and more benefits then eating placenta, unicorn meat
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Seriously though....is it suggestive of a personality flaw that the only part of the unicorn that interested me was the superglue?0 -
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"excellent source of sparkles..."
Finally! I've found the supplement I've been looking for.0 -
Placenta Pho'0
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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.
Exactly, this practice has been going on for centuries and probably since the beginning of time.
What I don't understand is why people are so grossed out by someone eating their own placenta but they are not worried about the aborted babies they are drinking everytime they pick up a pepsi.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032043_human_fetal_cells_artificial_flavors.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
Think of the aborted babies the next time you pick up a PEPSI
Do have anything more solid then an alarmist site?
Natural News is not an alarmist website for the record.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/March/PepsiCo-Accused-of-Using-Aborted-Fetal-Cells-in-Drinks/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/28/pepsico-denies-accusations-on-link-to-aborted-feta/?page=all#pagebreak
PepsiCo has come under fire from pro-life advocates because it has been contracting with a research firm that uses fetal cells from babies victimized by abortions to test and produce artificial flavor enhancers.
Now, the Obama administration is set to face more criticism because an agency has declared that Pepsi’s use of the company and its controversial flavor testing process constitutes “ordinary business.â€
In a decision delivered February 28, the Security and Exchange Commission ruled that PepsiCo’s use of aborted fetal remains in their research and development agreement with Senomyx to produce flavor enhancers falls under “ordinary business operations.â€
Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of Children of God for Life, the organization that exposed the PepsiCo- Senomyx collaboration last year, informed LifeNews today that a letter signed by Attorney Brian Pitko of the SEC Office of Chief Counsel was sent in response to a 36-page document submitted by PepsiCo attorneys in January 2012. In that filing, PepsiCo pleaded with the SEC to reject a Shareholder’s Resolution filed in October 2011 that the company “adopt a corporate policy that recognizes human rights and employs ethical standards which do not involve using the remains of aborted human beings in both private and collaborative research and development agreements.â€
PepsiCo lead attorney George A. Schieren noted that the resolution should be excluded because it “deals with matters related to the company’s ordinary business operations†and that “certain tasks are so fundamental to run a company on a day-to-day basis that they could not be subject to stockholder oversight.â€
There are enough names dropped, why don't you send them an email since you think people are always fear mongering. The truth is this country does some VERY deceitful practices all in the name of "ordinary business".0 -
Grokette is that you?
Have you changed your username AGAIN!?
Aborted babies in soda? Really, this is cray-cray.0 -
Grokette is that you?
Have you changed your username AGAIN!?
Aborted babies in soda? Really, this is cray-cray.
no, for real! that's why I only drink diet. artificial babies, no calories.0 -
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There was a post about this recently on Healthy Tipping Point. It's something that really weirds me out right now (but so do many facets of childbirth), but I am sure when I am pregnant and it's a more relevant choice to make, I'll be more open-minded. Whether someone chooses to do it hardly has bearing on me in the meantime.0
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i probably won't do that when i give birth one day. it weirds me out personally, but it's certainly interesting. i'd definitely need to read studies, etc on the benefits just because eating organs just freaks me out. i do plan on breast feeding though.
i know it's totally natural and other animals do it, etc etc and if you want to, go for it! probably won't do it myself though.0 -
Where I am from the placenta is sacred. For some cultures, it is buried under a tree after the birth of a child. No I wouldn't eat it or any other bits that come out of the human body. Yuck.0
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I encapsulated my placenta - my husband helped me. It wasn't very hard, and I actually find skinning chicken to be grosser. I saw a marked difference in myself though after I started taking them - I was starting to develop PPD, but as soon as I started taking them, I felt a million times better. My iron levels were also perfect while taking them.
dont iron levels get better if you eat red meat and take iron suppliments too?
I don't eat much red meat, and even when I do, my body doesn't respond properly to the iron in the meat - I'm borderline anemic even if I eat red meat daily. Iron supplements are not breastfeeding friendly for my daughter - if I take them, she gets extremely constipated. It's not like I taste my placenta when I take the placenta pills, and I didn't pay anyone for them. I know I'm disease free, I know how to handle raw meat to keep it from going bad, and I used sterile equipment. All I know is when I took the pills a couple times a day, I felt great, fully of energy, and happy, but if I forgot for a day or two, I would become tired, irritable, and depressed.
Just because there isn't a study that touts the benefits, doesn't mean there aren't benefits. I would never be able to actually eat it like a meal or smoothie, because the thought grosses me out, but swallowing it in a pill? No different from taking a prenatal vitamin to me.0 -
This sounds yummy but I can't seem to find placenta on MFP.....What is the serving size and what are the nutrients?0
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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...
^ It comes highly recommended! :drinker:0
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