Placenta Eating (DO NOT MOD)

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  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
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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.”

    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.”

    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.”

    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.”

    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".
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
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    Grokette is that you?

    Have you changed your username AGAIN!?



    Aborted babies in soda? Really, this is cray-cray.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
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    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.
  • ladykate7
    ladykate7 Posts: 206 Member
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  • Meaganandcheese
    Meaganandcheese Posts: 525 Member
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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.
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
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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.
  • coconutbuNZ
    coconutbuNZ Posts: 578 Member
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    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.
  • Virginia90
    Virginia90 Posts: 317 Member
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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.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,012 Member
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    This sounds yummy but I can't seem to find placenta on MFP.....What is the serving size and what are the nutrients?
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
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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:
  • Rhea30
    Rhea30 Posts: 625 Member
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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?

    I would do it. It has shown to help ward off postpartum depression and if it would keep me from having to take anti depressants which are not natural at all and come with side effects I'll eat my placenta in a heart beat.
  • kstep88
    kstep88 Posts: 403 Member
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    Gonna have to with big fat NO, Never...never... I have two daughters, and I did just fine without eating it, or having it in pill form. Are there any large studies to prove this is actually helpful? Exercise and eating right after having a baby can also help with PPD, so can sunlight (Vitamin D)

    ---To each their own, I guess.
  • CuteAndCurvy83
    CuteAndCurvy83 Posts: 570 Member
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    I'd encapsulate it,but not just eat it, that would be weird..
  • slrose
    slrose Posts: 164 Member
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    Animals eat their placentas to regain some nutrients that are lost through pregnancy and *MOSTLY* to clean up the mess so predators can not find their den. There is no nutritional value for modern women (goofy-*kitten* Hollywood women) to gain from eating their own placenta. And if you have to pay some doctor thousands of dollars to make it into a pill, don't talk to me. Slurp it down raw, or shut up. Otherwise it's all pretense.

    Hardcore!
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
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    barf.
  • tulip07
    tulip07 Posts: 167 Member
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    I had twins, milk came in after 3 days, breastfed both of them for 18 months, did not have any PPD. And NO I did not eat my placenta.

    Every pregnancy is different and every post-pregnancy experience is different and I don't believe it has anything to do with placenta eating.

    I come from one of the oldest and largest cultures (Indian) in the world and have never ever heard of this in our culture. Please don't say this has been done for thousands of years. There is no proof of that.
  • Virginia90
    Virginia90 Posts: 317 Member
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    Gonna have to with big fat NO, Never...never... I have two daughters, and I did just fine without eating it, or having it in pill form. Are there any large studies to prove this is actually helpful? Exercise and eating right after having a baby can also help with PPD, so can sunlight (Vitamin D)

    ---To each their own, I guess.

    Large studies, no, and there likely never will be - there is no financial benefit for proving the placenta can be beneficial if consumed after birth to anyone but the few people who encapsulate the pills, so who would bother funding a study for it? The CDC would never touch it with a 10 foot pole, because could you imagine the money big pharma would lose on anti-depressants if it was proven that it does effectively reduce PPD? There are many women who, if benefits were proven on a large study made by some big name, would pay the $200-300 to get their placenta encapsulated to take rather than the $500+ (in some cases) one might spend on chemical anti-depressants...or maybe not. I don't tend to hang out with many "mainstream" people, so maybe my perception of society is skewed. It only just occurred to me today that breastfeeding during pregnancy and tandem nursing wasn't a common practice. lol. :laugh:
  • Macrocarpa
    Macrocarpa Posts: 121 Member
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    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. . .

    I've gotta go into bat for the men here as by 'people', breastfeeding women generally mean 'men' because men are far more likely to openly look / stare at breastfeeding women.

    Also before I commence I have a gorgeous wife & daughter and am totally pro breastfeeding wherever, whenever. I think breastfeeding is absolutely fantastic. Appreciate and sympathise with those that cannot physically breastfeed though.

    OK onto boobies. For some bizarre reason breasts are irrevocably associated with sex. That is the context in which men most frequently see bare breasts being shown / used and is the context that most men view breasts. Again note this is product of environment & education.

    As such men are programmed from birth to view breasts as sex organs, not food. This is hammered into our heads again and again and again and again and again and again and again by movies, popular culture, and the most insidiuous influencers in the use of breasts as attention-seekers - young women.

    Don't stop to argue, just go for a walk out at about 11pm around a bar and see what I mean. Ever worn a push-up bra to make your boobs look bigger? Hey, you just used your breasts as sexual objects to attract attention. Likewise for low cut tops, boob tubes, lifters, separators, and anything which is boob-related that doesn't specifically relate to your comfort. 'But I just wanted to look nice!' - well what links boob prominence with looking 'nice'??

    The net result of this is that men see boobs as being part of sexytime. The awkwardness felt by men when they're confronted with a woman breastfeeding is the CONTEXT. "I am seeing something OUT OF CONTEXT. This breast, which I know as a sexual organ, is being used to feed a small child." It's nothing to do with the action of feeding any more than watching a child eat or use a bottle is disgusting. Proof? Woman breastfeeding a child vs woman bottle feeding a child with expressed breast milk. If the objection of the viewer is that the child is eating a human product then they would surely react to the latter situation with as much objection as to direct feeding.

    Further proof? Other cultures. Tribesmen out in African countries aren't titillated by boobies - and don't care if babies latch onto their moms in public. Why? Because those societies don't label breasts as sexual organs, and as a result they're fine to have them hanging out.

    Western society has its roots puritanical religion ('reproduction is dirty, you filthy sinners') and has some idiotic components to it. Boobs (a) aren't sexual and (b) are an incredibly important part of baby nutrition, and we should support women who are willing and capable of breastfeeding in whatever environment they choose (within reason).

    Thankfully we are moving towards a more open society where simple body functions like breastfeeding are accepted, or at the least tolerated.
  • Macrocarpa
    Macrocarpa Posts: 121 Member
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    Thoughts:

    Personally not something I support, for the following reasons:

    (a) apes, humans' closest genetic relatives, do not habitually eat placenta

    (b) The postpartum depression mitigation effects are disputed and there is no definitive medical or scientific research (ie one under controlled conditions, double-blinded, with a large sample, over a large period of time) to support the hypotheses

    (c) Obstetrician and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Maggie Blott disputes the post-natal depression theory, stating there is no medical reason to eat the placenta; "Animals eat their placenta to get nutrition - but when people are already well-nourished, there is no benefit, there is no reason to do it." source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4918290.stm

    But hey, if it's what gets these moms through a really hard part in their lives then sure, go for it.
  • SARBelgians
    SARBelgians Posts: 46 Member
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    If you don't want to eat it, donate it to the local Search & Rescue K9 unit for cadaver training!

    It's difficult to get human material to train the dogs with, so we rely heavily on donated placentas. It allows us to train the dogs to recognize human tissue scent, human decay scent and appropriately alert on it. We also rely on pulled teeth, detached fingers that couldn't be reattached, bloody gauze, nose bleed tissues, and if we are really, really lucky...donated tissue/bone when a family member dies and wanted their body to be used for SAR K9 training. We can even use tissue/bone from people that might not qualify for transplant or regular tissue harvesting.

    Something to think about....

    Jillian
    with 2 dual-certified airscent (live find) and cadaver SAR dogs!

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