Placenta Eating (DO NOT MOD)

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.

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...

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.

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?

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.

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?

Healthier and more benefits then eating placenta, unicorn meat

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?

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.”

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Aborted babies in soda? Really, this is cray-cray.