Placenta pills

[evesdream]

I was going to post this in bg's wtf products thread, then decided I need a poll.

I was all shocked and appalled and grossed out last week when I read the subway-daily headline and learned that January Jones attributes her post-baby beauty and well-being to eating her baby's placenta.

The horror.

Visceral, knee-jerk reaction. Sounds so witchy and gnarly. There's a beauty/health craze that involves placenta pills derived from sheep, but the word is that your own baby's placenta is the most nutritious.

Do you know someone who's done this? Would it freak you out if your partner announced she was eating the afterbirth? Would you partake?

 

[blunt_trauma]

i've seen that shit. it looked like the biggest period clot EVER! nothing about it made me think it just needed a little seasoning and some mustard.

i understand that it's natural for mammals to eat it. it's natural for mammals to lick their baby's arses clean too.

 

[Saint Peter]

Do you know someone who's done this? Would it freak you out if your partner announced she was eating the afterbirth? Would you partake?

No.
Yes.
No.

 

[evesdream]

i've seen that shit. it looked like the biggest period clot EVER! nothing about it made me think it just needed a little seasoning and some mustard.

i understand that it's natural for mammals to eat it. it's natural for mammals to lick their baby's arses clean too.

What they do is dry it out, grind it down into powder and encapsulate it into tablets to make it more palatable.

There are recipe guides too for cooking with it --- I haven't investigated more deeply to find whether you need to just sprinkle some on the lasagna or cook it into the supper.

 

[islandman]

Grossed out? Yes.

Surprised? No. Animals do it all the time albeit for non-beauty purposes.

 

[koalabear]

It would be better if the mom was a crack addict.

 

[Aquagal]

I'm with you. THE HORROR. It looked like a big piece of liver. I guess it's a vegans only chance to eat meat.
My midwife asked me if I wanted to take it home for such reasons...or to plant it under a tree.

HELL NO

 

[evesdream]

It's easier to consider eating animal by-products, gross as some of them are.

It seems so cannibalistic, but it really should be in the same category as breast-milk, no?

 

[islandman]

I'm with you. THE HORROR. It looked like a big piece of liver. I guess it's a vegans only chance to eat meat.
My midwife asked me if I wanted to take it home for such reasons...or to plant it under a tree.

HELL NO

Planting it under a tree is an old custom. The belief is that as the placenta feeds the tree and trees (theoretically) have a very long (and fruitful) life, so to will the individual whose placenta was used.

There's a mango tree out there with my afterbirth buried under its roots. Sweetest mangoes you ever did taste.

 

[blunt_trauma]

my midwives were sensible, no nonsense women. they dropped it in a bucket, inspected it's condition, (intact. gravelly) made a note and sent it to be incinerated.

the babies looked like better eating. tender!

 

[CandiCame]

I've heard that it's good for you- that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the subject, and I'm cool with that. Seems like a chick thing...

 

[shoulderblade]

I was all shocked and appalled and grossed out last week when I read the subway-daily headline and learned that January Jones attributes her post-baby beauty and well-being to eating her baby's placenta.

Actually the placenta is just as much hers as the baby's but that only makes it even weirder. I find the prospect rather repulsive as there would be nothing in the placenta that you could not get elsewhere. A barbaric practice really.

Also, how can you take anyone named "January Jones" seriously?

 

[blunt_trauma]

Planting it under a tree is an old custom. The belief is that as the placenta feeds the tree and trees (theoretically) have a very long (and fruitful) life, so to will the individual whose placenta was used.

There's a mango tree out there with my afterbirth buried under its roots. Sweetest mangoes you ever did taste.

cute custom.

where's it originate from?

 

[RoryN]

I'm praying that the producers of the television show How It's Made don't get curious...

 

[Aquagal]

Planting it under a tree is an old custom. The belief is that as the placenta feeds the tree and trees (theoretically) have a very long (and fruitful) life, so to will the individual whose placenta was used.

There's a mango tree out there with my afterbirth buried under its roots. Sweetest mangoes you ever did taste.

I knew about the custom, but I couldn't really till the earth in the dead of winter. And didn't feel like repeatedly saying "Hey Babe, thaw out the rib eyes, not the placenta.

 

[piccicatopolka]

Did you not know that this is the very history of the birthday cake and even wedding cake to celebrate future births?!

All close to the family in many cultures used to eat an honorary portion of stir fired placenta but those darned missionaries really got around to squelch many traditions. And in many cultures they couldn't wipe out a strong aspect of "Pagan" life so a substitute was created.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9a75tfZ0nE/SxrZNleWf-I/AAAAAAAAACw/nFE0SaSUMgU/s320/cake.jpg http://Fruit of the Womb

 

[CandiCame]

Did you not know that this is the very history of the birthday cake and even wedding cake to celebrate future births?!

All close to the family in many cultures used to eat an honorary portion of stir fired placenta but those darned missionaries really got around to squelch many traditions. And in many cultures they couldn't wipe out a strong aspect of "Pagan" life so a substitute was created.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9a75tfZ0nE/SxrZNleWf-I/AAAAAAAAACw/nFE0SaSUMgU/s320/cake.jpg http://Fruit of the Womb

I figured people just like cake. Any excuse to have a big ass fucking cake.

 

[rosco rathbone]

what the blood claat

 

[renard_ruse]

Does Obama eat dog placenta?

 

[doctor_insanus]

No.
Yes.
No.

This.

 

[evesdream]

Grossed out? Yes.

Surprised? No. Animals do it all the time albeit for non-beauty purposes.

The traditional wisdom is that it's full of enzymes and hormones and eases post-partum depression.

I'm with you. THE HORROR. It looked like a big piece of liver. I guess it's a vegans only chance to eat meat.
My midwife asked me if I wanted to take it home for such reasons...or to plant it under a tree.

HELL NO

It's vegan if it comes out of your own body? I guess that makes sense.

I'm praying that the producers of the television show How It's Made don't get curious...

mmm juicy blood and guts.

Did you not know that this is the very history of the birthday cake and even wedding cake to celebrate future births?!...
Fruit of the Womb[/URL]

I knew you'd be here bearing ancient lore. No, I didn't know that.

what the blood claat

Exactly so.

 

[Laurel]

http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/babybatter.jpg

 

[Laurel]

http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/placenta1.jpg
http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/placenta2.jpg
http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/placenta3.jpg
http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/placenta4.jpg

 

[neci]

i'm going to have to pass on that.

 

[evesdream]

Actually the placenta is just as much hers as the baby's but that only makes it even weirder. I find the prospect rather repulsive as there would be nothing in the placenta that you could not get elsewhere. A barbaric practice really.

Also, how can you take anyone named "January Jones" seriously?

Actually that reminds me of another one I heard of -- freezing saving the placenta for the baby's first birthday.

I've heard that it's good for you- that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the subject, and I'm cool with that. Seems like a chick thing...

I know. Like the kind of thing that's only spoken of in the menstrual hut.