On how his wife ate her placenta.
Yes, you read that correctly. You think I make this stuff up?Seems after her hospital birth, she had him pack the placenta up in an ice chest and take it home where a placenta preparer (here's a career you could threaten your child with if he/she doesn't apply himself/herself in school) cooked it up, freeze dried it, and then processed it into capsules for the wife to take. Supposedly, this would help her ward off postpartum depression. And, if she was lucky enough to have a large placenta, she could save some capsules to help with those glorious menopausal days as well.
And I thought the dried beef liver capsules I had to take when I was anemic were nasty. They sound practically appetizer worthy compared to this.
Now, I am a fairly earthy woman. One of these days I'll get around to telling you my birth experiences which cover the gamut and possibly include a placenta story of my own. However, let me assure you I have never partaken of this organ nor do I plan to do so.But, I did want to do some further research to help you decide if placenta popping should be in your future. As luck would have it, I found an entire website, Placenta Benefits.info, that can provide help in finding your own "placenta encapsulation specialist" or, now here the luck really ramps up, can provide you with a "do it yourself" kit and full instructions. Yes, you can encapsulate your own placenta. Furthermore, I found instructions that the capsules should be taken with white wine. I'm thinking a full box of it. I'd need that much to wash it down.
I have elaborated in prior posts on the similarities between animal and human mothers. But, let me just make this clear right now.
I do not think I could ever ingest a placenta. Not when there are perfectly good, non-smelly, unknown origin pharmaceuticals out there.
Somebody has to keep these drug companies in business.
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Similarities between animal and human mothers? Hmmm, I think we may have found ourselves a winner here. On the "differences" between animal and human mothers side of things.
One word? Ew.
Ellie
OK now I've lost my appetite for breakfast
Oh my gosh! I feel sick after reading that one. Yuck!
GAG.....that is seriously gross.
Me thinks it's too early in the morning to even comment on placenta ingestion. . . .
Ha, I was just talking to Hubby about this the other day. He saw it mentioned on TV. He had never heard of it & felt he never should have:P I'm not that earthy either.
Funny! I just read this article yesterday while riding with my husband to take his mother to the doctor (it is a 4 hour round trip). He didn't appreciate me reading it aloud to him.
Sick stuff.
Crap on a cracker! That is just WRONG.
Ummmm...yuck. I can't think of anything else to say...that sums it up.
Gross...really gross...this is what makes me different from a dog...never would I eat this...no matter how depressed!
this is so interesting! i don't really think it's that gross, to be honest. i mean, we feed our babies breast milk and we eat animals organs all the time - among other disgusting things we call delicacies.
WTF!!!
I had to stop reading!!! This is the perfect example of why we make fun of people with too much $$$.
This was a very common practice - think about our ancestors and their poor diets. Placentas do have nutritional value.
In the modern era - not so necessary. Like the appendix, the time has passed for this to be useful.
Blech. That's all I got.
I know it is high in nutrients, but EW!
There was a commercial sketch written for but never performed on early early SNL (deemed unacceptable by the censors in the 70's) for Placenta Helper. (think Hamburger Helper) SNL was so ahead of it's time.
I think I'm gonna throw up... seriously?! What will people think of next???
I gag on vitamins... I can only imagine taking that!!
Holy schmoly! I hadn't heard about that "benefit" yet. *shivers*
No, no...you had me at "placenta."
Ew. I knew that there are different cultural ways to dispose of the placenta, but ew. Just...no.
And I read magazines like you do.
I am glad you are here to show us the newest in medicinal technology! LOL! THIS is GROSS but funny. :)
Thank God my child bearing days are over! And my menopause can do without the pills thanks!!
Suddenly my breakfast doesn't feel so well... This sounds a bit like cannibalism, no? Ew!
Ew...ew...ew..
Words escape me. How about...yuk.
I have heard about woman doing this before. I will not join in when I have my second child. Gross.
I...uhm, am not sure what to say to that other than
NO FRIKING WAY!
Disgusting.
Gross. Just plain gross.
My dad's an OB/GYN and he had a patient actually NAME their child Placenta. Yeah. So on the day in school when kids are asked where their name came from she gets to say, "Oh-I'm named the organ that connects the fetus to the uterus." Ew.
Running. Screaming.
Yes I was told of this practice from my best friend a few years ago at a girls weekend at our cabin with about 10 of us. I had been friends with her for over 20 years and NEVER heard her tell of have a milkshake made from the placenta with each of her 3 children. EVERYONE was dumbstruck. Ick, Yuck, Ewieeeee! Made me rethink some of her concepts on life let me tell you.
Oh My.
That's all I can say.
Oh, and yuck.
Like you said, you couldn't make this stuff up.
I've heard of this practice, but I've always imagined that you had to actually eat it. You know, with fries and everything. Blech.
But the pills made from your placenta? I could possibly handle that. It's just I don't see the point, really.
My mum says that the woman she shared a room with in the hospital did it. Whenever we see that woman it's the only thing we can think about.
Okay I am extremly nauseated now...thanks for informing me of the placenta ingestion
I wonder if it tastes like chicken!? Hmmm.... LOL!
No seriously, a group of women on my babycenter board were just talking about this very thing recently. And well although I don't think I could do it, never say never, ya know. I was fortunate to not experience post partum depression but I know people who have. And a few of those folks said that they might consider it in the future because if it could slightly help them feel better, then they would do it.
So who am I to judge?
By the way, I'd like a box of RED wine to go with it, if I do ever eat it. Red goes better with meat right? LOL again!
Barf.
at least it was in capsule form... and she didn't sit and chew on it right there in the hospital bed, right? either way, my gag reflex has been triggered for the day. Thanks, love reading your posts!
yuck. never heard of it, but I'd need more than a box of wine to get that down! Never thought I'd say this, but bring on the drugs!!
OMG - truth is stranger than fiction.
I hadn't heard about thiS - which is atypical of me, since I consider myself a quirky info expert.
The fact that I didn't find this whole thing gross - no, THAT is not atypical of me at all. LOL
It is cannibalist, if you ask me. What? We are different than other animals?
Oh Yummy! NOT!
Wonder if I could soak my kidney stone and then cook it up like a bean?
That is so absolutely GROSS!
P.S.
Wanna know the Swedish word for placenta?
Of course you do. It's "moderkaka" - meaning mother cake!
♥ maria-thérèse www.afiori.com ♥
eeewwww....
We had a cow give birth to a calf this week and she ate her placenta. I was not tempted at all! LOL
wow.
at least you've helped with my diet today. not sure i'm hungry for lunch after that.
I can't believe it's possible to be any weirder that Matthew "I buried my girlfriend's placenta under a tree" Matthew McConaughey.
Blech! Who in their RIGHT mind would do this? Oh, I guess I answered my own question. You would have to be OUT of your mind to do this.
I say, one ought to be willing to eat one's placenta raw and rare, like a wild animal, or not at all.
The placenta is the only "meat" a vegan can eat as it is not the result of the death or mistreatment of an animal. Really, it's true. I have lots of vegan friends.
My SIL saved her placenta (her babes were all born at home). I was visiting her shortly after her 2nd son was born (mind you, at the time I was NOT married and had no intentions of ever having children, which we know changed, but I digress). I went to get something out of the fridge and she shouted, "Don't go in the crisper drawer, my placenta is in there." OMG, I about died. I was happy to hear she wasn't going to eat it but was going to use it as fertilizer for a tree they were planting in honor of their newborn son.
I couldn't even look down there during my wife's 2 births nevermind eat any of it.
I say, "whatever floats your boat" but there is no way I would have eaten my placenta (even in pill form). I guess I'm just not that progressive.
wow, that just seems over the top icky!
I am a goat. I eat my placenta but it is so that wild animals cannot find me and my kid.
It about makes the publicist throw up when I do it. heh heh
The publicist about gagged when she read your post. She is not sure she thanks you for this information and she is now glad she reads Newsweek and not Time.
I'm a relatively new father. Before the ante-natal classes I simply had no idea. My little, simple world simply did not contain the concept.
Note to self: Just to be on the safe side...don't read Suburb Sanity directly AFTER ingesting a meal.
Oy. lol. ;)
I gotta tell you...I could NEVER EAT a placenta. YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK.
lol when you read all those yucks together is kinda looks like something else... but don't go there! Potty brain.
Anywho.
I think I honestly would have the capsule form. I can tell that I will not be saving my placenta for any further experiementation, but I wouldn't be opposed to it per say.
It someone doesn't seem natural... I dont know, cause maybe it is the DEFINITION of natural.
Great topic!
God bless-
Amanda
At first I thought there must be typo in your post and then I realized you just said ingest placenta. Wow lovely! All I've ever heard is that placenta can be great as a facemask? Come stop by sweetie for a new cable car confession xoxo
There are definitely all kinds of people in this world. Gross is an understatement for that kind of "meal".
Ok. The placenta thing I can handle. But now I'm left wondering if the comment about a BOX of wine was tongue in cheek, or am I now going to have to hold your classiness in doubt?
WOW...I mean wow really. Here is a little TMI. After my son was born they borrowed my placenta and umbilical chord to collect the cells. Apparently in FL, where I was living at the time, this is pretty standard even if you didn't pay the extra dough to store it for future illnesses. I didn't mind, I hope it helps someone but.....watching someone mess with that stuff was enough for me.....heaven forbid anyone EAT it. Gah.
That's pretty scrumptious sounding. About as scrumptious and the diet craze right now; taking pills containing urine from a pregnant female (is there any other sex for a pregnant human?). The dieters don't stop to think that a 500 calorie per day diet would make the heartiest person lose weight. Maybe the pills also make them "heave" ho.
Just yesterday it dawned on Miles that he is eating ANIMALS when he eats meat. I thought he was going to pass out, the poor kid. Now he's saying things like "I don't eat animals!" Natural vegetarian apparently...
Anyway...Just wait 'til he hears about eating placenta!!! (no, of course I won't tell him, he's FOUR)
I'm going to steal from him now.
"I don't eat placenta!"
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well what did you think they put in the kids chicken nuggets?!
Actually I read somewhere that placenta is good for the complexion as it's full of healthy nutrients. Thank goodness we can google all these things otherwise we might just think 'Hmmm maybe I should try this placenta with my fries...on my veruccas...'
I'm going to hurl.
Yuck.
Wow - and to think my child bearing years are over.
I do have to say, however, that "taking in" the placenta via caps is much better than stuff I read during my pregnancy months. Somewhere I read where a lady cooked it up in her spaghetti. *gag*
All I can think of is OMG and gross! Might as well bag up tonsils, spleens, appendix and gall bladders! Hey Grandpa, what's for supper!!! LOL
Just wanted to let you know that I don't get nauseous easily but this one did me in. I'm on a diet right now so I'm just going to reread this. I'm going to be so thin, I guess I should thank you.
Good Lord, no way Jose. No bloody way.
In a word-- N A S T Y !
What will they think of next!?!?!
I just got a little sick to my stomach reading your post. I couldn't and do not want to imagine the taste. Just gross.
I had no idea!! Off to read more...I am grossed out and so curious!
I grew up in the really liberal (read that as hippie) part of northern CA. I've know a few women who eat their placenta.
It totally and completely grosses me out.
I could so happily have gone through life not knowing people did this. Thankfully I have a few hours before dinner tonight. I'm hoping I've recovered my appetite by then ;)
Holy Moley, I don't know what to say. And I thought I'd eat ANYTHING.
Thanks for stopping at my blog and the good wishes!
I have heard of this but I would never eat my placenta. I can't even think of it w/o gagging. To each their own but unless my life depended on it I would not do it!
Sazz
OMG, I've heard it all now!!!! Hitonious to the max!!
I think ladies who eat their own placentas are the same ladies who bathe in their own urine and bag their own feces to use in their garden.
Lordy!! Crazy stuff!!!!!
:-)
idiots!! Animals ingest their pacenta coz they've got no cleaning service, and...oh come on! Why am I even arguing on this!?! Its just weird!!!
U.N.B.E.L.I.E.V.A.B.L.E.
Kinda makes my family's nose-picking issues sound downright appetizing, huh?
Honestly, what next?
"I had my gall bladder removed."
"Oh? What did you do with it?"
"Frappe'd it into a smoothie. Duh."
I guess I'm just not that cool!
Dear Debbie,
That is just so disgusting.
And oh, yeah - there's a present for you over at The Turtle. :>)
I feel much better knowing it was made into pill form - I could just see her ripping into like my dog has after giving birth. I might be able to do in pill form - but if it smells bad count me out!
Oy - I'd heard about that - didn't know you could DIY it though! Bleck.
BLUCK!! Nothing else...
I don't care how earthy you are, that's just wrong. Ewwww! I'm not that open minded.
What can I say, Debbie? There are no words...
This is just crazy. People are just crazy!
See - I thought postpartum depression *caused* people to do things like eat their placentas...
what can I say?
Ah yes.... YUCK!
I think I'd rather risk the pharmaceutical side effects such as being aroused for more than 24 hours :D
So... and I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but I'm not about to read 100 comments... would this be considered cannibalism? I'm just asking...
I know a woman who ate a part of her placenta after she had her baby. I nearly gagged when she told me this.
I'd rather eat a placenta anyday than give Big Pharma any more money.
Does that make me a weirdo? LOL
oh no! I will not eat that.. I have heard of placenta (animals) being used in hair products but man...
Oh man, I am cracking up at your comments. I came here from someone else's blog that I read, and I'm one of the "out of her mind," "gross," "insane," "weirdo," "liberal hippie freak" moms who ate her own placenta. Yup. Chopped that sucker up and put it in a smoothie (about half a dozen smoothies, actually, it was much too big for just one). So I feel a bit obliged to clear a few things up for your legions of horrified readers:
Yes, people actually do this, it's called placentophagy, no it's not cannibalism, no it doesn't taste like chicken (it's more like liver), and no it's nothing like eating your gallbladder, because, well, there's no health benefits to eatnig your gallbladder. Even if you don't eat it or encapsulate it, it's tradition in some circles to do SOMETHING with the darn thing...planting under a tree is a very nice (and not at all kooky!) gesture, because it feeds the tree tons of nutrients. The placenta is too awesome to just throw away, IMO...but there I go again being all ku-raaaaazy. ;)
I won't go into further details about my experience, but if anyone really wants to know, you can head over to my blog and do a search for "placenta" to read the handful of entries I posted about eating mine. Thanks for the giggles...I now know for sure that I have the ultimate trump card when it comes to big fish stories at parties!
Now that my friend is a meal I do not plan on eating ever in my life.. My daughter came into the room while I was reading it and asked why I was making such a face.. I didn't even realize my nose and forhead were also having a reaction.
Staci
I really hope you made that up since I just ingested a small carton of Butterfinger ice cream.
i think i just vomited in my mouth a little bit...seriously nasty...some people have waaaaay to much time on their hands....
Um...that first pic about sums it up for me. I'll stick with my zoloft, thank you. =P
eew! sounds icky! But honestly its not as gross to me as drinking milk...think about it. Its milk from a cow. From its UDDER, intended for baby cows, and we drink it? Eew. Sounds icky.
OMG! I've lost my appetite... Still, I gather we used to do it once upon a time. Can't be that much worse than eating .. say... liver?
LOL. I think I'll skip breakfast too.
LOL.
Have a wonderful Thursday!
Ms Cupcake
ZenCupcake
You have a great blog and I agree, The NY Times?
Kim
Very funny. I understand the idea theoretically but do NOT understand the practice. We are a highly well fed society that does not need to get nutrition from desperate places. Just go eat some stinking spinach people.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. I kept trying to rationalize my way into thinking I could do this. And now I just feel queasy.
Blech.
Ok one word here. Disgusting. Why why why? I just lost my appetite too.
And now I have to go make lunch...
Aaagghhhh!!
thanks for your visit - really love your humor. Put a big smile on my face! I'm going out to buy my ice cream cones now.
Awesome. When I say "awesome," I mean "What do I do with this information? Cringe? Laugh? Vomit? Send it on? What else can we freeze dry? I mean, I've seen cats eat their own placentas after delivering kittens. Surely it's king of natural. If I were alone in the wilderness and had a baby, I would have to gnaw through the umbilical cord.. but that's like a last resort. I'd have probably been resonsible enough to find a sharp rock and set it beside me during the contraction phase so that I wouldn't have to chew through anything. Or maybe not. But then why am I alon in the wilderness anyway? That sounds very metaphorical - alone in the wilderness.. What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
Awesome.
Thanks, by the way, for stopping by de-comp! :)
You know I have to admit, I ate my placenta, too. But that was because we had nothing in the house to eat and I was STARVING.
Oh. My. Dear. Heavenly. God.
Um. No thanks.
What the hell is wrong with people!???
I had no idea that such things existed. Placenta pills? And now that I do...I'm feeling a little queasy. ~blech~ Mark me down as not being a placenta eater, too. I think I need to go lie down!
Life...EXAGGERATED
I've heard of burying a placenta . . . some ancient tribal custom. But eating one? Eewww!
Mr. M has watched his dad make martinis with pimento-stuffed olives. One day we were eating take-out salad. He picked up his empty olive and said, "Gee, Mom. Too bad they removed the placenta."
I had all 3 of my children with a midwife and they always ask "Do you want us to save this for you?" and I would politely and matter of fact say "No thank you" and then move on. To see the look on my Mom and Hubby's faces when they put 2 and 2 together is priceless. As if watching some one give birth wasn't enough then put THAT image in your head. Ek.
um ewwie! I wanted to see what mine looked like after delivering but to eat it? no thank you ma'am!
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Dawn
Yuck, yuck and double yuck! No thanks, I'd rather take some Prozac, thank you!
Ummmmmmmm............. I don't even know what to say!
Oh, man. The very thought . . .
Ugh. Ick. Ew.
Our body expels the placenta. Our body expels poop. 'Nuf said.
Glad I refound you today!
Oh, oh, oh, ugh. I am no longer hungry. Seems a little weird. Made me think right away of what our guinea pig eats that comes out of his body. Seems his body hasn't quite used up the nutrients....Can't go there.
But the placenta takes that reuse and recycle mantra just a little too far.
I know someone who ate her placenta. It was a actually a former teacher. Not in a hundred million years. Nope! lol
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog, btw :).
Can I just say Ewwwwwwwww!!!!! :)
Very strange. I never knew such a thing existed. I would never do that - I'd take my chances with the postpartum.
Ugh, I could not even IMAGINE. *shudders* I do have a couple of earthy friends with placenta in their freezers, but I did not even want to see mine. ha!
Aww! I don't know what to say. I have never heard this before. I heard about monthly menstrual blood... but was not sure what they do with it.
I totally encapsulated my placenta, and I still take it when I need a boost.
It was one of the best decisions I have ever made. No PPD this time around, no PTSD this time around, tons of milk.
No complaints here. :)
yuck! I rather get depression and take pills for that than eat my own placenta ugh! (Knock on wood)!
B A R P H F F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw a show once that had a placenta party. It was like watching a horror show to me. Of course, many things I do may seem insane to others ( not really )
Ha haaaaaaaaa !
I gave birth to my son 13 years ago today - and I remember someone in the ward doing that same thing. We were all very intrigued and no - no one emulated it!
Yucko!
Wow. Not hungry anymore...
Now I'm all about recycling, but this is seriously disturbing. YUCK!!
Honestly - I'd rather be depressed... this is so gross!...lol
It's not my first choice in ingestible substances, but I wouldn't hate on someone for making the choice to do so. So good for them! I'll stick with my One a Day and xanax!
I have heard of this, but yeah, I would rather take Prozac. Yuck! I agree with the person who said out body expels the placenta and expels poop.
I normally like to try new things, but ummm... gross! It sounds kind of like you would be eating yourself. What's that called? Oh yeah... cannibalism! I have actually heard of this before, but I'm with you... I don't think I'll be having placenta for dinner... ever! I've also heard some cultures bury the placenta in the ground underneath the bed where mom gives birth... Don't know how that works in a hospital... Hmmm...
I'M BACK!!! My computer!! It's fixed!! Yes!!
OK I've calmed down now.
Well hell, it's been THREE FREAKIN' WEEKS.
And just so you know? I'm gonna copy and paste this comment and post it on all the blogs I visit....:))))
yeah, I'm gonna need that in pill form.
All I have to say is wow, just wow!
I sort of veered from laughing to gagging...GOOD LORD...it's only 7:40 in the a m and my coffee cup sits untouched...lol...congratulations on Post of the Day nomination! Wow...this was a trip!
Sandi
think i saw this the first time in a movie...cringe...congrats on the pOTD mention!
GROSS ME OUT!
That's just icky!
You have the talent to change serious topics to one of humor. I guess my second visit here, and enjoyed it as much this time too.
Congratulations on the mention at the POTD.
I think that sounds pretty disgusting!
I thought you were supposed to bury it ... not eat it. ick.
Oh GOD. THIS IS SICK.
My breakfast has gone dpwn the drain. Cant eat for a while now.
My husband works for a pharma company and he said that everything they put into capsules breaks down in under two years. There would be nothing nutritious left after two year (for menapause). Just thought you would like to know that tidbit.
It is pretty gross. I loved the comment about eating it with fries though. Gag. I bet it would be the consistancy of liver.
*GAG!*
You lost me at "...ate her placenta" BLECK!!!!
it's really weird that you would write this, because I stumbled across that placenta encapsulating website last week thinking someone was screwing with me when they said they were thinking about taking their placenta in pill form.... ummm... no thank you.
Excuse me while I go throw up. Gross.
What, I leave town for a few days and come back and find a post I can really sink my teeth into. Not surprised at all. I used to read about people frying it up like liver. I personally kept mine in the freezer for a while and then planted it under a dogwood tree. I have a photo of hubs planting it. The tree did not fare well, however.
Perfect timing. The late-night munchies were just starting to hit me. You know, I may just print this out and read it every time I want to mindlessly eat. Or maybe you can market this post as a diet aide. :P
"(here's a career you could threaten your child with if he/she doesn't apply himself/herself in school)"
That's IT!!!!
I just watched a documentary called 'The Future of Food' as well as researching the stuff they put in vaccinations.
If we really knew all that they were putting in our food, we might not think this is so gross. Don't get me wrong, eating placenta wouldn't be top of my menu list but I think a lot of people would make different food choices if we really knew!
LOL....
Yeah...that's pretty creepy. Fortunately for me, I will never know, for I left my placenta at the hospital.....both times. :-)
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