To feed my placenta to the dogs?

[readytopopp]

I am due to have a c-section later this week but had pain all day... I've never been in labour before so am joking around with DP that I'm going to have a homebirth if taking a bath doesn't calm these pains down. DP asked what I'd do with the placenta and I said give it to the dogs which he was beyond horrified at

In all seriousness I don't see the issue with feeding the dogs my placenta rather than chucking it away... very nutritious... makes sense to me! I'm sure they'd think it was a tasty treat!

AIBU ?!?!

But surely the baby wouldn't taste of placenta? I thought human meat was more like chicken or pork? Placenta looks like liver or organ meat? 🤔

I had a HB and I asked to keep my placenta.
It was in a bio hazard bag in the freezer for months then after about 6 months we defrosted it and planted it under a new tree linked to DD's name. It's grown very nicely so far!

It's a new one on me, but I'm sure the dogs would enjoy it. There is a protocol on placenta disposal though so if they don't like it you can't just chuck it in the trash!

As a side note, just checking you've called your midwife? Assuming there is a medical need for the section, you should probably go in to be checked if you think you are in labour.

dontbuyanewcashmere my parents buried their cat under a tree and it grew huge!

The plancenta is grown from the same dna as your baby - think of it as another one of your baby's organs. How similar it and your baby might smell to a dog I have no idea. But personally I'd not want to risk it.

bangintoones I'm in the bath and pains have stopped for now. Maybe it's the distraction of this thread which has really made me laugh so far 😁

I've told baby he isn't allowed to come. I have work booked in tomorrow & Tuesday so he mustn't arrive til Wednesday (joys of being self employed)

barbarianmum I had no idea it was from same dna as baby! I thought your body just grew it when pregnant 😮 well... I've learnt something new today!

Some people keep it and consume it themselves or send it off to be made into pills of some sort. So I think there must be some leeway to keep it.

I 100% don't believe in the taste for human flesh thing. Yes, wild animals learn humans are an easy target and will use us as such but as a slab of meat in a bowl, nah. I've fed dogs raw meat of various animals and they haven't treated the live animals any different. But I think it's illegal, not sure but I've heard that somewhere the dogs will be destroyed and owners fined.

So no, don't feed it to the dogs. Save if for yourself, apparently it helps with milk supply or something....

I don’t see why it would be especially nutritious- the placenta is essentially a filter that takes things your baby needs to get rid of from its blood and gets rid via your bloodstream - the idea of it being some sort of super food is something dreamt up by people who want to sell you pills made of it.

My first few pads when I got home from hospital must have had lochia, or some placenta bits on. The foxes tore our bins to shreds to eat them. Smell of blood!
DH thought it was the newborn nappies, but it stopped when my bleeding stopped. Hideous.

Maybe animals instinctively eat it as they are so hungry after giving birth 🤔

Animals eat it partly for the nutrition but also to get rid of it so it doesn't attract predators.

restofthetimes dog1 would be exactly the same... he loves blood. If I cut myself he's like some kind of sucker fish 🤢

Mine was humungous. Your dogs will get fat!

You can but it'll give them the shits. And they don't chew it well and it comes out all stringy at the other end. Makes a right mess.

Boke

I was a 1960s home birth and my late father would bring up, every single birthday, how he was left to deal with my placenta and in the end made a bonfire in the garden and burnt it. He made it sound like it was a hideous ordeal but it must have been quite ritualistic.

ohfucko so it's best to stir fry it then for ease of chewing? I used to cook the dogs dinner every day before I was pregnant. They disliked anything raw. Bloody juices ok but not raw meat

Cannibalism isn't illegal.

I wouldn't - it stinks - i mean really and truely honks - there is no way you want that shooting two ways out of your dog,especially if youre the one whos cleaning it up!

If it had occurred to me to do it, I would have. DDog would have loved it (eats tripe happily) and I’m sure that she wouldn’t have been eyeing me up for the next instalment afterwards!

I'd feed it raw.

Just reread my earlier post. Our dogs eat sheep placentas - I didn't mean they'd eaten any of mine!!

readytopopp: What if I pan fry it first?"

For some reason I'm now hearing Antony Hopkins murmuring "with fava beans and a nice glass of chianti".

hairyball 😂😂😂😂

I'm pretty sure the 'taste of human flesh' thing is an urban myth...

Dogs I grew up with occasionally licked bloody wounds - in a caring manner - if we weren't paying attention. The dogs were, of course, shooed away and wounds were disinfected (the behaviour was not encouraged!). Our dogs never developed a taste for our/human flesh...