To feed my placenta to the dogs?

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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 ?!?!

There was a time it looked like I was going to have my lower leg removed, if I was a fucking idiot I could have given it too my dogs to chew on.

I had fused non identical twin placenta. I was a medical mystery and midwives from a far was coming to look at it for research reasons. I should have had it bottled!

My sister unexpectedly gave birth at home, my Mum delivered DN and when the midwife finally arrived she told them to take the placenta down the end of the garden and burn it. 😬

No. You're about to bring a baby home and the placenta will smell/taste similar to baby.
Think hard. I really wouldn't do it.

Oh dear, there always one who has to be a bit of a c%^t on an extremely hypothetical thread 😂🤔🙄

I had to put up with my DIL's placenta being cooked in the kitchen then powdered and placed in capsules as she believed there were health benefits. This was in LALA land.

I'll never forget the smell, oh god just thinking back is making me nauseous. (not envy!)

At charolais

No. You're about to bring a baby home and the placenta will smell/taste similar to baby.
Think hard. I really wouldn't do it. That's what I was thinking too.

All of these replies are ridiculous! There is no way your dogs will "get a taste for human blood"! That's honestly so silly.
Feed it to your dogs if you want, it's full of nutrients that fed your baby.

Eat it yourself!

Congrats on your forthcoming baby BTW. Hope it goes well!

*AintNobodyHereButUsChickens
It’s human tissue, I’m amazed that it’s deemed acceptable for humans to eat it themselves when cannibalism is illegal confused it doesn’t make sense to me.

It's definitely not illegal!

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/law/shortcuts/2015/dec/16/eating-people-is-wrong-but-is-it-against-the-law

Bloody heloves op that’s put me right off my roast chicken

@TrickyD the midwives put mine in a biohazard bag to be taken off for incineration, they didn't leave it in the house when they left.

I was talking 1972, biohazard bags not too common then, I guess. The Placenta Man and his van turned up pretty smartly,

Should add, it's the equivalent to eating the yolk of an egg.
It is NOT cannibalism. That's ridiculous.

@TrickyD ah, so what did you need to do with it until he turned up? Would he just go around the county daily collecting the placentas and then take them for incineration?

A placenta is totally different to an actual human person. Of course the dog wouldn't get the taste of human flesh.

Loads of people feed their dogs raw. Same thing really.

Mash a placenta is a human organ (in this case the baby's). Are you sure that it wouldn't smell like the baby to the dog? Really, really sure?

WHY though? It's so bizarre. Why give your placenta to your dog to eat? It's actually grim.

Straight out of the Ramsay Bolton Guide to Childbirth, OP.

What next. 'HV was snippy with me. Aibu to flay her alive?'

I’d quite like to bury mine in the garden and plant a tree over it but I’m a bit worried about the foxes!

I've been a vegetarian since I was 14 ( I had DC at 33 and 36)

I did consider asking for my placenta to eat - ethically and morally not wrong in my eyes because nothing died to yield it.

In the end I didn't because DS was a lengthy birth (knackered) and DD was a bullet from a gun.(shell shocked )

It's no more grim than anything else we eat.

Use it as a loofa in the bath, don’t waste it on sanitary towel eating dogs.

Lijkk - except it’s come out of your fanjo.....