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 ?!?!

If you do go in for your scheduled c-section, ask if they participate in the Anthony Nolan placenta and cord blood donation scheme. I did this with DS last year and was really happy that my having an ELCS resulted in doing a good thing for someone.

Misses point of thread entirely

Gummygoddess, we were living in Leicester at the time, so I dare say he had enough placentas to collect from city addresses without extending his rounds into the county.
I was in bed when he called so did not note where placenta was reposing, but I have just asked DH, who thinks the midwife put it in a bag. Maybe not a biohazard one though.
DH has a habit of making up daft songs. He used to croon, to the tune of Candyman, something like "Placenta man can, when he takes it in his van, it makes the wheels go round" but he can't remember the rest of it.

rest Ah yes, the fanjo. That famed portal to hell.

PS OP is having a c-section, so it wouldn't get any fanjo germs on it anyway.

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

and because of that I wouldn't be offering it round, maybe slice a bit off every now and then as some guilty pleasure

but DS had a pooh in his amniotic fluid so I guess that would be a no-go

I've seen some really pretty placenta paintings... maybe we should print with it instead? 🤔

Pinterest has a vast host of placenta art... I truly haven't lived until now!

You could make the cord into a bone shape and let it dry. They your dog would have a lovely chew toy

ICjump or they could play tug of war with it?

After the shits our dog had from eating the placentas after whelping I wouldn't.

(I did try to stop her, but she was too quick for me)

Placenta portrait of your lovely baby. Special paint

If you ask to keep the placenta you can, even if you give birth in a hospital. I took both of mine home and buried them in the garden. I couldn't face eating them but didn't like the idea of wasting the nutrients so grew vegetables over the spot where I buried them.

My dd1’s placenta was planted with a tree on my parents’ farm, which was bought by a well known celebrity a couple of years later. She has no idea that she is the proud owner of my placenta.

Never mind the placenta, wait until the crusty cord falls off and the dogs are after it like a bit of stinky jerky.

I've got an placenta buried in the garden and one still in the freezer. Could defrost it as an Easter treat for the doggy... a kind of "thanks for putting up with the new screaming baby Goofy paws..."

Good luck with the forthcoming birth OP...

And two cords still MIA!

Freeze it and feed it to baby! Recycling at its best!

Dog might eat baby if you give it the placenta?! I’m dying here! Dogs eat their own placentas, you’re meant to stop them having lots, I guess it’s like offal, too much and my dogs shit their brains out. Portion it up and feed gradually if it’s going to the dog.

I can't help but laugh at the posters who seriously think the dog will develop a taste for babies from (in theory) eating the placenta!

Do dogs who are fed a raw diet habitually maul live cows?

Also, babies don't smell like placenta. They're contained within the amniotic sac, which yes, ruptures, but usually at the cervix end.

Biology, people!