Has anyone eaten their placenta?

[Mylittlepuds]

Sorry if this has been done. I'm just curious. I suspect it costs a fortune to get it whatevered into pills - and I'd be considered mental by friends and family if I did - so probably out for me. Yet I'm intrigued...

Apparently it's good for the plants in the garden, I cannot repeat what I said to DH when he suggested this (mid labour, may I add)!

Yes ... But eating your own bits... Does that count? Veggiebalism?

elfycat Im pretty sure they do that to deter predetors as opposed to it being good for them. That said, its got to be full of iron??

No. I kinda wanted to prod it though.

Then I had a haemorrhage, so was quite distracted.

Placenta encapsulation, 'tis called. Don't think it costs vast sums. One of my friends does it for clients - she's a doula.

At least it's not a pâté! You could almost convince yourself it's just another multivitamin capsule.

My midwife didn't mention using them for food. The June one was given to my husband after he'd been told to start a bonfire for it in the garden and the March one was given to him for the Parkray fire in the lounge (wrapped in newspaper, of course).

I don't think he ever touched raw meat being prepared for meals and didn't like 'wobbly' food like jelly or scrambled egg or blancmange so I don't think he liked the job much. I could have done it but I know he couldn't have done the job I had done.

Tea and toast did me nicely ta very much :)

I'm not in the slightest bit hippyish but I did have a home birth with my DD and kept the placenta.
It is buried in the garden, under a rose bush. It didn't feel right just throwing it away.
I think they have burials for them in Iran but I may have made that up.

Best toast in the whole world - post partum toast uummmmm

-other than Betty's tea room--

@ post-partum toast.

It was the best toast ever :)

No, didn't even see it thankfully. I'm not partial to offal anyway. Bleeuurgh

After giving birth to a 10lb 11oz baby the midwife showed me the placenta. It completely covered one of those styrofoam trays and weighed close to 2 and half pounds. She said it was why I was so exhausted as it had been taking all my nutrients. The veins on it were massive. Then she said "think of the massive wound this has left behind!" That was when I spewed everywhere.

I don't get the squeamishness. Or the mildly irritating "dickhead" bit.

It's not something I could probably be bothered to sort out - but on a concept would-I level, the placenta is made by you and is entirely bespoke for you. There's probably nothing else that you'll ever come across that is able to provide a rich source of vitamins and nutrients designed pretty much exclusively for you.

It's weird we're so far removed from our own nature - we happily take biosynthetic versions of natural things, yet something that is entirely designed for us is odd?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I wish I'd seen dd1's. Two midwives and dp said "OH MY GOD!" I said, "What?" They all said "THE PLACENTA!" I said, "Is it alright? Is there something wrong with it?" and they all said, "IT'S MASSIVE!" Then one of the midwives said, "Do you want it?" and I said "no" but I wish I had said, "but can you prop me up to have a look at it?"
When I was about 3 years old (a million years ago before health & safety was invented) my parents found it very hard to drag me away from some railings, on the other side of which was an abbatoir yard which contained a magnificent 6 foot pile of steaming entrails. I loved it. I remember it clearly to this day. How can I have missed the ENORMOUS placenta that made the midwives boggle?

kayno Ive always said that. Tea and toast after giving birth is like food from the Gods. Never before or since was it ever as good.

I asked to see mine.... Spur of the moment when I saw the dr carrying it with two hands.

I then said 'is that a weird question' and he said 'not at all, its fascinating' and explained which bits were veins etc. Was very interesting.

BUT I couldn't have eaten it even though I was so hungry by that point I'd have eaten a scabby horse.

I'd have eaten it ... but... what wine to choose? One isn't a philistine!

When they brought the tea and toast in after my last birth dh dived straight on it and ate it all. The mw was speechless. He did it after all three births actually. But she was the only one to tell him off and stand guard when she brought more in :o I didn't mind as I was looking after my little Ribena berry. (She was a deep shade of purple).

Fucking hell

Watching cbeebies and they are teaching about where babies come from! They had a fake womb and everything

Wha?

I've seen a doll delivered via a sleeve jumper. Was funny to see the dads faces. :o

I couldn't eat it. The midwife offered to show it to me after ds was born, but I felt so ill after the birth I declined.

My plan was to, but ended up not having a home birth and it all being very medicalised instead.