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...

I reaaaaally don't like the thought of it but I want to be a midwife so need to get my head around it ha!

I made a topic about lotus birth a few weeks ago. That's really interesting too!

See, I totally get the concept of eating your placenta. I just can't figure out a way of doing it that I can stomach (excuse the pun).

Why would someone eat their placenta?

I saw mine both times. Massive things! Fascinating. Veins and everything. I didn't find it disgusting or anything, but I can't for the life of me think why it's a good idea to eat the bugger.

If I was starving, I would. hell, if I was starving, I'd eat yours but apart from that? Why would you? Honest question.

Apparently it is full of nutrients which help you recover quicker from childbirth, like iron.

And (anecdotally) I've heard it can stop you getting all teary on day 3 - I think the theory is it contains hormones and it is hormone levels crashing which cause you to feel all emotional.

Perhaps I should change my name to PlacentaIsNotPudding. Hmm, I quite like that.

Full of iron and nutrients - I think animals eat theirs as a boost after giving birth.

sod that. I'd pop myself some sanatagen

I suppose since other animals do it, it's probably the natural/instinctive thing to do, makes sense. Nature doesn't waste anything. but nah. Could no more do it than have a kidney taken out and fry it up with some onions

I actually growled at DH as his hand strayed toward my post-push toast.

Bastard paid me back by bringing me a fruit basket the next day when I specifically demanded requested the rawest possible cow slices on squeaky white bread with horseradish. Never has a pear been thrown so hard, or with such feeling, as on that day.

What Orenishii said

Animal eat the placenta of their young after giving birth because its scent can entice predators to the fact that there's a juicy defenceless newborn and a weak adult nearby.
Placenta, once the baby has been born is a waste product, Therefore BBBLEEEUUGGHHH

i had a quick peak as i was being sewn up stitches inside and out with ds1 did nt look too appetising with ds2 ventouse delivery and they whipped it away i cant imagine why you would want to eat it to be honest

"Veggies can eat placenta in the same way vegan babies can have breast milk."

There is no such thing in my view as a vegan baby! Only a parent who decides that their child will be vegan. And I am sure that is not even comparable to eating a placenta, which is to all intents and purposes a piece of human meat. It has blood in it.. it was a living organ at one point.

I never.

I do wonder what it would taste like though! I wonder if it would taste like steak?

I didn't get to see DD1's and felt a bit sad about it. I was haemorrhaging so they were panicking about getting a drip in.

I saw DD2's and the MW talked me through it. So fascinating!

I saw all 3 of my placentas. I contemplated burying them in the garden and planting a tree on top but as DH pointed out it would be one of those things I would never get round to doing and I'd have 3 placentas in my freezer for years.

My boss has stored his son's placenta in the freezer for Christmas. I kid you not.

He once said something about it being in with the chicken nuggets, which turned my stomach like nothing has ever done before.

I know I'm a wimp but I haven't even been to his house since because I'm scared the placenta will come crawling out of the freezer at me.

So if a vegan/vegetarian chews their nails, or the skin around or bites their lips or chews at a piece of cheek they're eating meat? It's not meat by any definition of something being maimed or killed.

IPEN do a basic home encapsulation kit, with loads of instructions for £18. You can also hire the fancy kit placentanetwork.com/placenta/DIY-Hire-Kits.asp

I encapsulated mine at home with the basic kit, it's a bit of a faff, but that is why people charge. When finished the pills are just like any other capsule, the placenta is reduced to powder.

I also once saw a recipe for chocolate truffles, made with the powder.

What a waste of chocolate.

I bet it's a bit like liver. Or heart maybe.

Oh that's ok then.

Still no sale.

I imagined it to taste like liver and I love that so don't think it would've bothered me tbh.

I know someone who buried their placenta and planted a tree on top. A fox dug it up the next day. Imagine having to clean up the garden!

nope! but i worked with a vet who ate horse testicles that she had castrated! (or at least she said she did, i never saw her)

I have eaten sheep's testicles.