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Eating the placenta

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mush4brains · 18/04/2007 21:01

Has anyone eaten their placenta, is so how did you cook it?
I didnt eat my 1st, despite midwife telling me it was a fine sepcimen!!! Am wondering about 2nd though!!!

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fuzzywuzzy · 18/04/2007 21:07

no don't do it bleurghhhhhh.... alternatively if you must, cook as you would kidneys, and other offal or pate it, I've heard it goes well on crackers, and you could invite your friends round.... I don't know you in RL do I???

Loopymumsy · 18/04/2007 21:12

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Hilllary · 18/04/2007 21:13

Make sure the dog doesn't feast on it first

madmarchhare · 18/04/2007 21:14

You could plant it a lentily weaving type ceremony if you cant face eating it when it comes to it.

DimpledThighs · 18/04/2007 21:16

did you see that hugh fernally-whinngton-diddly-doo-dha programme on it? He ate it.

Beauregard · 18/04/2007 21:18

It is great sandwhiched between a couple of Jacobs or stirfryed with uncle Bens.
My personal favourite is when we get the chocolate fountain out.

PrettyCandles · 18/04/2007 21:22

I've heard it's rather like liver, and should be cooked in the same way.

TBH I'm too tired and busy to be frying liver at that stage, so, unless someone else would be willing to store and prepare it for me, placenta pate would not appear on my menu.

What wine would you serve with it?

Loopymumsy · 18/04/2007 21:26

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Hathor · 18/04/2007 21:27

I thought you were all vegetarians not cannibals.

Hilllary · 18/04/2007 21:27

Well at least you can say its home grown I saw the program too on how to cook it, the cheff made it into a pate on crackers, I couldnt believe how all the guests ate it.

Spidermama · 18/04/2007 21:28

Reeeeeespect to you if you can do it mush. I draw the earth mother line somewhat in advance of placenta consumption. I plant mine in the garden then plant a bush on top ..... I say I don't eat it because I'm vegetarian but really it's because I'm too grossed out by the idea.

lulumama · 18/04/2007 21:35

is it time to bring out the lotus birth threads??

loopy...there is a recipe for placenta essencce which is supposed to counteract PND, so what you ahve heard is similar !

don;t know if it is true... never saw first one, as emergency cs. had a good look at second one, but no desire to take it home and eat it !

let us know what you decide !

Hathor · 18/04/2007 21:37

Oh that reminds me there is a testament on the mooncup website about how great it is to have one and how useful it is for collecting blood for painting with.

Klaw · 18/04/2007 21:37

Can't face liver so can't contemplate placenta, would love to plant it in garden after an abbreviated Lotus birth and have heard that you can get it made into capsules to swallow whole, thereby removing the ick factor somewhat. Don't know if there's anywhere in UK that would do that tho....

love Haggis so maybe I could force myself.... No! can't, won't but love the idea that it reduces PND risk as I am prone to depression.

Maybe?

fuzzywuzzy · 18/04/2007 21:38

I hear it freezes well, incase you want to hold off on the cooking/pateing right after giving birth....I also hear it tastes like chicken, but then apparantly so does crocodile

Klaw · 18/04/2007 21:38

I look forward to AF so I can use my Mooncup!

No more sanitary landfill leaves my house!

PrettyCandles · 18/04/2007 21:38

Ah, but is it cannibalism if you eat your own placenta?

Is it then cannibalism if you bite and swallow your fingernails/pick your nose and eat it/'swallow' (ahem)?

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PrettyCandles · 18/04/2007 21:39

It's true about crocodile. My dad says it tastes something between chicken and veal, depending on how it's been cooked. He has eaten crocodile.

Hathor · 18/04/2007 21:40

What about freezing it and then using it when you get to the weaning stage?

Spidermama · 18/04/2007 21:41

Guffaw at painting with memstrual blood.
MN can always be relied upon to push those boundaries in my knowlege.

Klaw · 18/04/2007 21:43

My abbreviated Lotus birth is to keep placenta attached for a few hours whilst we get to knwo each other. As animals chew through their cords and don't carry placenta around with them I can see that perhaps a proper Lotus birth would be a step too far, but not being in any hurry to sever the cord sounds ok.

It is totally impractical to try to dress and keep baby warm in winter around a cord still attached to placenta, surely?

Yes, I think I'll want to keep it attached for a little while whist we get to know each other and so I can see it, I have no idea what either of my first two looked like...

Then we'll plant it under a tree!

chocolateface · 18/04/2007 21:44

So if placentas ae so great to eat, why don't we eat animal placentas?

Hathor · 18/04/2007 21:46

Klaw - there is obviously a gap in the market for newborn+placenta-grows. I could knit you one.

Klaw · 18/04/2007 21:48

Hathor, aren't you supposed to use frozen foods within a month? No, I wouldn't eat it or feed it to my baby 7 or 8 months down the line... Like your debating style!

Also, I don't paint with blood

Prettycandles, cannibalism? Snot? just don't go there!

Anyone know about the capsules thing?

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