Eating the placenta

[mush4brains]

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!!!

I had a lovely Dutch midwife for DS3's birth who was able to do natural third stage which was a great relief as I had retained placenta with DS2 which necessitated a rather grisly trip to theatre...

Said Dutch midwife took DH on a kind of "tour of the placenta" which was kind, and he didn't look even vaguely close to throwing up .

I didn't even see mine. Now I feel cheated in retrospect. Wonder what happened to it.
Mind you I haven't got any rose-bushes anyway

Great idea, Hathor! Can you knit? I haven't for yonks! Maybe we should set up a business! Don't think we've got a big enough market tho.....

Thanks for this, I'm having such a laugh (but with added seriousness of considering third stage management, which I never did with my first two)

I was give a tour of my placenta by my bitch of a midwife. I really wasn't interested, and just wanted to see my baby, but was too scared to ask for him and pretended I was really interested.The funny thing was, It was much more effort getting the placenta out than the baby. It felt like I'd waited 9 months to give birth to a placenta. Maybe I should have given it a name.

Lotus Birth

OMG she made a 'red velvet placenta bag', and lends it out to friends who want a Lotus birth.
Now, there's a gap in the market ...

The really lovely midwife I had with DD didn't cut the cord for about 10 minutes. I really apreciated it. Unless Gap started doing matching baby & placenta outfits, I really couldn't leave it on for upto 10 days.

Prettycandles, that's what I read! I've got Dr Sarah Buckley's book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering as part of my Doula Training essential reading and i think it's wonderful. Being medically trained Sarah has described how hormones work in labour and has helped me see just how well our bodies are designed to give birth. It's just unfortunate that the medical interventions designed to save us are too over used and so creat more problems than they were designed to fix! Some of the articles on her site are in her book so you can see what she's like before you buy.

Also the Birthlove site mentioned in your link is no more and it was BRILLIANT At least I thought so, helped me avoid induction....