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OH MY GOD - if this was you wouldn't you just be private about it......more TC ideas!

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tortoiseshell · 18/04/2006 10:54

\link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4918012.stm\look here} - am due to give birth any day, if dh suggests this, think I might be sick!

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MamaMaiasaura · 18/04/2006 12:54

I am not one for believing everything that is written.. but he seems to have been very bizarre of late. Does anyone know much about this silence thing/scientolgy. Am confused here but it sounds like he is so emmersed in whatever it is he is losing touch with reality.

Re eating placenta (which i wouldnt want to do myself) I would have thought it would be of more benefit to the mum in terms of nutrients esp if bf.. unless that is his next statement and he is going to bf himself (thinking of meet the parents - fake boob).

Gingerbear · 18/04/2006 13:04

All by himself?
Placentas are huge - like a super family sized pizza.
The greedy sod might have shared it out.

mears · 18/04/2006 13:08

\link{http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm\remember this?}

Rhubarb · 18/04/2006 13:29

Don't think there's anything wrong with eating your own placenta! After all, the baby's been eating from it! It's probably very nice and you might as well make use of it!

I sense I'm in a minority though! Or maybe I'm just weird!

Hausfrau · 18/04/2006 13:30

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Munz · 18/04/2006 13:32

hasn't she been due 'any day now' for about a month?

Gillian76 · 18/04/2006 13:42

No thanks.

Mears, have you ever been asked to bag someone's placenta to take home? Suppose it's unlikely that someone planning to eat their placenta would be giving birth in hospital though. Or is that stereotypical?!

mears · 18/04/2006 13:44

Yes I have but usually for burial.

harpsichordcarrier · 18/04/2006 13:48

I was going to take mine home but I signed it away for medical research
I would n't have eaten it because I am too squeamish but I would have liked to have buried it
I think he is taking the P though. I am liking Hausfrau's theory

Furball · 18/04/2006 13:51

I remember watching Hugh fernley-whittinstall or whatever his name is, trying to come up with a decent recipe as one of his neighbours wanted to do a 'special' meal for her friends and family to celebrate the birth. Bleugh, at eating my own, but one of my friends - yuck! I think they came up with a Pate and everyone said it was lovely.

kleggie · 18/04/2006 13:56

Just listened to them discussing it on Radio Two (eating the placenta not nutty ol' TC).

A midwife from the birth centre came on and said that in her 30yr career she had known two women who ate their placentas. In one case, the woman had had a homebirth and lost a lot of blood. She refused to go to the hospital for a transfusion and so colleagues suggested that the midwife cook the placenta and give it to her. She did and the change was apparently phenomenal. Instant pick-me-up it would seem.

OTOH, lots of men phoned in and said 'it's cannibalism, she should be arrested (I kid you not)' etc etc.

We are the only mammals that don't do it. I am not saying I would do it myself, but I would seriously consider it.

harpsichordcarrier · 18/04/2006 13:58

cannibalism
yes that's right, my dog used to do it. And lick the membranes off. I had forgotten about that

PinkTulips · 18/04/2006 14:04

when dd was born the midwife asked us if we wanted to bring home the placenta to plant or eat, she said alot of people do eat them, can't say i had the stomach for it myself but it is completely natural. it's what nature intended us to do, just look at any mother animal giving birth. it replenishes the nutrients lost during childbirth so the mother animal isn't forced to hunt too soon after the birth. we don't need to do it these days but theres certainly nothing disgusting about it.

all that said, i could barely keep down the toast they gave me for several days so i don't think i would have handled placenta very well!

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tortoiseshell · 18/04/2006 14:54

I had so many funny looks when people asked 'what's in the yellow box on the doorstep' after dd was born and I replied 'the placenta' - everyone gave the yellow box a wide berth....

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Caligula · 18/04/2006 15:03

Funny how people are horrified by the idea of eating it but not by wearing it in face creams. Didn't I read somewhere that some of those over-priced face-creams contain placenta? Someone must know about this?

Janh · 18/04/2006 15:06

I love mears recipe - "green will add colour" - well let's hope so, hey?

Ledodgy · 18/04/2006 15:07

TC was talking on something this morning and he was joking another case of the media mis-reporting. IMO I don't actually think there's anything wrong with eating the placenta if that's what you want to do.

cataloguequeen · 18/04/2006 15:07

Yes, thats true Cali its also an ingredient in hair products and conditioners..

Caligula · 18/04/2006 15:10

Oh yuk. I bet I put them on my hair.

I wonder if those men would feel as motivated to ring in about the creams and hair products?

madmarchhare · 18/04/2006 15:10

Wouldnt do it myself, but I am surprised that theyre arent more lentil weaver types on here who would be up for it. Right down the MN street I would have thought, no?

staceym11 · 18/04/2006 15:17

i can understand why as it is full of nutrients and stuff, but....er........not for me!

Caligula · 18/04/2006 15:27

I'm not horrified by it but wouldn't bother, tbh unless it was the kind of situation kleggie describes, where it would make an immediate impact on health.

I'd probably eat it if someone gave it to me all cooked up in a recipe and didn't tell me what it was and I thought I was eating liver or somethign!

ThePrisoner · 18/04/2006 18:32

I watched a documentary a few years ago where parents held a "naming" ceremony for their new baby, and the placenta had been made into pate and other such things. I seem to remember some debate as to whether the vegetarian guests would partake!

pebblemum · 18/04/2006 18:55

I watched that doc too but only because my cousin and his wife were guests at that party and I am disgusted to say they did eat some of it. I would throw up at the thought of eating my own but this was their friend's daughters placenta so not even their own flesh and blood-excuse the pun.

Fair enough if people want to do it but it is definately not for me

Pruni · 18/04/2006 19:01

Am pmsl at mears' link.

It says "Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight."

Then the first ingredient is 1 to 3 lbs of placenta.

So, if you've got 1lb, that's 1/6 of a 6-pounder.

If you've got 3lbs of placenta...? Aaaargh! Grin