I am interested in making a placenta smoothie has anyone else done this??

[Smileysar1]

I've done lots of research and really keen to make a placenta smoothie after the birth. I've found lots of recipes. But nowhere does it say how to store the placenta or how many days to drink it for. I know that research is minimal but just wondered if you or anyone you know have made placenta smoothies and what you did?! Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

I wouldn't know where to start, sure there will be a website with all of this info.

Is it truly, really, absolutely necessary? There is only very scant real peer reviewed research on this, women have birthed for ages without eating their placenta, and not mums and babies tend to thrive without all this. Why do you actually wish to do this?

Honestly why would you? What benefit do you think it will bring you?

Er no. I wasn't remotely interested in seeing something that had been inside me - never mind actually eating it!

No. No I haven't.

Gosh. Why? (genuine question)

I have absolutely no interest in doing this. It sounds utterly revolting.

Not it it were the only source of nourishment on the face of the earth would I contemplate it! However, I imagine your first trick will be to prevent it being chucked into clinical waste (assuming you give birth in hospital), and I suppose bag it up and refrigerate it asap. Sure, it's just a (highly contaminated) piece of meat. Why a smoothie? Is it going to be "served" "raw"? What do you feel you will gain from it?

I think someone's taking the piss !

Well, I am intrigued. What do you blend it with? Placenta and strawberry? Placenta and banana? Surely it's meaty - would you put beef in a smoothie? If not, then why on earth force yourself to drink down a bodily emission that has done its amazing job already? I agree with PPs saying that there is not enough research to show ingesting or imbibing your placenta has health benefits.

It doesn't sound very hygienic or healthy at all.

They're not taking the piss at all! Wish I had kept my placenta, would have got it encapsulated. Can't say I'd be able to stomach a smoothie, but if you can then good for you. Supposed to be great for new mums.

Eating my placenta would have felt as natural and healthy as eating my bogies or some other fairly gross bodily waste product.

I'm amazed people think it's so weird. I though eating it was what loads of people did nowadays? Maybe I just know a load of hippies. My mate fried hers up, said it tasted like liver.

With a nice bottle of Chianti, I'll bet.

Just fry it up with bacon and onions.

Pickledparsnip, good name, you sound it !

Jesus

Why?

There's a mumsnetter who's done it. She was on that Panarama programme.
I'll dig through my history and see if I can recall her name.

I'd look up YouTube.

You can make a nice placenta and vegetable soup, or a curry with it. I'd add a bit of chicken to it though. Maybe a steak and placenta pie?

Although disgusting and no proof as to any benefits of eating it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27307476

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/2316860-Childbirth-All-or-Nothing-BBC1

It was pinkfuzzmonkey.
Here's the thread.

I love the idea of a placenta rogan josh, but would you not say, Zippey, that whizzing it into a mud-coloured shake with organic wheatgrass and kale would be more the thing?

I live in South Asia and have just had DS2. The nurse came up to me on the ward and said here are your pain killers and here is your placenta, and handed me a take away box. I was a bit :0 but here it's against their religion to destroy any part of the pregnancy. She told me to get my Dh to bury it.

Yeah, all the time

Chianti essential accompaniment! That I do agree with