Placenta

[mother2b]

Just wanted to know your opinions,

I was told that it was very good for mother to eat placenta after giving birth because its rich in the nutrients that help you recover?
was also told that the hospital offers to cook if for you?

Just wanted to know opinions and experiances for me to make up my mind whether or not i should(not sure about the thought but apparently tastes very good)

Have googled.

I know- I was REALLY shocked.

Its there about 200 x isnt it????

Oh for godsake Donnie. Have just popped back onto this thread and read your posts. Get over yourself FGS. It was an off the cuff remark!

Seeing as though my friends and family are made up of a chinese girl, an african man, an indian girl I hardly think I am racist. My cousin is also married to a black man and they have two mixed race children. I am not happy that you would cast aspertions on my character whe you know FUCK ALL about me.

Have spoken to my chinese friend who laughed and said the PC police (erm yes Donnie that would be you) actually make situations out of non-existent problems.

I eat a chinky. I eat an indian. OMG....I even eat a thai occasionally. It's a turn of phrase.

So excuse my french but fuck off and take your head out your arse.

Oh my god donnie have you never heard of chinky get a grip woman, racist my arse its people like you who start things that dont need to be started.

I can believe that people may have not realised that chinky is an unpleasant term to use instead of Chinese but can't believe the nasty comments regarding this being pointed out

F&Z - From Donnie: "err...'chinky' ?

when did that become acceptable parlance? sounds pretty racist to me actually.Care to answer, Wilkie?"

I don't 'care' to answer anything. I do not like the inference that I am racist and yes, I am exceptionally annoyed and pissed off about it. Sorry if you found my comments nasty but I am

But you were using a term that a lot of people find racist

do they just have to suck it up, then?

I'm with Franny. 'Chinky' is racist. Your Chinese friend might not mind it, others might well. Sorry but you and laughalot were unjustifiably rude to donnie.

F&Z - would it not have been more appropriate for her to then have put 'Wilkie, I find the term chinky racist, would you mind not using it?'

Anyway, this has, once again, totally lost the point of the whole thread and moved away from the OP (yet again - seems to happen a lot with MN nowadays).

Can't be arsed to argue about it anymore.

If I offended anyone with the term chinky I apologise, it is not something I have evern considered as my mate is chinese and refers to it as chinky herself.

Donnie: suggest you think before you type next time.

Good night.

And back onto the subject of placentas....
I dont want to boast but mine was huge - bigger than the 8lb5oz baby I pushed out.
I was in active labour (pushing) for over 2 hours as I was waiting for aneathatist who never came then was too far gone to stop. Anyway, the midwives were all amazed at the size of it. Apparently the longer you push, the more it fills with blood so the bigger it gets. I was really amazed at the size of it. Wish I'd taken a photo too now!

LOL at Donnie being asked to think before she types next time

I never got to see much of my placentas. They didnt seem as big as i thought they'd be.

i read an article when i was pg (can't remember where now, think it was probably the Grauniad) that said that middle class people wanting to imitate "tribal" cultures and days of yore by eating their placenta were a bit dim (though the writer said it in better language). "tribal" people don't eat their placenta. cats and dogs do, but they're animals. you wouldn't eat raw rabbit would you?

this is an interesting article, pretty much confirms what i already knew. don't eat your placenta. eat plenty of iron-rich foods and drink plenty of fluids after giving birth. and there you go!

I hear that women in some cultures actually carry around the placenta until it falls off and then eat it.

WTF?!
That would be like carrying 2 babies around!
What about if they had a mutliple birth?
OMG, I am so pleased I didnt have to do that in my culture! Imagine the comments you'd get in Tescos..."well, my placenta was much nicer than that..." etc!

that is called lotus birth

explained here!

I thought part of the point of eating the placenta was to ingest hormones which can stave off post natal depression. You probably don't quite as many hormones in a piece of liver from tesco's

need to find the recipe for placenta essence......

When I worked in a rural hospital in India years ago we had to try and stop the feral dogs coming in and nicking the women's placentas after deliveries - unfortunately we weren't always successful, and it was quite a common sigtht to see a scabby dog trotting down the corridor with a placenta in it's mouth, followed by irate nurses. Thought I'd just gross you all out!

Yuk!!

I Looked at mine but in no way was i going to eat it, or serve to family or friends

Just found this thread and wondered whether people still held the same opinions nearly 10 years on.

Still gross, IMO. It's an internal organ. I wouldn't eat my appendix if they took it out.

Yep gross.

Wonder if any of those involved in the fight earlier in this thread still around? Blast from the past 😆

I recently visited my daughter and found her 17month old placenta still in the freezer....unsure how to dispose of it....I suggested planting it by a rose bush ;)

I took mine in dehydrated capsule form, as did a few doctor friends. I don't know if it had any real effect - I didn't have pnd at least, and I was absolutely full of energy - but even if it didn't, the placebo effect did me just fine :)