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mother2b · 20/06/2007 13:08

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)

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SkiptonLass2 · 16/01/2016 16:16

It's a fad. The placenta is an incredible organ but there's zero justification to eat it after birth.
By then it's done it's job and it's effectively starting to degrade. So it's like eating offal that's a bit past its best.
Your average wild animal is always looking for protein of any kind- eating the placenta is a way of getting some and also of disposing of meat that's going to rot and attract predators.
There are no magical properties, special magic enzymes etc, it's just meat.

So unless you have kwashiorkor or are surrounded by hyenas, I'd go for a nice rare steak instead

Toadsrevisited · 16/01/2016 16:24

Zombie thread.

KellyBuckley · 17/01/2016 13:21

I did a pregnancy test which came out negative, a week later a fetus came out of me when I was in the bath. So I was pregnant. And it was a very hard time because I found out my boyfriend had been seeing my sister during all this. I have some pictures of the baby which was and I was 7 weeks pregnant but the baby died at 5 weeks. Its now new year, and my stomach has grown alot I have a bump and can feel my uterus? My breast have become very big, am I being paranoid? I have been smoking a lot, but I don't know if I'm still pregnant and I can't just go out to the shops and buy a pregnancy test because im 15. Yeah I am a stupid little girl, and I don't know what to do, I just need a bit of help.

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