anyone eaten the placenta?

[warthog]

it's supposed to stop pnd but there hasn't been any research.

anyone had direct experience?

I cant think of anything more revolting!

but each to their own!!

Not here but I did see a cookery programme with Hugh Fearnely Whittinsgall man who went to a family home and they cooked it and ate it for dinner. Quite like liver apparently.

I do know someone who took theirs home to plant with some roses!

Don't see how that would stop PND. I don't have a problem with people eating it if they want to, but not for me thanks!

why on earth would someone want to eat something that has just slid out of their nether regions!

Makes me feel quite nauseous to even think about it!!!

wet boak.my placenta failed me badly in pg so i would gladly have danced on it.have never heard it may prevent PND, sorry sounds daft to me. cannot see any preventative benefit. but the great pseudo-scientist Patrick Holford licentiously thinks it is beneficial and so do these numnuts

Oh, lord. Patrick Holford...

We used it in a stir fry at the christening.
It was much remarked upon.

i have also heard of it being used , distilled, to make a remedy for PND or as a preventative.

personally, i would not eat mine, but i enjoyed looking at it in detail after the birth, and being quite overawed at this thing that had kept DD nourished and oxygenated for 9 months.

some women like to have a lotus birth, where the umbilical cord is not cut, and the placenta is carried aroudn with the baby until it all naturally detaches.

lord it would be eating an amputated arm or something.virtually cannibalism if it belongsto someone else. wrong on so many different levels.

on second thoughts is it a bit like biting your nails? if it is maybe not so wrong. will ponder a while.

dont understand desire to eat body detritus.would you sup on lochia, chomp on umbilical cord?

we saw many recipes for placenta when we were expecting our DS

we wanted to do something with it but didn't fancy feasting down.
it the end it wasn't possible due to birth issues that I won't go into here but google placenta recipe and you'll be shocked

it's one chance vegetarians get to eat meat at least.... nothing has been killed... sort of

mine is in the freezer - i cannot wait to scran the blighter!

interesting. i suppose it is detritus. in that it is no longer useful or functioning. but out of all the post birth stuff, it is the most edible... i imagine umbilival cord would be very chewy , like overcooked calamari....

but then if it is useful in terms of prevnting PND< it is not detritus.

dunno

chacun a son gout.!

My sister planted a tree on hers.
Tis full of juicy fruit.

its not really in the freezer but i did as ke to see it after ds as i was a bit gutted i never asked to see it after dd (our first) - it was fascinating! I was suprised it was so big! It would have certainly fed a family of 6!

our stomachs turn quite easily in the western world
i would imagine it wouldn't freak a lot of people out that much as a natural ritual post birth

we were initially going to float the placenta down river and wave bye bye - that was perhaps a moment of madness though
or could be false memories

So they will actually let you tae it home....?

wish i;d done something with mine now.

of course you can take it home !! just make sure you put it in your birth plan and make sure you remind the MW after the birth.

Lulu - the carrying round the placenta thing - how does that work? Isn't it a bit damp? I'm imagining trying to look after a newborn whilst lugging something from the butcher's window about with me.

(I also found my placenta fascinating, but I didn't find it hard to say goodbye.)

it's not detritus, it's an organ!
DH wanted us to eat DS's, but we froze it, and somehow I couldn't cope with the idea of defrosting it and eating it - seemed much weirder than eating it fresh . so we planted a tree on top of it instead.

its yours after all
you can take the whole lot home in an asda bag if you wish
make sure you tape up the holes

I want mine back

i think a tupperware would be better ! a locking lid one !

placenta dries out, some women salt it and fragrance it and carry it in a bag.

google it, you'll be amazed!

ach well take a good air tight tub (not the cheapo under the sink)

i've heard of people taking amputated limbs home with them
not sure what they do with them once home, but the mind boggles