HTW: Keeping your placenta?

amethyst1220 · January 2011

http://www.placentabenefits.info/medicinal.asp

a girl on my mom board is having her placenta encapsulated so she can take it in pill form...

thoughts?

alyssa44 · January 2011

ummm.. I'm speechless.

LarissaAnn · January 2011

I'm not even clicking the link. That's disgusting.

Mrs.ABC · January 2011

Have you seen the placenta teddy bear? Yum!

While I think it's disgusting, I have heard that consuming it helps with PPD and milk supply...

I donated mine...

alyssa44 · January 2011

Mrs.ABC:

Have you seen the placenta teddy bear? Yum!

While I think it's disgusting, I have heard that consuming it helps with PPD and milk supply...

I donated mine...

I think I'll take my chances. Worse case I'll depend on formula and/or modern medicine. And this is coming from someone who is trying for a natural childbirth.

I would donate mine, but my hospital doesn't do placenta or cord bank donations (unless you are paying to privately have this done).

Mrs.ABC · January 2011

alyssa44:
Mrs.ABC:

Have you seen the placenta teddy bear? Yum!

While I think it's disgusting, I have heard that consuming it helps with PPD and milk supply...

I donated mine...

I think I'll take my chances. Worse case I'll depend on formula and/or modern medicine. And this is coming from someone who is trying for a natural childbirth.

I would donate mine, but my hospital doesn't do placenta or cord bank donations (unless you are paying to privately have this done).

It was really kind of weird. This lady came in and asks me if I was keeping my placenta. I looked at her like she was crazy; we laughed and shared a couple of stories about planting it, making a stew, the teddy bear, ect.... After I delivered in she came with a biohazard cooler, put my placenta on ice and off they went. It was kind of bizarre.

maynard1978 · January 2011

So when you donate it, where does it go? Who uses it?!? This subject is very foreign to me and honestly, kinda grosses me out, so I didn't even click on the link.

KSMILEY 77 · January 2011

I like to think I'm very open minded and into the natural benefits of things, but I cannot wrap my head around eating my own placenta. Encapsulating it is the best option IMO, but I still don't think I could ever do it. I definitely could never cook it up for dinner.... have you seen any of these recipes people make with it... with pictures. Gross!

Five_letter · January 2011

I wonder if you have to keep the pills refrigerated.

amethyst1220 · January 2011

i definitely won't be ingesting my placenta in any form, but thanks blair. i'll have to look into the donation thing.

burkems · January 2011

I don't think I was given any options. They asked if I wanted to see it, which I did. Not going to lie, turned me off of pot roast for a couple weeks.

justrachet · January 2011

No. No. No. No. No. No.

jene4413 · January 2011

They didn't ask if I wanted to keep it - they asked if I wanted to donate it for research (because of my preeclampsia), which I did.

LarissaAnn · January 2011

jene4413:
They didn't ask if I wanted to keep it - they asked if I wanted to donate it for research (because of my preeclampsia), which I did.

I could see doing this, but I'm an organ donor.

LarissaAnn · January 2011

jene4413:
They didn't ask if I wanted to keep it - they asked if I wanted to donate it for research (because of my preeclampsia), which I did.

I could see doing this, but I'm an organ donor.

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