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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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I might be sick...
I'm sorry. This is waaaay too animalistic for me. I know it has vitamins, is natural, blah, blah, blah....but no. Just no. Any moms here want to shed some light on this for me? And what's w/the sentimental attachment? Why would someone encapsulate it?!
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/56047125.aspx?MsdVisit=1
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/56047125.aspx?MsdVisit=1
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Re: I might be sick...
Without even going to the link, I'm going to guess you're asking about eating the placenta.
It's more of a cultural custom than anything else from what I understand.
Apparently there has been a push toward it for some sort of health benefit. I read an article by Joel Stein (who I love) a couple of years ago about his wife wanting to do it. It was hilarious.
ETA: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1908442,00.html
I hope you're right. I really want it to not be true. I think it's gross any way you eat it, but that's just over the top.
Jen- I didn't read the article yet, but someone on ML mentioned that it can help w/PPD? I'm going to read it now.
I was thinking of encapsulate as in a time capsule of safe keeping kind of thing. lol Someone mentioned a placenta teddy bear? I don't know. It's all very weird.
No you will probably still feel that way. I'm pregnant and I certainly feel that way. To each his own and I don't judge if that's what other people want to do, but thinking about me doing it skeeves me out.
It does, according to a lot of people, have a lot of health benefits for a recovering mother. Many women swear by slivers/capsules to prevent PPD, help the uterus clamp down and return to pp size, etc. It's the only time in your life after birth that you'll grow a new organ, so some people get really worked up over it and attached because it nourished their baby. Personally, I am not down with eating raw organs even if I produced it. What a nut! Some people plant trees over theirs and other weirdness.
I actually wish someone local had offered drying/encapsulating services when I had M, because I might have considered it. Anything to prevent the baby blues, because it was rough.
But anyway, leaping over and taking a bite? Wtf, nutter woman.