The afterbirth thread

Oh come on people! Let's just dive in to this beautiful world and never look back. There are many, many pictures on the internet.

WHOA can we get an NSFW here mods?

-- Abbott, Saturday, 18 August 2007 01:40 (12 hours ago) Link

what's NSFW about afterbirth? A bit gross, maybe, depending on the individual, but the clue is in the thread title.

Looks more like Alpaca to me.

That reminds me - I need some breakfast.

Eating afterbirth - that was fashionable once amongst people who like to shock. Apparently it's quite nutritious. I was unable to eat my ex-wife's, mainly because I'd been munching on club sandwiches right through the birth and was rather full at that point.

Breakfast, you say?

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/863/20005160.JPG

A guy I knew was on a TV show eating placenta pate.

Now there's something you never see on Lolcats. Why not? It's cute.

I HAS A PLACENTA

I had to help a lady in an elevator give birth. It worked out surprisingly well, but I had a hard time getting her to eat the placenta.

sometimes you just kinda have to shove it in their faces

"EAT IT! EAT IT OR I WILL BEGIN PULLING HEALTHY TEETH!"

Wow - i want to hear that story!!

There is a school of thought that believes that cutting the umbilical cord is bad and violent so they leave the cord and placenta attached to the baby until it falls off naturally which can take days. They make little bags to keep the placenta in so it doesn't get messy or smell. It's supossedly more gentle for the baby too. I don't know though, I don't think there is anyway I could do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Birth

A friend of mine's partner recently gave birth and apparently prepared her placenta into an edible form, basically by baking/drying it in the oven or something and then pulverising it to poweder and making capsules to take. To ward of post natal depression. The smell in their kitchen must have been ... interesting.

of=off, stupid fingers.

I think you can also make it into a kind of pâté.

I first fully realized the immense power of the internet when I found a website (using Altavista or Hotbot) about eating placentas to settle an argument with a coworker.

A couple of friends just buried their new baby's recent afterbirth and planted a tree on top of it.