I Regret Eating My Placenta

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/i-regret-eating-my-placenta/?src=tp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy2wZSg5ZM

This was discussed in the quiddities thread but I feel like it could use its own thread

So why did I gobble placenta
So why did I gobble placenta
So why did I gobble placenta
So why did I gobble placenta

I just

don't

understand

Eating placenta isnt that weird of a thing - I know at least one couple who've done it. That article otoh is a massive load of anecdotal BS, and its so obvious she either had a reaction to the herbs or it was a psychosomatic response (or coincidence). I'm not a huge supporter of many alt therapies but geez.

then I'll raise my hand as a total square because placenta eating just seems O______o to me

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

every single picture on that wiki page makes me want to puke

That article otoh is a massive load of anecdotal BS, and its so obvious she either had a reaction to the herbs or it was a psychosomatic response (or coincidence). I'm not a huge supporter of many alt therapies but geez.

otm. lolled @ this line:

"While the Internet is teeming with individual pro-placenta stories, they are as anecdotal, and in my case as absurdly off beam, as alien sightings."

um, you mean like individual anti-placenta stories?

really enjoying my placenta meal

Its meat for vegans!

(ps eww)

tbf I don't fuck with organ meat anyway, I'm just as ew abt eating liver as I am placenta

placnta whites

i regret eating yr placenta, girl

more like that sounds mighty unplacenta!!

let me placate you with some placenta

I think if you tried it, you might be placentally surprised.

Lol A+

My friend shared the placenta with his wife right after he cut the umbilical cord with his teeth.

Someday she'll write "I Regret Writing 'I Regret Eating My Placenta'"

I was wondering if Alicia Silverstone would write "I Regret Pre-Chewing My Baby's Food and Feeding It to Him Like a Bird" at some point.

I Regret Not Eating My Placenta

I Regret Wating My Parents

my parents saved my placenta in a jar in the refrigerator and gave it to me for dinner on my 18th birthday

not really

i regret eating in placentia

http://www.placentia.org/images/pages/N337//PlacentiaFresh_2010%2520web.jpg

This Must Be The Placenta (Naive Munchery)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_(food)

I Regreat Eating Polenta

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sp20eGUtEsQ/Tab8pAy79HI/AAAAAAAAAHg/LQyyyXYPxwQ/s1600/polenta.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/fwuhxt.jpg

i regret eating my hymen

i regret eating yr placenta, girl

Jodeci b-sides mined some weird territory

This has come up so much lately! Is it because of J Jones? It's not like it's a new thing or anything. Because it's come up so much lately I have been thinking about it a lot and would probably give it a shot. I could never placenta sandwich or anything (like this lady http://www.momlogic.com/2009/04/i_ate_the_placenta.php) but I would look into the pills. This came up on Friday night while I was out with friends and prompted one of them to say "I don't get it dude, you're totally normal in general but when it comes to birth and kids and stuff you're a complete weirdo". :/

this webpage is very O_o: http://www.twilightheadquarters.com/placenta.html

Yeah. There is no way I could ever imagine doing that. I just couldn't stomach it. The pills would be different I think. Not saying it's something I would definitely do but I wouldn't immediately rule it out either. Also the NYT article is so dumb. So much more likely that the herbs caused that lady's reaction.

I have a cousin who is a doula and she has been pushing placenta munching big time on facebook. I'm having a hard time showing my support...

Tbh eating anything once is such a small change in diet that it'll have no long-term effect. There's no specific vitamin or mineral composition you're going to get from one serving of placenta. If you ate placenta every day for a period, maybe something would happen.

In other words, superstition.

Unless our placenta is made of peyote or something, I guess.

so you can't get poisoned from one dose of cyanide, right?

http://www.grimmgallery.com/files/7813/2103/2767/EggEatingEgret1.jpg

I, egret, eating my placenta

you have to eat it every day for a period (haah)

If there's a specific nutrient or compound that exists in a unique composition in the placenta, I am more than willing to hear about it, dayo.

Otherwise, go back to eating yr virgin boy eggs or whatever

what?

why don't you tell me to go eat some egg foo young while you're at it

What? I was just referencing other weird food stuff from the o_O thread

you're an asshole

wtf? Dude, you're the one trying to compare a homogenous known poison to a byproduct of the human body in an attempt to claim there could be some magical powers to placenta. I pulled out another weirdo ilx example that has just as many scientific measures of success.

if this thread becomes a clusterfuck I will give you guys some kind of prize

meanwhile many xxxxposts to DJ Mencap; I lol'ed

plz say the prize is cooked placenta

Ivy's cord fell off when she was in the NICU. I wasn't there when it happened. I wasn't involved in any of the cord care. I just came in one day and there was this weird little dried up thing sitting next to her bassinet. I didn't even figure out it was her cord for a couple of hours. I feel deeply sad about all of the time Ivy spent in the NICU but I feel particularly sad about that. So I get the urge behind a lot of this stuff.

At this point, it's also hard to avoid an emotional kneejerk negative reaction about a lot of this stuff because even though I would not have burned the cord or eaten my placenta or given birth in my tub, I also didn't have the choice. I didn't get to listen to music or hold my baby until 12 hours or so after she was born. So part of me mourns not having the choicedespite my anti-woo stance in general, which is why that quoted paragraph makes so much sense to me. And then I also get righteously angry at any suggestion that not embracing the whole passel of natural childbirth woo is somehow harmful. Cutting the cord before it stopped pulsing was nowhere near as harmful as not getting Ivy supplemental oxygen in the moments after she was born, you know?

all of that makes a ton of sense to me carl

I don't know if baby wearing was important for Ivy, but it was super key for me. Ivy seemed fine just snoozing in her bassinet but I desperately needed to cuddle her as much as possible. I'm a pretty cuddly person in general and given the circumstances of her birth, I really felt like I missed out on something super important in those first weeks. That's a huge reason why I am pretty casual about co-sleeping. I feel like I shouldn't encourage it, but I really like it. She just snuggles right up to me and it's like oxytocin city.

Baby wearing is also ultra convenient. Highly recommend it.

Yes CA, absolutely. I know several women who had elaborate birth plans and opinions and ideas of what their all natural births were going to look like who ended up having necessary medical intervention and were then really upset because I honestly think they hadn't even considered that that might happen.

I hadn't yet read the paragraph you quoted when I was talking about privilege but yes that is absolutely 100% spot on.

Thanks, guys. Validation is good!

for both our boys we put in a ton of work planning a natural childbirth (not a home birth though) and each time things did not go as planned in any way, we had to way more interventions than we anticipated and both boys were born cesarean. we did everything we could to make it happen each time but it just didn't work out for us. we generally feel a lot of resentment towards the natural birth movement, and while we understand and support so many of its principles, there is definitely a vibe that if you don't birth naturally, use various interventions, or have a cesarean birth, then your birth was a failure. the number of times we were told by natural birth devotees that labor/birth is not painful and can even be "orgasmic" (fuuuck that, really?) while my wife had one excruciatingly painful 40-hour labor and another excruciatingly painful 25-hour labor just makes us very angry.

not angry in the sense that we were entitled to a natural birth, more angry in the frequent misrepresentations that the natural birth movement gives. again, i support SO much of what the natural birth movement does, it is deeply needed but at the same time many of its adherents are not willing to admit that labor and birth varies so widely across women and often medical interventions are a wonderful thing.

we would have been FUCKED if we tried to do a homebirth yet it was still encouraged by many people we talked to

and by "natural birth movement" i mean the american natural birth movement that we've experienced mostly on the east coast of the US just to be clear

So much OTM. I mean, just in this thread I talked about a post on a midwifery message board where a midwife said that it ultrasounds were bad, even if they diagnosed complications that would be fatal without intervention (like the one I had!), because the death of a baby is less important than women connecting with their intuition. What the fuck? I mean, what the fucking fuck?

Also you know what really fucking sucks? C-sections. THEY SUCK. I don't want to scare anybody and they are a wonderful, amazing, life saving procedure that I am extremely grateful for but holy shit they aren't FUN and it took me about a year to stop having PTSD-like reactions about mine, and other than the resident anesthesiologist bobbling my epidural the first time, my c-section was pretty routine. It was just very, very unpleasant. Also nobody told me that uncontrollable shaking was a common reaction to an epidural so I literally thought I was dying. So the idea that individual mothers are getting c-sections because they are easy or whatever just makes me furious.

So the idea that individual mothers are getting c-sections because they are easy or whatever just makes me furious.

totally! recovery *at best* is like a 2-month deal, our baby was born 6 weeks ago and my wife is just now able to lift and hold our 28-lb toddler and it still hurts her

I am sending major empathy vibes to your wife rn.

"orgasmic" (fuuuck that, really?)

There is a video on youtube that claims to be a lady O-ing during birth and it's just . . . no fucking way.

I support whatever anyone wants to do but I also know that I'm a total wuss when it comes to pain and would probably be 20 mins in and begging for all the drugs available to me. I do think midwifes are awesome that birth is sometimes medicalized necessarily for routine pregnancies and for that reason I like the idea of midwife-led birthing centers within hospitals where the mother also has immediate access to doctors and interventions etc. Also I stress routine. Anyone that thinks all ultrasounds are dangerous can get fucked.

A Santa Cruz, California, family -- who asked not to be identified for privacy reasons but still allowed their faces to be put on a website associated with a a national news agency -- takes part in a cord burning ceremony.

zing

They put their kids in matching pajamas so they would be harder to dox individually.

Also as an adoptive parent, I'd like to take every natural childbirth/breastfeeding zealot in the country and set them on fire.

lol Santa Cruz of course

the health and safety of women I care about, or women in general, and their newborns, far and away outweighs any "authentic birth experience". If you have that and it works out, cool. But that's your trip- imposing that on other women is so shortsighted & kinda cruel..

Anyway it's ALL fuckin crazy amazing in the scheme of things, with or without hospitals so everone just stop being dicks lol

Carl: FYI it means the world that you and Ivy are here together. <3

love is the part everyone should aim for

now everyone throw their umbilical cords in the skillet, we're having a fry up

Oh god VG I don't know if it's because I was just being all sharing about a very emotional time in my life, but I just teared up at your post! In a god damn coffee shop!

Also as an adoptive parent, I'd like to take every natural childbirth/breastfeeding zealot in the country and set them on fire.

― DJP, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

Formula is a fucking miracle and anybody who attempts to diminish that is a jerk.

now everyone throw their umbilical cords in the skillet, we're having a fry up

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:55 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looool

I am sending major empathy vibes to your wife rn.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks carl!

(hugs) carl

yr probably still emotional from eating the umbilical cord <3

This thread still has my favorite title ever. So happy when it pops up in my bookmarks.

I'm sad because we never threw the placenta on the ice at a Blackhawks game. xp

lool

https://twitter.com/KimKardashian/status/676488221396738048

haaaaaahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

i knew i kept this bookmarked for a reason

thank u based ban

Also you know what really fucking sucks? C-sections. THEY SUCK. I don't want to scare anybody and they are a wonderful, amazing, life saving procedure that I am extremely grateful for but holy shit they aren't FUN and it took me about a year to stop having PTSD-like reactions about mine, and other than the resident anesthesiologist bobbling my epidural the first time, my c-section was pretty routine. It was just very, very unpleasant. Also nobody told me that uncontrollable shaking was a common reaction to an epidural so I literally thought I was dying. So the idea that individual mothers are getting c-sections because they are easy or whatever just makes me furious.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:59 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Booming post. H had to have them both times, they are awful both as an experience and the recovery is worse. She went through months of agony about trying to avoid the second one if at all possible. And sprinkle on top of that some additional agony from the anxiety and guilt that the natural birth movement manages to instill about them!

yea my wife had two c-sections as well, it was pretty intense and recovery was very slow. it is one of a few factors in our decision not to have any more kids.

it's funny, we, like, birth was fucking traumatic for us, and there is such a counter-narrative in the natural birth movement about labor and birth being wonderful and spiritual and an oxytocin hormone free-flow and its pushed and promulgated as a corrective to the "birth is a medical event" mainstream hospital birth, and sure i can dig some of that, but myths about natural birth can be pretty damaging too. like for real either our babies or my wife or both would have died during labor if we did not give birth in a hospital and have access to doctors and mainstream medical procedures.

While there's no question many C-sections are medically necessary, overall Caesarian prevalence is largely a cultural thing.

http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cesarean-rate-by-state-2013-1024x768.png

Will little difference in outcomes.

It could be worse:

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/CSections.png

charts! yay!

lol

this is one of my favorite thread titles of all time

yes

this along with http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=82925

woops didn't know it was a 77 thread sorry

I kinda regret eating my placenta but it's a relief to no longer be inside of it.

how was i ever so cranky about such a great topic

I, egret, eating my placenta

― GILFy Sigurdsson (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 1 April 2012 17:23 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the photo disappeared but I found it again

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp3.eu-west-1.secondvariety.com/pilarcorrias/content/uploads/PC22244-1-1-1-940x1252.jpg

https://groundedparents.com/2016/01/20/please-dont-eat-your-placenta/

omg the googly eyes

http://www.businessinsider.com/eating-the-placenta-after-birth-could-spread-infection-to-babies-2017-7

a friend posted that on facebook causing another, more scientifically dubious, friend to comment that she ate hers and it was fine

the latter friend also left eggs on the counter because "they do it in europe" and after being told that they don't wash the outer layer off in europe, was like "well, I'm fine!"

really hope they were locally-sourced eggs, because she was pregnant at the time

I don't even have a refrigerator.

in europe we generally vaccinate against salmonella so don't need to refrigerate

(our placentas I mean)

I'm completely embarrassed as a once-upon-a-time microbiologist (virus not bacteria, fwiw) that I did not know about salmonella vaccination outside USofA!

As a backyard chicken owner who recently had to fight City Hall on a right-to-bear hens issue, I should have more salmonella knowledge. That said, with some authority I could assure ppl on city council that yeah chickens totally transmit salmonella, most especially the chickens cut up for you to purchase at Whole Foods, etc.

I am unawares of anti-placenta-eating legislation, but hell it probably exists.