Comments on: An Argument For Eating Your Placenta

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:51:38 +0000

okay so basically your sayin an organ that is expunged from the body is necessary to eat to avoid depression and gain nutrients..? i mean dont you think if our body needed the nutrients or whatever from the placenta, your body would not release it..and on another note i completely agree that it is self cannibalism..just because your body releases it does not mean its for consuming, im a 22yr old male, and obv i wont be eating anyones placenta but that doesnt mean i dont have an opinion…and there is a difference between fact and belief, sure it has things yur body can use but that doesnt make it dinner material.

By: Lyndell @ Placenta Encapsulation San Diego

Lyndell @ Placenta Encapsulation San Diego — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:44:44 +0000

I definitely recommend ingesting your placenta by the way of encapsulation. It helped me a great deal and I will definitely do it again on with my next pregnancy.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:24:24 +0000

I am new to this idea of ingesting your placenta. I had seen it on a few youtube videos as i was researching home birth, and thought it was gross. But then my doula gave me a book regarding the healing power of the placenta…it was an eye opener. Although I cannot say that I have decided for sure what I’m going to do, I will say that the effects of ingesting it sound wonderful! Increased milk supply, shrinking your uterus in a few days as opposed to a few weeks, lots of energy, ect. sound lovely to me as this is my 3rd child…I have 2 busy toddlers to keep care of as well as myself! I don’t believe I have dealt with postpartum with either of my other births, but we all know each time can be so different! In my opinion if I could prevent it, that would be better than having to cure it
The idea of encapsulating sounds nice, but it’s also a lot of work to do, so if I go ahead with this it will probably be just in the form of shakes for the first few days.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:10:44 +0000

There is no way I would ever eat the placenta! I have a gag reflex anytime I think about it. I couldn’t keep it in my freezer either.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:00:59 +0000

While I didn’t eat or save my placenta (we were moving in a few months after the birth and I couldn’t fathom trying to keep it frozen over the two day journey), my son and his doula did placenta prints in the kitchen while I was getting sorted out after my daughters birth. He loved it and I still have them. Some people might think that an odd art project for a 3 1/2 year old, he thought it was great.

On another note, I did suffer with postpartum with my second and had I encapsulated my placenta, I think it would have been a godsend.

Great post Melodie!
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By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:38:36 +0000

Um, yuck. I do have my placenta frozen in the freezer and plan to plant it under a tree, but that's about as crunchy with my placenta as I'll get! .-= Kim´s last blog ..Huh, would you look at that? =-.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:57:12 +0000

For me a good deal of the ick factor is that the placenta is genetically the tissue of your baby, not you. It’s not the mom’s reproductive organ, it’s the baby’s organ that it only needs to connect to mom in utero. I know I’ve seen the facts somewhere about which primate relatives do eat placentas and which don’t – and I don’t recall exactly, but I don’t think it was incredibly illuminating from an evolutionary perspective – some do and some don’t, so it’s not clear what humans naturally do. My feeling is that most women would not need to because humans are so social we’re not just waiting for our husband from our nuclear family to come home with meat, but we can share food within our tribe and preserve food for later use, and not need the immediate food source upon birth. However, it’s an insurance policy for mothers who have a difficult birth with a lot of blood loss, or giving birth alone or during lean times for the tribe. I think the mother’s intuition should guide her as to whether eating the placenta is necessary or not – and I like to think if your intuition says yes, that the ick factor drops away

I am curious about the dried and encapsulated placenta idea – that can’t match any evolutionarily honed physiological purpose for placenta eating – which suggests to me that it’s useful as a treatment only for a situation that’s already out of balance… which most of us may be anyway, considering what our modern lifestyles are!
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