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Poll Results: I'm curious now, did you eat your placenta?

Poll expired: Oct 28, 2004  
  • 6% (9)
    Yes
  • 93% (132)
    No
141 Total Votes  
post #41 of 55
10/18/04 at 11:13am
No, but my friend and I have a question:

Why do so many of the recipes call for 3/4 of a placenta? What do you do with the rest of it?

Here's a link:
http://www.geocities.com/virtualbirth/placenta.html

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post #42 of 55
10/18/04 at 12:09pm
No, I wish I had frozen it in cubes and/or kept part of it to plant w/ a tree though. I'd heard of it just before dd was born, and we were too preoccupied with packing and moving that I didn't really have a chance to run it by dh (although I'm sure that would have taken quite a bit of persuasion).... then dd came three weeks early and everything that day was such a whirlwind that I didn't think to tell the midwife I wanted to keep it. I got to see and feel it and the cord though.... very cool. Will plan ahead better for next time to keep it.
post #43 of 55
10/18/04 at 12:14pm
In fact, the more I think about it, the sadder I get for letting it get tossed out.
post #44 of 55
10/18/04 at 12:25pm
I didn't..but kept it to plant after our birth. I am increasingly curious though about eating it (even if only a small peice or charred and put into capsules) especially for hemmorage and PPD. unfortunatley my DH is really grossed out about any and all placenta talk
post #45 of 55
10/18/04 at 12:34pm
Mine are all buried under various trees, mango, breadfruit, coconut, one has a frangipani.
post #46 of 55
10/18/04 at 1:54pm
Stacy, that is encouraging to hear! I also had breastfeeding problems in addition to my PPD (my milk also came in on the 6th day after my surgical birth) and I am happy to hear you had none of these problems this time around!

Do you mind me asking how you ate yours?
post #47 of 55
10/18/04 at 2:16pm
No. I had never heard of such a thing and I was in a hospital anyway. I don't think I could handle it. My doc. did make a point of showing it to me.
post #48 of 55
10/18/04 at 2:48pm
I haven't eaten my placenta. (It's still working, though, so I won't vote.) When it comes, though, I will be dining on it. I haven't decided how, yet, but I actually like the taste of blood, (you know, like when you lick a cut on your hand or something) so I doubt the raw taste will bother me in the least.

All those health benefits combined with a hard-working body? You bet I'll eat it!
post #49 of 55
10/18/04 at 4:11pm
No, I didn't eat mine. I read all about it, the benefits and everything and saw lots of different recipes, but it just seemed so icky. I think it's totally cool, I've heard it can be a very powerful experience preparing it and all, and I'm kind of in awe of those who have, but it just had too much gross factor for me. Makes me a little queasy. Social programming I'm sure, but it's still there.
post #50 of 55
10/18/04 at 4:58pm
Katie - I ate it raw because I had read that cooking or drying it diminishes some of the beneficial properties. I had also heard that cooking or drying it really stinks, and I am super sensitive to bad smells. It wasn't so bad, really, or I'd have just eaten that one first bite my midwife cut off for me and buried the rest. I just cut it away from the cord and membranes and tore it into chunks I could swallow whole. Held each piece under my tongue as long as I could stand it, and swallowed em down. I'm a very picky eater, lots of food makes me ill just to think about eating it (undercooked meat, cabbage, yogurt, brussel sprouts, for example) but I had no problems eating raw placenta.
post #51 of 55
10/18/04 at 5:02pm
I'll eat it when the baby's done with it. :LOL
post #52 of 55
10/19/04 at 11:19am
I did not eat any of it, but I would if I thought I needed to.
My bleeding was controlled at my last birth, but if things get our of hand like they did once before, then I would swallow a piece of it like a friend did to help.
I think she said she just swallowed back a dime sized piece with water.
My placenta is in my freezer at the moment.
post #53 of 55
10/20/04 at 6:59pm
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post #54 of 55
10/20/04 at 7:01pm
Not I.

We donated ours to science. They use the stem cells! It was free for us, and we hope it can save someone later.

A lot of hospitals do that. I highly recommend it.
post #55 of 55
10/20/04 at 7:33pm
No, I did not eat the placenta, but it's only a matter of time. The placenta has been in our freezer for 2.5 years and I figure some day we'll plant a tree on it or something. But in the meantime, about every other month DH rummages through the freezer looking for something to make for dinner and comes across the placenta and says:

"Oooh... what's this?"

(pause)

"ACK! It's the placenta!!! We really should LABEL this thing!"
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