Placenta smoothie? - **Warning not for weak stomachs**
Danalana wrote: Has anybody heard of eating at least part of the placenta right after birth?
I had never heard of it, but there is a woman on my pregnancy board who has every intention of making a smoothie out of hers. She actually asked her son (teenager) if he would prepare it for her...she is planning on doing an unassisted home birth, with only her teenage daughter present.
Anyway, she says it is supposed to help with hormones and reduces the risk of PPD. Anybody heard of it?
OH, for the record, I won't be stealing (well, I guess it would technically be mine) my placenta from the hospital and making a smoothie...just wondered if I was the only person who had never heard of it.
luvmykids replied: EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW NO!  
paradisemommy replied: heard of it? oh yeah...
would i ever do it? uh no
gr33n3y3z replied: OMG more nut bags helppppppppp
Why dont she just fry it up and make a sandwhich LOL
Anthony275 replied: thats gross and id imagine you'd get sick from it
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: http://www.placentabenefits.info/
Calimama replied: Not for me.. but to each their own.
BAC'sMom replied: I'll pass.... thank you
MyBabeMaddie replied: I've heard of people saving it and freezing it and eating a little bit every birthday. Not a smoothie though - YUCK!
stella6979 replied: YUCK! I'd rather donate the cord blood.
Cece00 replied:
I laughed SO HARD at the sandwich comment.
& I agree- NUT JOBS.
kimberley replied:  
i have heard of it but... no thanks. i am going to bury my placenta but never would i eat it.. that's just gross.
eta omg Lisa, you made me choke on my drink hahahahahahahaha
gr33n3y3z replied:
I gather you are all for it
Thats fine can you tell us what it taste like?
Maddie&EthansMom replied:
I'm curious too.
DillsMommy replied: Maybe with some ranch dressing, everything tastes good with ranch. JK!!!
I've heard of someone frying it and eating it before.
Calimama replied:
Oh EWW 
A&A'smommy replied: OMG thats disgusting!!!!
but pretty neat though!!!
redchief replied: Placentophagia, or eating the placenta after giving birth has no added nutritional benefit, hormonal or otherwise. It is simply a disposable organ (the only disposable organ made by mammals, by the way), that is used as a filter from mother to child during gestation. Animals in the wild eat placenta for two reasons:
1. Nourishment because the mother is weak and unable to gather her own food... and
2. As a defense in the case of some prey animals so that the animal doesn't broadcast that she has just given birth and therefore has easy food at hand.
That's the scientific answer. Now my personal opinion is that placentophagia is just barbaric. EWWW.
Anthony275 replied:
yum yum
AlexsPajamaMama replied:
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: I had mine in a smoothie & didn't taste it at all.
Placenta Cocktail:
1/4 cup raw placenta
8oz V-8 juice
2 ice cubes
1/2 cup carrots
Blend at high speed for 10 seconds
redchief - you are wrong about the "no added nutritional benefits...". Read the link I posted for more info  .
luvmykids replied: I don't claim to know anything about Placentophagia, but I'd be willing to bet that someone who wants you to purchase her kit to aid in it would be a little slanted in that direction
Calimama replied:
Exactly. That website is like a commercial for the product.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
But you don't NEED her "kit" . So she gains nothing out of it except sharing wonderful information.
luvmykids replied: True, but it's just like everything else....pretty easy to find a link backing up just about anything Not much different than me posting a link about any given subject and anyone else finding one to oppose it...which goes back to the root, to each his own but I don't take everything that comes my way as the hard and fast truth 
Calimama replied:
No but she WANTS people to purchase it.. hence why it's talked up. But that's just my opinon.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Yep, there will ALWAYS be someone on the other side of the story . It's a matter of finding where you fit in.
redchief replied:
I don't state things I haven't looked into. There's nothing on the site posted that relates in any way whatsoever to science. It's a commercial site selling the uninformed on a product with no scientific background. The site is wrought with "known to's," and "considered to be's." This isn't science... It's garbage.
The greatest argument, that placenta contains hormones that will stave off PPD, is patently FALSE. This is science, not BS. The second argument, that placenta provides necessary nutrients, is also false. There is nothing in placenta that the human body needs that is not already provided for in a balanced diet.
If someone wants to consume their child's placenta, more power to them, but I don't accept it as norm, nor do I accept is as particularly civilized. I do consider it absolutely grotesque.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Cannibalism comes to mind....and probably why it's usually illegal to dispose of the placenta like you'd dispose of other bodily excretions, such as, oh, I dunno... poop.
I'm sure I have a few kleenexes in the garbage I can rescue some snot out of, if anyone would like a snot smoothie.
redchief replied:
It's a scientific fact that there are hormones present in mucus (snot). What do you think of that?
DillsMommy replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I'd rather a snot smoothie than a placenta smoothie.
Calimama replied:
Anthony275 replied:
well..you're not a vampire or anything like that
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
No, I'm just not a cannibal. I don't think about eating a body part, sorry! lol
Besides... who hasn't had a bit of snot in their mouth at some point... you know..the whole snurf up a loogie and hock it out in a kleenex ... 'nuff said.
Anthony275 replied: so you are a vampire?! 
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I vant to suck your bloooooooood......i mean.....eat your placenta.......
luvmykids replied:
Heck, my kids have had those at one point or another
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
at least they got some hormones...
Hillbilly Housewife replied: heck maybe that's why my kids are big for their ages. Licking the snot drippings from their upper lip before I can wipe it....
luvmykids replied: Yeah, some days that could be the equivalant of a meal replacement shake
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Mmm mmmm mmmmmm!!!!!!!
Hey what's the difference between brussel sprouts and snot?
luvmykids replied: Kids will actually eat snot?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Ding ding! 2 points
luvmykids replied: ROFL
Anthony275 replied: this thread is just as bad as the time i found my umbilical cord stump a few months ago...god knows why my mom kept it
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Probably kept it as a leftover... after she ate your placenta. In case she got the urge for a snack.
Anthony275 replied: oh yea of course
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I wonder if there's a cook book out there for this type of thing?
Blending Placenta, 101
Anthony275 replied: oh yeah the book jerry seinfeld's wife wrote!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
"how to hide your body parts in spaghetti sauce"
Anthony275 replied: ha ew
blood pudding anybody?
luvmykids replied: Ok I have to go to bed now, or you guys will give me nightmares
Anthony275 replied: ok be sure to have placenta as a midnight snack
luvmykids replied:
I KNEW I shouldn't have come back here
Hillbilly Housewife replied: lol
Hungry anyone? Who's having a baby next? Can we come over for dinner?
Anthony275 replied: is anybody giving birth in april? save the placenta so you can dye easter eggs with the remains!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
ewwwww....... lol
Aw heck..why use old blood... I can save up my.. ahh nevermind.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Monica, I see you.........can't stay away can you?
Anthony275 replied: you've crossed the line, ma'am
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Crossing the line? as opposed to... making jokes about eating placenta?
Anthony275 replied: yes
why is luvmykids still in here? is she writing these techniques down?
i wonder if i can get placenta paint for my walls too?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Placenta paint?
Why? Do you lick walls for fun? 
Anthony275 replied: not particularly but man im running low on toner for my printer do you think if i take it to circuit city they'll refill it with placenta?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Hmm... I think not. I belive it would be illegal for them to have the stuff shipped to Circuit City. It's considered biohazard...or something like that. You're out of luck buddy. Sorry...
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Oooh Ooooh! I remember hearing about a face cream that has placenta extract in it. Course, it also had some type of sea crusty creature bits in it too. 
luvmykids replied:
I do have a name ya know  
Tried to go to sleep....had visions of placentas dancing in my head
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
awwww muffin. Got a craving, did you?
luvmykids replied:
Yup, and what I'm after just ain't around
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Ahahhah hahah ah a
Now now... don't you know any pregnant ladies?
Anthony275 replied: when i turn 21 the first drink im going to have at a bar is a placenta on the rocks
Hillbilly Housewife replied: make sure to add some nutrients to it.
Anthony275 replied: like alcohol?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm sure that would qualify.
Cece00 replied:
Me, please!!! FedEx them to me
Cece00 replied:
Have a bloody mary with a shot of placenta on the side
gr33n3y3z replied:
The only nutrition in there is
V8 juice
Carrots
I dont even eat livers or gobblers why would I eat placenta
There is no SCIENTIfIC EVIDENCE out there that placenta is good for you
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Do you want the creamy slimy type or the green gooey type?
Oh, and you'll need to pm me your address.
Kaitlin'smom replied: well now ihave something to read again if I feel the need to much.....thanks fro the modivation to stick with it
lovemy2 replied: Its official - you have all LOST you rminds This is a FOUR page thread about eating a plancenta  Way to go - almost as good as TwelveVoltMans thread about NOTHING
It was a great Sunday am laugh though - great job girls/guys
mom2my2cuties replied: I had heard that some eastern cultures did this, but didn't realize it was becoming more and more popular in the US...Gross...The LAST thing I want to think about in 3 weeks is eating something that come out of my body let alone something that is dying.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: If you REALLY want to be grossed out... I was SOOO bored last night I was looking up and doing "reasearch" on eating placenta... and while I stick to my thoughts that it is CANNIBALISM...........
Here you go.
Don't click it if you have a weak stomach. lol
http://havingapoo.blogspot.com/2007/07/placenta-party.html
My3LilMonkeys replied: ooohhh.....not a good thread to read when you have morning sickness.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Did I miss a post where you're announcing you're pregnant??? Congrats!!!
Planning on eating your own placenta?
My3LilMonkeys replied:
Yeah, we found out a few weeks ago - thanks!
I've eaten many, many strange things in my life, and if I should happen across it in a strange restaurant some day I might consider trying it, but eat my own - no thanks.
gr33n3y3z replied:
LOL OMG if your on a diet visit that url everytime your hungry
They were like animals poking and ewwwww lol
Question for you Rocky dont you ever sleep?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
No, not really. I'm usually up until 2:30 or so, like last night.... and I get up around 6, 6:30.
It sux.
Maybe I should eat a placenta, maybe I'd be able to sleep.
Or at least pass out from the nausea.
luvmykids replied: O.M.G. I shouldn't have looked Some of the comments on that link were pretty funny though
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I especially liked the picture of the placenta and cord looking like a happy face... i could just picture a croaky voice saying "eat me...eat me... eat me, mr lecter!"
Anthony275 replied: i heard placenta is like aloe, can i put it on my hands as lotion?!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I'm sure you could. Might be a little messier than aloe though. Might have a few question from the cops as to why there's someone else's blood all over you...
Anthony275 replied: i ran out of orange juice, can i have fresh squeezed placenta instead?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: But Anthony... you get more nutrition from, say, whiskey! Who wouldn't want a shot of whiskey in the morning??
Anthony275 replied: nah im not an alcoholic like my driving teacher, his breath reeked of whiskey yesterday morning
maybe they serve those in the carribbean at the beach?
A&A'smommy replied: WOW this thread got even grosser (is that a word?)
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well the Caribs is after all well known for it's history of cannibalism.
Some might try to claim, though, that it was a fraudulous exclamation claimed so that the invaders (i.e. white man) could enslave the people. Because of, you know, that law that stated that you could only keep slaves if their disposition was better off as a slave than as a free man. Some might claim that the ritual of eating their dead wasn't in fact a religious ritual, but was more of a deviation from normal due to starvation.
But oh well, people break laws all the time. I mean, just think about all those people walking their cows down the main road... or, OMG, those people fornicating with no intention of fertilizing!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Now THIS is a placenta something I might be willing to try....
..that is, if I wasn't aware of just how nasty that mixture would be. Worse than a Cement Mixer.
Pickled Placenta recipe
serve in Shot Glass
alcohol 25%
1/3 oz gin
1/3 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
1/3 oz Dubonnet® Rouge vermouth
redchief replied:
First of all, you really need to get a handle on that insomnia... Same to you Monica and Anthony. 
Re: that link... Does that mean it's acceptable for vegans to eat human flesh? You can't have a hamburger, but you can eat little Tommy's external kidney? Hmmm... something smells fishy... no wait, they don't eat fish either... just placenta.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I thought this was pretty funny, too.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/17
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yeah, it's a "rare treat" since it's meat not aquired by the slaying of an animal.
redchief replied:
I see.
***rocky says...Oops..i went to reply and hit edit. Sorry!***
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I thought this was kind of interesting.
"Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities. "
(Deut. 28:53-57; bolded 56-57a)
mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied:
To answer the original question, yes, I've heard of people eating their placenta. I had a friend in HS who's mom did it. I think people also plant it under a tree to help it grow. Although I wouldn't do it, I don't judge those that choose to do so.
HuskerMom replied: Wow I'm so glad I opened this thread at lunchtime.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Although...you know... thinking more about it... the whole eating meat not come by from the suffering of an animal... last time I thought about it, childbirth was pretty painful. I guess childbirth isn't considered suffering? As opposed, to, say.. um.. chickens laying an egg? Or cow or goat teats being squeezed for milk? I'm all for vegans, hey whatever floats your boat... but come on. A quick humane way of killing an animal, for meat, vs. an agonizing extended multi-houred laboring session in which a lot of women have a rip from the front to the back and can't sit for days, even weeks? and the cramping? and the following post partum bleeding? and the cracked nips from breastfeeding? followed by a piece of meat ripped off their uterine lining? How can the placenta not be meat aquired by the suffering of an animal?
Hmm. I'll have a beef steak, thanks.
Danalana replied: Ok, you're all in luck. I thought about it and I have decided to sell my placenta! I'll be selling it by the half-cup. This way, you can make your very own smoothie...or sandwich. It's a first-come first-served thing, so you should get to me soon if you want some. I would eat it myself, but I already have hormones and nutrients.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Jess? did you keep yours? Will you make a smoothie?
no aids or hepatitis, right?
Danalana replied: I have a feeling she didn't think of keeping hers. If only I had made this thread BEFORE she went into labor...
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Seriously. Dana, where were you and this thread?
I mean... we could have helped Jess potentially avoid some baby blues!! 
Oh Jess, I hope you're feeling ok. Can't wait to see more pics once baby Isaia gets to come home!
Danalana replied: Jess, you need to call and see if they still have your placenta! Maybe it's at the lab or something. UNLESS the lab people couldn't resist and already ate it
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Oh that would be a darn shame.
Danalana replied: Well, some people are just rude
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Seriously. Who would eat someone else's placenta? Don't they know that's just totally rude, especially if they didn't even think about offering any of it to the mom who actually pushed it out?
luvmykids replied:
Yeah, this morning I was really wishing I'd gone to be looong before we digressed so badly I need a snooze now 
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Nothing a few placenta pills won't cure, I'm sure.
CantWait replied: Omgosh I missed A LOT today while I was cleaning my house today.
WOOOOOO nasty nasty nasty. You guys (Lisa, Ed, Rocky, Dana) as always are way to funny.
Danalana replied:  I like being "you guys" (or as I call it...yall).
Danalana replied: I've been thinking...nothing is wrong with my appendix, but I wonder if it has any nutritional value. Most doctors won't remove an organ (even one that has no real function) without a good reason. Is there some way I can get around that?
gr33n3y3z replied:
I wonder what they did with mine after it burst well what was left of it LOL
gr33n3y3z replied:
yall you guys its all good right?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Now I feel special. Like I'm part of some group or something.....
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Why does the song "Superfreak" come to mind?
gr33n3y3z replied:
yeah were special alright LOL
gr33n3y3z replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Some would probably be inclined to say...short bus special.
Anthony275 replied: i should start volunteering at the hospital again, so i could take all the placentas and keep them to myself...or am i just greedy?
redchief replied:
Careful. From all I can gather, they're high in cholesterol.
Danalana replied: Then why do you want 3 cups?
Danalana replied: I saw you!
And I was making fun of you
Anthony275 replied:
but i love it so much i hope my arteries dont clog up 
Hillbilly Housewife replied: just cut down on the eggs..you'll be fine.
Anthony275 replied: what eggs
mom2my2cuties replied: I'm so glad this is here I started having contractions tonight and all I could think about was this thread
luvbug00 replied: You have all lost your minds! I was shown mya's little "house" when i had her and almost vomited just looking at eat. the thought of eatting it is ...well i just couldn't.
CantWait replied:
Will you be eating your plancenta???
Anthony275 replied: im so hungry tonight i could go for a nice hardy placenta right about now
Danalana replied:
Not even if it were mixed with V-8 and carrots or something?
You obviously do not care about your hormones!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: oh riiiigggghhht... forgot there's "hormones" in there.
Um... wouldn't the hormones be there while it was in your body...but once it was severed from your body..since, you know, it's attached by a bunch of small arteries and stuff... like any other organ, wouldn't it shut down and decompose right away? so...no hormones?
Anthony275 replied: eww so are you saying if i ate dana's placenta ill start getting woman hormones??
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well no silly, cuz there's no hormones in placenta!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: well not once it's expelled, anyways. Like any other organ, it shuts down.
So unless you're gobblin it up while it's still warm...... just another piece of meat.
Human meat.
Anthony275 replied: mmm covered in blood!! sorta like my arm whenever i have an itch!
PrairieMom replied: OMG you guys. This thread is something else.
I was wanting to get PG again just so I could have the placenta.  you aren't being very sensitive.
luvmykids replied:
Well, it sorta kinda stayed on topic
Cece00 replied:
Def the green gooey kind!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh goody. I wasn't sure, so I've been stocking up on both... you should SEE the one I got this morning! Kinda reminds me of Ghostbusters, I don't know why.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Hmm... We rather steered away from the smoothie aspect of things, no?
I'm hungry.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: Yes, consuming the placenta has benefits!
1. It helps with milk production (hmmm---maybe there would be less of the "I didn't have enough milk" excuses?!?!?), SUMMARY BELOW:
http://cogprints.org/757/0/gustibus.htm
Sorry, I can't cut & paste from this link:
http://www.placentabenefits.info/articles/..._lactagogon.pdf
2. It's a natural pain reliever:
http://cogprints.org/180/0/review.html
http://www.placentabenefits.info/articles/Kristal_opioid.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m151...v16/ai_17863342
Placentophagy as an Adaptive Biological Behavior
:: Why do mammals consume placenta?
Summary of Mark B. Kristal's research paper, Placentophagia: A Biobehavioral Enigma: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Vol. 4, pp. 141--150.
Nearly universal placental ingestion
Nearly every mammal will consume the placenta after it is born. There are four main scientific theories that attempt to describe the causes of placentophagia, but none of them adequately explain this phenomenon in all of the cases in which it manifests.
Main theories
The first theory is that there is a sudden shift toward carnivorousness upon giving birth, causing a confirmed herbivore to suddenly crave meat. Basically, since the placenta is readily available, the mother consumes it. In testing this hypothesis, a variety of meats were presented to herbivores before, during, and after birth; all of the meats were refused, while the placenta was enthusiastically consumed. Another theory along the same line is that the mother just happens to be hungry after all that hard labor, so she eats the placenta. While many species do refuse food and drink during labor, it is not true of all species. Even animals that consume food and drink throughout the duration of labor will still consume their placenta.
Some researchers have hypothesized that a new mother has a sudden and specific hunger for placenta, presumably as a reaction to childbirth. Although there may be physiological components to the compulsion to consume the placenta, it has been observed that a large number of mammals will consume placenta from another animal, even if they have not yet delivered their own young. This would imply that the unique physiological state present at birth is not necessary for placentophagia to occur.
It's not to clean the nest site!
The last, and most commonly cited hypothesis for placentophagia, is that mothers consume their placenta to clean the nest site and keep the offspring safe from predators. While a seemingly sound theory on the surface, there are many reasons to refute this popularly held belief. For one, unchallenged predators consume their placentas, even though they are not likely to fear that predators could harm their young. Additionally, even in species in which the baby is able to get up and walk away from the birth site, the mother will stay until the entire placenta is consumed. Certain primates that deliver their young high in a tree will not let the placenta drop to the ground, but will instead consume it, even taking an hour or two to do so. And, lastly, birth is a messy process. Yet there is no effort to clean up any of the blood and other fluids that exist on the ground of the birth site, which would also presumably attract predators.
An evolutionary purpose
There must be some other evolutionary cause for placentophagia. A very interesting adaptive theory is that consuming placenta may actually affect the mother's immune system, by suppressing her body's inclination to create antibodies as a response to antigens present in the baby's blood. As an example, women who are negative for the Rh antigen can have difficulty supporting a subsequent pregnancy if her first baby is positive for the Rh antigen. Her body can create anti-Rh antibodies, which then attempt to fight off the next pregnancy if the next baby is Rh-positive, mistakenly recognizing it as a threat. Placentophagia may actually cause a suppression of this response, allowing her to have successful subsequent pregnancies. Human women who are Rh-negative are often encouraged to get a shot of Rhogam, a vaccine that blocks the creation of high levels of these antibodies. Mammals may have adapted their own antidote over thousands of generations, simply by practicing placentophagy.
http://www.placentabenefits.info/biological.asp
PrairieMom replied: I can appreciate your point of view on this subject, but you have to know that this is wildly reguarded as strange, so our reactions to the subject really shouldn't be surprising. if you tried it and it worked for you, then great. As for me, I will stick to more conventional meds.
lovemy2 replied: I don't care how you swing it - in my eyes its still
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Good for you for trying it. I don't think I could stomach it. As for nearly all mammals doing it... well most also lick their crotches and eat their own poop. My husband may call me an animal sometimes... but i'm not enough of one to start doing that, either.
mooo.
mom2my2cuties replied:
Oh but the people who would love to try that.
And no Marie - I have no desire to try to eat it. I can barely stomach the texture of beef, *shudders*
tammyhopkins replied: I actually saw this on The Baby Story on TLC the other day and she said it was a tradition in their culture to do this. Personally i was gaging hte whole time watching it. so needless to say i will let the hospital dispose of mine. Thank you
lisar replied:
I must have missed that episode. Thats just nasty to me and I am with you and will let the hospital dispose of mine I dont even wanna see it.
coasterqueen replied: All I can say is EW EW and EW. I have heard of it, but it's not for me.
My2Beauties replied:
I had just put down my tea when I read this and swallowed thank God I did, because it would have been all over my PC
My2Beauties replied: And just to add, sewingmama, to each it's own but I won't be following you on that anytime soon.
CantWait replied:
holley79 replied: There is no was in Hades I would make a smoothie out of Placenta. I mean to each their own right?
I end up visiting with Carrie Ann this weekend and you all lose your minds.
At least everyone played nicely.
Anthony275 replied: wow you're missing so much when you dont eat placenta!!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: nah...just human meat
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I don't eat my hair, nor my finger nails. I don'ty chew my own dead skin from a callus or whatever.. i wouldn't eat my scabs, either. I would not eat my own feces, nor drink my own urine. I would certainly not eat a shmuck..so I would definitely not eat an organ coming outta me. More power to you.
Anthony275 replied: so you will eat umbilical cord stumps?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh yeah, sure. They're fantastic for picking porcupine quills out of your teeth.
Anthony275 replied: yeah and perfect for keeping for 17+ years, just ask my mom!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Maybe mammals have it right... some eat their young. Perhaps only the more loving ones eat the placenta instead. Maybe something about the squishy furry ball of cuddles they just produced can't quite make them devour it but they still have that cannibalistic urge and chow down on the afterbirth 
katiesmom2002 replied: Yuck that is gross, i cant believe someone would actually do something like that.
gr33n3y3z replied:
Ok correct me if I'm wrong but isnt the Placenta the thing that filters everything from the baby like waste products?
A&A'smommy replied: Okay this thread is 7pages long that is NUTS!!!!
I just cannot imagine eating your placenta.. its just sooo .... grosss
Crystalina replied: Hmm, I eat raw oysters so for me it wouldn't be the texture. I'd imagine it would be chewy like an octopus (which I also eat) but for me the thing is where it originated from. I would not be able to bring myself to eating it. If someone else were to eat theirs (being the norm or not) would not bother me. People do things every day that are "odd" to me but whatever.
And by the way...
This is the thread that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my friends
Some people started posting here not knowing what it was
And they'll continue posting here forever just because...
This is the thread that never ends...
Danalana replied:
Okay, now you've gone too far...
As noted on the shower-peeing thread, urine has many benefits, such as curing athlete's foot. I'm thinking, despite the fact that it is quite toxic, it would be even MORE beneficial if ingested. Why do you think they want a urine "sample" every time we go to the OB? Don't think I don't know what's going on, buddy!!
my2monkeyboys replied:
That's what I was thinking. Between what it is used for and the fact that it is cannibalism, there's no way that is ever a possibility. And just because animals do it doesn't mean we should.... there's a reason we are the higher intelligence, ya know?
By the way, this is one of the most entertaining threads I've read in a long time!
Anthony275 replied: hamsters eat their young if their scent is gone...im pretty sure nobody i know has eating their baby
gr33n3y3z replied:
I have to agree with you
Edited to say on all counts lol
PrairieMom replied: Im pretty sure nobody i know has eating their baby [/QUOTE]
Anthony275 replied: tara are you saying you've eaten a baby?
what was it like?
PrairieMom replied:
gamey.
Anthony275 replied: i cant believe you
PrairieMom replied:
yeahhhh... there is a lot y-all don't know about me.
Anthony275 replied: i hope you didnt also save your kids' umbilical cord stumps!
redchief replied: I can't believe this thread is still active.
Danalana replied: It IS hard to believe, but the most informative and valuable in content always last a long time.
Anthony275 replied: maybe it should be pinned?!
PrairieMom replied:
no. I couldn't bring myself to even touch them. GROSS! although, At Al's 18 month appt the Dr found that she still had a bit of umbilical cord in her belly button, and I had to hold Al down while she dug it out. It was super gross. How that could be hanging around in there for a full year and a half is beyond me.
Anthony275 replied: my friend has that, its just hanging out
but i mean i think the horrible part was when i found the stump, i don't know who keeps things like that!
Danalana replied: I think people who eat placentas are fairly good candidates for keeping stumps
Calimama replied:
That's what I was thinking.
luvmykids replied: Oh there are some sick minds in this world
Danalana replied: Monica, I don't think Denise's comment warranted that remark... 
Calimama replied:
luvmykids replied:
Anthony275 replied:
my mom did not eat placentas
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I just snorted the toast I was having........
ew..............
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Anthony275 replied: wait what
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well you know what they say........
Baby...the other *other* white meat.
Get in my BELLEHHHH
I want some baby-back baby-back baby-back rii-iiiibssssssss
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I tinkled myself.
Just a little though.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
See Anthony? I told you your mother probably ate the placenta if she kept the darn stump for so long.......
yo mamma.
Anthony275 replied: no im sure she didn't
she was lucky to have TWO placentas...heck yea..but they both went to waste sadly
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Now HOW could she have done that? Now see, if she'd eaten them, she'd have been in her right mind and maybe kept one in your baby box.
Anthony275 replied: thats not even where i found the stump...it was in a jewelery box on her dresser....jewelery??
Hillbilly Housewife replied: necklace pendant?
are you sure it was a cord stump? wasn't a schmuck?
Anthony275 replied: im sure it was the stump
CantWait replied:
I don't know, I eat Anthony's toes ALL the time, and his tummy, and his neck...
BTW Tara, I LOVE your siggy pic. How ADORABLE!!!!!!!  
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yeah, but I don't see you putting him in a blender.
CantWait replied:
HA!!!!!!!!!
YO MAMMA, been watching YO MAMMA too long Rocky!!!!!!
CantWait replied:
Now that would be one h of a ride
CantWait replied: BTW ya'll, that's 9 pages now.
Great now I'll be up all night checking on this thread, I've got it.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: But Marie....think of the BENEFITS!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Muah ha hahaaa
Anthony275 replied: i thought marie was talking about me until i went to go look back
Hillbilly Housewife replied: dude...this is a pg board. 
Anthony275 replied: oh hush two people with the same name of course im going to get confused
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Geez Marie, I thought I knew you.
Crystalina replied: You are all very odd.
...and I say that with the utmost &
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I could stare at your avatar for hours.
Crystalina replied:
Oh I love her!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: betcha HER mama ate placenta.
I need to get some sleep. Seriously, ya'll.
Danalana replied: I'd like to point out that "placenta" spelled backwards is atnecalp. What do you suppose it means?
Calimama replied:
I LOVE it.. hilarious.
Anthony275 replied:
are you seriously that bored?
Calimama replied:
You're not really one to talk.
Anthony275 replied: im an insomniac so its ok
Danalana replied: I'm not bored at all. I actually think of words in a backwards manner. When we play "cranium", I always do the word things...when we get one that has to be spelled backwards without writing it, I always do it. Last time, I had "delicious", and I spelled it about as quickly backwards as most people do forwards 
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Dana...........
you're almost worse than I am.
Danalana replied:
Almost? What's keeping me from being worse than you?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm in canada. and I'm french.
CantWait replied:
What did I do now???
Geez always getting blamed for something.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: ya made this thread get to 10 pages........... lol
My nails are kind of dirty..grossin me out a little as i'm looking at my fingers typing
CantWait replied:
Correction, that was YOU!!!!!!!!!
CantWait replied:
Yup, especially the french part.
Crystalina replied: Anyone have a Howie Mandel bobble head doll?
(Just because this thread wasn't weird enough )
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Well you know what they say about the french..........
And nooooooo......couldn't possibly be MY fault. I'm too cute to make mistakes.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
not anymore... i dropped it off the last time I was in Wierdsville.
I thnk I left my sanity there, too.
CantWait replied:
Ummm no do they say about the french???
And I won't even comment about being to cute.....etc......
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Aww... what...you don't think I'm cute?
Now I"m going to have to pout.
What they say about the french...... EVERYONE knows that. Don't yank my chain.
Danalana replied:
Man, just when you think you won't need something again....
CantWait replied:
You have a chain???? Well that could be fun, no?
Nope you're not cute Rocky, you're HOTT!!!! Geez quick to pout.
so back to what the french do?
Danalana replied: I can juggle!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
RRaaaooowww..... where's that Tiger icon when you need it?!
Thanks, Marie.
The french are flexible. Very, very flexible.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Really?
CantWait replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
WTH did I do here?!
No, I'm not tired. Duuuuuuuuuh.......
luvmykids replied:
That used to be mine and my dads secret language....I was Special Agent Acinom Eiram
Danalana replied: High five, Monica!!!
And Rocky, you really aren't suppose to edit my posts like that
And I'm pretty sure it's just the one baby. Another one would have shown up somewhere by now, right? Maybe in Connecticut or somewhere.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
But I didn't edit yours..I editted mine! but without edittin git.
If I'd editted them, you'd see the "editted by Hillbilly Housewife" or whatever it says
*snicker*
Connecticut
Connect & Cut
Placenta and Cord
Geez these things have a way of coming back to haunt me...i totally haven't slept the last couple days over this....nightmares I tell ya....
Anthony275 replied: well im not going to bed tonight
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Me either, by the looks of it....
Danalana replied: I'm practically falling asleep right now!
luvmykids replied: I have GOT to go to bed. Just waiting for the load in the dryer to finish b/c it will bug me all night to think of them wrinkling in the dryer
Danalana replied: Monica, all you have to do is turn them on again when you get up. I seriously use my dryer as an iron
And to make sure I stay on topic...
PLACENTA.
luvmykids replied: Oh I'm the queen of the ironing dryer....more than once I've thrown a damp towel in for the purpose of dewrinkling. But I'm trying to get in the habit of folding and putting it away as soon as it's done, it's the one NY resolution I've stuck to, otherwise it rots on the dining room table
Oh-and to stay on topic, the placenta post is now 11 pages I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed
Danalana replied: Oh, you're definitely proud!
luvmykids replied: Sorry, I'll try to tone it down
I'm going to bed. Good Night, and Good Luck!
Danalana replied: Good night!
I should probably go too...
By the time I can see my beloved thread again, it will probably be at page 15!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta
I thought it interesting that there are several cultures stated, along with their use of the placenta... but that the cultures who eat it are too....unknown... (barbaric perhaps?) to even be named on this site.
Maybe most placental mammals just have to chew the umbelical cord off, and then they figure...hey..i've got this mewling ball of fluff attached to one of my 8 boobs... might as well eat *this crap*, since I ain't going anywhere for at least a couple hours, and I'm REALLY HUNGRY. This, baby...this, baby......this...baby..... oh what the hey. I'll eat this.
Danalana replied: And I can juggle 3 things at once!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Don't leave me all alone in my nightly misery!!!!
Placenta
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh goody! Baby, cord and............placenta
CantWait replied:
I thought this two reasons were quite interesting.
Who ever knew about the placenta.
Dang it's 4:00am, this insomnia is killing me.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I, for one, have certainly learned a lot from this thread.
PrairieMom replied:
OMG we are so sick,
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: At least I don't tell my kids to shut the f*** up . STELLAR parenting there, Hillbilly Housewife .
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That's cuz I'm a STAR, duh!
CantWait replied:
Hey now, there's no need for that. No one is insulting your parenting. It's been stated several times in this thread that all the more power to you, but it's not for them. If you can honestly sit there and say that you've never lost your temper with your child then good for you, but I say bs that's a load of hmmm plancenta.
Shame on you. We're here to support eachother not bring eachother down. As women don't we have enough people bringing us down as is, not to have one of our own not standing behind us and offering their support and knowledge.
grapfruit replied:
Just for the record, I'm not attacking.
That being said, everyone snaps. Everyone has bad days. Sometimes things are said, and those things can't be taken back.
I don't think it's fair or nice to blatenly attack somebody that IS a good parent and is there for their kids.
Nobody is saying that your choices are "STELLER", they're your choices. We all respect that. Personally no. I couldn't eat a placenta. To me that's pretty gross, and I'm one that'll try about anything (I've even had tripe). If YOU want to eat it, more power to you. But to me it's a filtering organ, and is just something I wouldn't want to eat.
Everyone is just having fun, if it offends you, stay out of this thread. Otherwise we'll all see it locked or deleted...
katiesmom2002 replied: Cant wait thats good.
I cant believe that this page has 11 pages already i guess everyone likes to talk about placenta lol.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
oh we wouldn't want THAT.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
holley79 replied:
I'm sure we have ALL had our moments. It happens.
No one has attacked your parenting style with this. Everyone has been very good and a lot of interesting facts have come out.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
I'm an adult, I can CONTROL my temper. That's one of the differences between kids & adults . And I most certainly do not use profane language when talking to my kids. I have more repect for them than that.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
What can I say... I didn't eat my placenta!
Guess I should have.
CantWait replied:
Well I guess then that you're the PERFECT parent.
*cough cough, placenta*
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Yup, you should have.
Crystalina replied:
I agree with the whole "not attacking someones parenting" part. That's pretty low. The majority think eating the placenta is nasty and they are having fun with the gross idea of it. I'm sure if you would say it offends you to have people doing that it would stop. I can't read through all these pages again but I did once and never saw anyone saying that you were less of a parent or degraded your character for doing that. I'm one who would not consider it but would gladly hand you a placenta (not mine) on a plate if you wanted it. 
It just doesn't have to get mean. 
CantWait replied:
WOW what can I say, you're making friends.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: So all... let me get this straight.
Everyone here that hasn't eaten placenta and has lost their temper towards their kids... raise your hand.
Everyone here that HAS eaten placenta and has NEVER lost their temper towards their kids... raise your hand.
*peering in the distance..... sees tumbleweeds chasing placentas*
CantWait replied: Once again Rocky, you added a new page.
That's 12, can everybody say 12 pages, ahhhhahhhhhahhhhhh (I'm the count, can't ya tell)
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
We're making fun of placentophragy, not of you. Actually, comments directed to you or about you were either talking about the "facts" of the information you gave, or were positively commending your crunchiness.
So chill out.
So....enough of this......back to cannibalism!
CantWait replied: Sometimes I wish there was a mute button.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh but there is.......it's just eaten at birth.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Hey there's a post on my new myspace, I'll let you add me!
holley79 replied: WOW I'm impressed I think this is the longest post I have seen in a LONG time. Rocky if you decide to have the next maybe you can have a placenta smoothie and you will be a much better person.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
I'm better than most! And am quite proud of that.
I still have part of the placenta in the freezer; I ought to go make another smoothie. It would definitely help improve my mood.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Nah, I'm already stellar. I can't possibly improve.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
That was a joke you know . I'd say you are more along the lines of, well I don't want to say.
holley79 replied:
What satisfaction, for you, comes from making a placenta smoothie? From what I'm reading we don't live in a 3rd world country and have to have our placentas for nurtrional value and strength after birth. I mean come on we have fridges in our houses for nurtrion.
holley79 replied:
Tsk tsk tsk
Back to cannibilism Rocky. Have you dug up any more interesting web sites to share with us to keep us from eating our breakfast.
grapfruit replied:
Ok, see? THIS is attacking. What everyone a page and 1/2 ago was trying to do was DIFUSS the situation. Obviously coming 2 inches from calling somebody a name isn't helping.
All that needs to be said is "Hey guys, I get that you're trying to be funny, but I feel strongly about this subject and it's pretty offensive to me. Can we maybe tone it down a notch and stick more to facts?"
What somebody said a page ago is correct. We are here to SUPPORT, not to attack. While everyone is welcome, nasty comments are not. Judging is not.
I'm an adult and I've lost my temper more then once. THINGS HAPPEN. For the most part, yeah, I can control my temper, but sometimes it gets the best of me. That's one of the things I'm working on.
NOBODY is perfect. Don't forget that. STICK TO THE FACTS. Please.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Go make that smoothie, I hope it works out for you. Enjoy your snack! Buh bye! Talk to you later, on a full stomach... full of PLACENTA!!!!!!
Just for the record, I'm not insulted... so don't worry bout me ya'll. I got big shoulders, I can handle this petty stuff.
So what's for lunch all? I'm having tuna casserole. No placenta here! *phew*
grapfruit replied: I know you do Rocky. It's just some people DON'T (and I'm just speaking in general). I'm just not crazy about people (anybody) getting gained up on. I guess I'm one of those that cheers on the underdog...
I think it's b/c I have strong beliefs, and like to stick by them. Again -->
I also have a great sense of humor, so this DOES amuse me greatly.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Actually...you and I are more alike than you may think. I'm as crunchy as they come, I just don't get all Jehova on people about it and tell them they're horrible parents if they aren't perfect like me.
Enjoy your lunch!
And you're right... i'm not stellar, I'm more... spectacular.
CantWait replied:
The thing is though, Dana started this thread on how gross it was. She shouldn't feel offended because she didn't come up with the bright idea.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Spectacular? Nope, that's not what I was thinking either .
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
No?
how bout Entertaining?
holley79 replied:
It said not for the weak and there has been some "education" come from it. We have also had a good time going back and forth. Kept our insomniacs from being bored.
holley79 replied:
A Spectacular Entertainer?
grapfruit replied:
You won't hear me disagreeing.
Honestly my thought is if you don't like/enjoy/whatever the thread DON'T READ IT. I know I saw in another thread that Jennie thought this one would gross her out so she hasn't been in it. It's as easy as that.
IMO; no different then turning the channel on the tv if there's something "offensive" on it. Wait, that's too simple. Better plan: Lets spend money to "censor" what I watch/listen to/read/etc b/c I'm to stupid/lazy/uneducated/etc to figure out that it's not "good" for me....Ok I need to step off the soap box  Censorship is something I feel strongly about. (if you couldn't tell)
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Oh, possibly ! That will work, I guess.
holley79 replied: We are almost at 300 replies.
This is very entertaining. Glad we are on big happy family and can keep one another in stitches.
tammyhopkins replied: WOW who would have thought that this topic woudl reach such levels.
When it comes to the placenta smoothie as i have said GROSS but to each there own. But if you are so perfect in your parenting i guess it is because you come on boards like this and call out the NORMAL parenting to make yourself feel better.
Sorry but being new on this board i think you shoudl get to know who these people are before judging. I do not post much but sometimes that stuff really annoys me!!!! pregnancy hormones probably will not help lol
CantWait replied: Just so we stay on topic
"Placenta"
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Glad to see ya smiling!
you have to admit though, this thread IS kinda funny.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
ohh you SNEAKY
this post was MINE! 
good thing I ran out of smoothies... woulda mailed you one as a prize.
CantWait replied:
13
holley79 replied: Did you document like in a book or journal that you had a placenta smoothie? I mean was this something celebrated? Is it only for the mom or did the family part take?
grapfruit replied:
Good question
I have one too. I'm just curious on if you know of a website (or book or something) that breaks down the nutritional (why can't I spell that?) value of a placenta.
I just want to see a Nutritianist weigh in on the matter, b/c well I'm curious. I can completely understand why most animals in nature eat it. And can see where early humans might. And also get how some cultures eat it for spiritual reasons. However, I just don't see the concret scientific fact to why somebody in a developed nation w/access to a bountiful food supply and tons of vitiamins and what not would NEED to eat it. I can see why a person in such a place would maybe do so for personal spiritual reasons.....
Can you clarify as well. Is your reason purely spiritual? Nutricianal (spelling again!), or a mixture of both??
edited to add: After I posted that I realized it was more then one question
PrairieMom replied: I was at the grocery store today waling down the isle with the V8 juice in it and guess what came to mind...
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Oh Tara, that's too funny!!
CantWait replied:
I don't think I'll drink V8 juice again.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
not without placenta, anyways.
holley79 replied:
Crystalina replied:
Great questions. I doubt it's a nutritional thing but rather a ritualistic thing (for lack of a better term). I don't want to bring anymore "not the norm" thing into this thread but "ritualistic" is all I could think of for what I'm trying to say.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Just for me, the mom. And no I didn't document it. It's more about the hormones than the nutrition, although the iron and. I've suffered from PPD in the past, and didn't want to go through that again. So I read up on the benefits of the placenta, and that it might help ward off the PPD. It also helps immediately postpartum with hemorrhaging, although I didn't use it for that. It also helps with lactation, and those good "motherly" nuturing hormones as well.
I don't have a link about the nutritional value, I'm sorry.
holley79 replied:
Interesting enough.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4918290.stm
Looks to me more common then not, Planting the placenta as a ritutal is more prominent.
Crystalina replied: If we look at it though we all do things that are not "needed". Painting our nails, piercing our ears (and on infants as well), coloring our hair, tattoos. Some of us eat deer ( I have roadkill in my freezer now ) some of us don't, some of us can eat a rabbit and some would never because that is a "pet". It's what makes the world go around.
I still think placenta eating is gross but some will say having dh process a deer that our neighbor hit with his truck is gross as well. Makes yummy burgers though. All you need is A1 Steak sauce.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Well, I trust the real-life stories I've read of people who've done it over an OB's opinion any day. I'd like to see her proof that it DOESN'T work.
EDIT: Plus Dr's & hospitals make money off of the foreskins and placentas by selling them to the cosmetics companies.
Did you know that some cosmetics have placental extracts in them, along with foreskins from circumcised boys?
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/01/30/Foreskin/
http://www.carefair.com/Skincare/Placenta_...etics_1924.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1..._cosmetics.html
That'll give y'all something to think about !
Crystalina replied:
Yes, this I knew. We would all be shocked and amazed (me, more amazed because at this point nothing shocks me or deters me much) what is in our everyday products.
For example here is how a cow is used:
How Cow Body Parts are Used
Links - Information on How Cow Body Parts are Used .....
One cow, hundreds of uses
OregonLive.com, January 05, 2004
What are cow parts used for?"
HEAD:
Brain:
Uses of brain and spinal-cord material:
Headcheese and some processed meats.
Beef broth
Beef flavering and extract
Animal and pet food
Nutritional suppliments
Human food, laboratory use, veterinary medicines, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics.
Ears:
Rendering (meat and bone meal and tallow)
Eyes:
dissection in schools, laboratory use (retina)
Head and Cheek Meat:
Human food, pet food
Horns:
Gelatin, fire-extinguiisher foam, buttons, handles, animal feed, fertilizer
Lips:
Human food
Tongue:
Human food, pet food, animal feed
Tonsils:
Pet food
Trachea:
Pet food, pharmaceuticals (chondroitin)
MEAT:
Fat:
Human food (suet, lard, argarine), toothpaste, ointents, topically applied medicines and cosmetic products, shortening, chewing gum, adhesives for animal feeds, lubricants, soap, candles, glycerin
Red Meat:
Human food, pet food
Tail:
Human food
Tendons:
Pharmaceuticals (elastin)
ORGANS
Abomasum:
Human food, pharmaceuticals (pepsin), pet food, animal feed
Adrenal:
Pharmaceuticals (steroids), laboratory use
Bladder:
Animal food
Gall:
Pharmaceuticals, cleaning agent in leather manufacture, paint and dye manufacture
Gallstones:
Pharmaceuticals
Gut contents:
Fertilizer
Heart:
Human food, medical devices, pet food, laboratory use
Intestines, large:
Laboratory reagents, animal feed
Kidneys:
Human food, pet food
Liver:
Human food, pet food
Lungs:
Pet food, Pharmaceuticals (heparin and anticogulant), surfactant
Lymph nodes:
Human food, pet food
Esophagus:
Human food, pet food, animal feed
Omasum:
Human food, pet food
Pancreas:
Pharmaceuticals, human food as "sweetbread," together with the thymus (insulin)
ORGANS
Placenta:
Pharmaceuticals (Glycosamine), cosmetics
Reproductive organs:
Pharmaceuticals, pet food
Reticulum:
Human food (tripe), pet food, animal feed
Rumen:
Human food (tripe), pet food, animal feed
Skirt: (diaphragm):
Human food
Spleen:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics
Thymus:
Human food (as insweetbread") together with pancreas, cosmetics
Udder:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals
Umbilical:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals
Uterus:
Pharmaceuticals (glycosamine)
SKELETON
Bones - including the raw fat contained in the bones, which is obtained from processing them:
Tallow, gelatine, candles, glue, buttons, handles, bone meal, adhesives for animal feed, lubricants, pet food, soap, glycerine, pharmaceuticals, surgical implants.
Spinal cord:
Human food, laboratory use, veterinary medicines, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics.
Cholesterol; neural lipids
Used in:
- Headcheese and some processed meats.
- Beef broth
- Beef flavering and extract
- Animal and pet food
- Nutritional suppliments
BLOOD
Blood:
Human food, Pharmaceuticals (serum base for many vaccines), surgical implants, pet food, adhesives for animal feed, leather preparation, glue, fertilizer, fire-extinguisher foam, mordant
Leukocytes:
Growth factors
Plasma:
Fire-extinguisher foam, Pharmaceuticals
Red cells:
Pharmaceuticals
SKIN / HIDE
Skin / Hide:
Gelatin, Pharmaceuticals, collagen, leather, felt (from hair), fertilizer
FEET
Feet / Hooves:
Gelatine, human food, pet food, glue, buttons, handles, neatsfoot oil, lubricants, cow-heel jelly, bone meal, fire-extinguisher foam, fertilizer bile acids, bilirubin
FLUIDS
Bile:
Pharmaceuticals (!!!)
Nasal septum:
WASTE
Waste from the carcass:
Burial, landfill, incineration
Waste from other industries:
Burial, landfill, incineration, sewage.
::ETA::
Check it out! Even a cow placenta is in cosmetics.
holley79 replied:
Yep, actually I did know this about the cosmetics. I just wonder if someone using placenta as a PPD deterrent just doesn't get it in their head they have eaten placenta and therefore they shall not suffer. Don't know.
Anthony275 replied: you guys have all the fun without me
Crystalina replied:
...maybe it has to be your own placenta?
This has to totally be a mind thing.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh yeah that's totally what get ME. It's not so much the fact that's it's "placenta", it's that I squeezed it out like a turd. It's not like I'm 5 and snarfed a booger... it's an organ. If my eyeball suddenly came out, I wouldn't squeeze the goo into a spoon, kwim? (sorry...I just had an appointment to see if I'm going to need to get laser surgery in my right eye again for a "touch up")
I'm North American Indian descent... and I've gotten involved with some cultural practices in the last few years, learning more about it etc... and what is involved with killing an animal for food..vs killing for fun, or hunting. ALL parts are used, be it the skin for clothing or warmth, the meat for food, the organs for the pets kept or dried and ground as colorant for dyes, the veins as thread, the bones as tools or for carvings... bone jewellery is very pretty.. and so on and so on... so the thought of eating a placenta doesn't gross me out. it's the thought of eating HUMAN placenta that just sends shivers of disgust down my back.
Heck I've eaten lamb brain. non-human Placenta would be a breeze.
PS - I don't use cosmetics, and those that I do use, in the last few years anyways, are organic.
katiesmom2002 replied: Oh Wow i couldnt live with out makeup, how do you do it lol i am addicted to makeup. Im a diva i guess lol
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
And statistics show that it's certainly the "norm" around here...
So what's your favorite face cream or perfume, ya'll? I don't use any, but if I did, it would be "Eau de Placenta", or maybe "Scent of Schmuck"
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Dunno...just not a fan of makeup. I used to sell Mary Kay though, go figure.
sparkys2boys replied: Ok you dont come on for a few days and THIS is what I come back to..lol... ewwwwwwwwww.. focus people focus!!!!!!
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
I have my sources . Actually I know of 2 people whom I'm close to that have done this, and that it worked.
I don't use cosmetics either. Not a single one.
Crystalina replied:
I have to use foundation around my eyes and eyeliner. If that's all I had I'd be happy. I'm a simple person but not simple enough not to where eyeliner!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well I'm all for worldwide studies and all... and I mean "officially recognized by the medical society", btw...
maybe it just worked because they thought it would? Placebo effect, ya know? The mind is a powerful thing. I know MY mind is certainly strong enough...not to eat placenta.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh - and darn... you got the top of the page post.
Crystalina replied:
Keep going Rocky, you may get the top of page 15!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm trying my best!
grapfruit replied: I have to say, this is getting rather interesting
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
what, the rest wasn't?
I don't think slopping placenta on my face in a cream would bother me nearly as much as getting any IN my mouth.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Hey did we lose some posts?
Anthony275 replied: 17 pages...
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
not yet... lol
boyohboyohboy replied: I have stayed out of this post as a proper member
but i have to admit it is addicting..
you are some really interesting people.
Anthony275 replied: for me its 17
grapfruit replied: I have another question for SEWmama
You mentioned that you believe real-life stories that you've read. My question is about that statement. How do you know they're real stories? I'm just curious. This subject is starting to facinate me. I'm a fact finder for sure.
Crystalina replied:
Who are you? Look at all those posts! Did you change your name?
Insanemomof3 replied: LOL This thread is hilarious...and as for sewingmama or whatever...what kind of parent would she think I was if she knew all the stuff I have done...and No, I never ate placenta, guess that is my problem.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Are you trying to say we're not proper members? lol
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Denise, you're a GREAT mother.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Starting??
Anthony275 replied: hahahahahahaha
Calimama replied: Wow, look at all the views for this thread!
grapfruit replied:
Ok, it's BEEN interesting. Better?
Crystalina replied: Ok, so I went to YouTube (where I get all my facts ) and found this.
Someone pass the garlic and onions!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: much, thanks.
Crystalina replied: so in the clip...a vegetarian won't eat it if it's an animal but she's all for taking a bite out of a human.
Anthony275 replied: yum looks like curry!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Oh CRYSTAL.
Insanemomof3 replied: LOL!
lisar replied:
Okay I could have went my entire life without seeing that clip and I didnt even make it all the way thru.
BTW....Thanks Crystal.
Anthony275 replied: don't forget to give your kids a cup of placenta every morning!!!
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Because they are my IRL friends, and I trust them . We just don't get to meet face to face much. And they have shared info on where to find other stories as well, and I trust them. I trust them more than anyone in a white coat with an MD, DO, or whatever behind their name, that's for sure.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Cannibalism, I tell you.
Calimama replied:
Nassssssty!!
Anthony275 replied: you mean delicious
grapfruit replied:
Ok, that makes sense. I was just wondering.
Ok. I do have another question (these darn things keep popping in my head).....what does it taste like? Seriously.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
She said she couldn't taste it when it was mixed with V8 and carrots... but...how did the friends eat it?
holley79 replied:
I wonder how many ways there are to eat placenta?
One of the websites I was reading said one woman was eating it like a steak with mushrooms and onions.
No thank you.
Anthony275 replied: mmmmm yummy
Calimama replied:
I couldn't bring myself to TOUCH it.. let alone put it on my mouth.
holley79 replied: Like I said it was bad enough when I saw the Dr "checking" the placenta. There is no way I could have asked to take it home with me.
PrairieMom replied:
Well, if its on the internet you know its true. I have seen this before.
I'm hungry.
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
I know one ate part of it raw, not sure what she did with the rest, the other dried it & capsulated it. There's lots of different ways to prepare it.
And these friends are way crunchier than me. They've converted me on lots of things.
holley79 replied:
I just wonder though how one comes back to decide in todays society they are going to "eat" their placenta. I understand the planting of it in Hawaii and stuff like that as a ritual but I have never been with a group of moms who were expecting and someone just go, "Guess what after I give birth I'm going to eat my placenta." I guess that's why I'll never "get it" because I don't understand the mentality behind it.
Calimama replied:
Same with me. Reading up on it has made me even more confused.
gr33n3y3z replied: This is still going wow
moped replied: Sick!
grapfruit replied:
So did she tell you what it tasted like raw???? I wonder about the texture.....
boyohboyohboy replied:
CALEBSMOM..
yes i changed my name..
it was my attempt at sarcasism since i dont usually participate in these types of things.
but this has definetly gotten interesting..
i think i am a proper member..not much controversy here.
boyohboyohboy replied:
not at all, i said you are interesting!
and such a way with words..the visuals here are unreal!
Anthony275 replied: you love it!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: lol
I don't think I could do it raw, ever. Although, I do like my steak Black and Blue.
My3LilMonkeys replied: You got back on top!!!
Crystalina replied:
OH!
I couldn't for the life of me figure out who you were. I didn't know you changed your name.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I know! Isn't it awesome?
Crystalina replied: 
Anthony275 replied: imagine you give birth at the hospital, instead of wrapping up the newborn they wrap up the placenta and hand it to you, with a hat on and everything...
HOW CUTE
luvmykids replied: OMG Crystal, ROFLMBO
Crystalina replied:
I've found so many.
Calimama replied:
I love that one.
grapfruit replied:
Somebody wasn't paying attention (She made a post about it the other day, which is good b/c I would of been confused too!)
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Bah the name changes don't confuse me too much... it's the SIGGYS that get me!
Speaking of which... Crystal...wanna find me a new siggy?
Crystalina replied:
Nope, I wasn't paying attention.
I was too busy washing my placenta.
Oh Lord now I'm doing it!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Crystalina replied:
My psp isn't working! It hasn't for almost 2 mos. now. I've uninstalled it and re-installed it but nothing. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see what's up. I pd almost $100 for that program. Not to mention it was like another appendage.
Crystalina replied: Rocky, I left you a little placenta on your MySpace.
Anthony275 replied: crystal, for your next baby, do you want a boy, girl, or a placenta?
Crystalina replied:
None of the above. Another kid is another noise and the placenta will surely start to funk after awhile.
Anthony275 replied: crystal i left rocky a better gift on her myspace
Crystalina replied:
You told me you didn't haaaaaaave a MySpace. Snot!
Crystalina replied: Send it to me, I can't read it on hers.
Anthony275 replied: with my total of 11 friends and 77 views that i never spoke to you about?!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Is it an appendage you thought about eating?
Crystalina replied:
I've requested you as a friend. Just add me already!
Crystalina replied:
Anthony275 replied: crystal dosent know what a guido is
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
It's pretty funny.
Anthony275 replied: i forgot what it was
but dont tell crystal please i want the suspense to kill her
Crystalina replied:
Goober.
Crystalina replied: LOL Rocky I see you found the dinner. I knew you'd get a kick out of that.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
For SURE!
Crystalina replied:
I'll have to take your word for it since he isn't sending it to me. 
Anthony275 replied: im sorta ashamed to have the same nationality as shown on the box
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Placenta?
Calimama replied:
Hamburger helper is NOT Italian. Regardless of what Betty Crocker would have you believe..
Anthony275 replied: i know..neither is olive garden
but you know....theres an italian flag on the box
Calimama replied: What a way to slander the Italian name..
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Sorry Anthony..... lol
Anthony275 replied: you made me enraged now
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Suck it up, afterbirth...
Anthony275 replied: ew
CantWait replied:
Ok I can almost, and I mean almost see a mother's point in eating their own placenta (ok maybe almost is stretching it), but other humans eating it (as in that YouTube video ) That's just plain cannobolism if you ask me.
I mean really, come over this weekend so we can have a placenta party 
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
you know...i've taken a long break tonight.. but have refrained from researching whther eating youself is really cannibalism. Others eating a piece of you, YES. EW. But yourself?
Then again, the darn steak IS half you and half baby... so... I just don't know anymore.
Crystalina replied:
Yes, I know what you mean. This is all so confusing.
And thanks for posting that comic. LOL funny!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: no problem!
Anthony275 replied: so whats for dinner
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Hamburger Placenta.
Boo&BugsMom replied: Ok, I caved and read the thread and have to say I am thoroughly grossed out. But, I am also laughing at the sight of someone actually doing it at the same time. Sounds wacko to me, but if it TRULY is what it is...then more power to you if you can stomach it...I guess. EEK! And NEVER would I eat anyone elses, much less my own. THAT is over the top!!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Haa Jennie, I knew you'd cave.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
I hate not knowing something, of course I caved.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: So who's next to join the darkside? muah ah ahah aha
Crystalina replied:
Maybe Tom?
Anthony275 replied: this thread is delicious
HuskerMom replied: Wow I've learned so much from this thread.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
From myspace?
Calimama replied:
The guy in your siggy gives me the creeps!!
grapfruit replied:
ITA!!!
I giggled at first. but the more I see him the more willies I get
Crystalina replied:
No! Tom in your siggy.
Cruise.
Anthony275 replied: 
this?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
oh duhhhhhh........... yeah that's Tom Cruise
Danalana replied: Okay, this is something I have observed in my research into the placenta-eating world. And also, having a mother on my pregnancy board who is planning on eating half and then freezing the rest...
We talk about it not being the "norm", which I think the majority of people in the US would agree with. BUT there is a whole culture of people who think it is natural. The lady on my board has some of the same blinkies sewing mama has, and I'm wondering if people who participate in eating placentas are a whole little group of people who feel the same way about many things. Like, the lady on the other board is very much into co-sleeping, and often berates other mothers who put their babies in cribs. She thinks formula is "junk" and should be thrown in the garbage. She almost never drives because of the damage her "dead dinosaur burner" does to the environment. She thinks a birth is something that requires no assistance at all, as it is not a medical event. She hates the goverment and makes almost everything she or her kids wear so as to avoid supporting the government...this includes boycotting shopping at Christmas. I could go on and on, but I will stop here. I didn't bring these out to be judgmental. BUT, from the other sites I have been to, it seems that most people who are into eating placenta pretty much think along the same lines. I know anybody can subscribe to some of these ways of thinking, but it has to be more than a coincidence that every one of these ladies I've gotten to know at all believe the same things.
Anyway, that's that.
Crystalina replied: I put this in the wrong thread so I'm adding it here:
seriously though, I've been surfing the web about this and a lot of people are doing this. And they share it like in the video. I'm really wondering who did it first and why. I know for survival maybe back in the caveman days but the modern person. The ritual was more then likely imported from another country.
Crystalina replied:
Sounds like she should join the Amish.
Or move to another country.
Anthony275 replied: mm dana are you going to follow those guidelines
Hillbilly Housewife replied: As far as I'm concerned... clothe diapering, being environmentally saavy, breastefeeding has nothing to do with whether you eat your placenta or not, but I've noticed the same thing from browsing other boards for more insight. Most of them do seem to enjoy berating others by telling them they are using junk and harming their children when they vax them etc...
I'm all for using less processed stuff, and doing my reasearch on vax... But I'm not about to go telling a mom that she's torturing her child by letting him\her cry a little in order to get some sleep and be a better mother from having had SOME rest, and I'm not about to berate the feeding of a child with formula, claiming it's crap and it's unhealthy etc... if it was so unhealthy, it wouldn't have been around for so many years.
There's a reason that the "hippies" were kinda pushed out of being hippies... there's a reason that "era" was over. Not everyone can live on love... thos who do now most likely also live off of some sort of welfare plan... and I would bet a lot of things that most of these mama crunchies have some sort of financial assistance. More power to them if they don't, though. I mean I like being craft and thrifty and stuff... but I don't do it out of necessity, nor to stick it to da man... i just do it because I like it.
Danalana replied: Nope, Anthony....I don't share the same views.
I am going to breastfeed, but I don't tell people they stink for bottle feeding.
Sure, I have my own views about disciplining a child, etc....but I don't go around and tell people they aren't "good" if they don't feel the same way.
That might sound hypocritical after I started a thread on the grossness of eating placenta But you gotta admit, it's not something most people would consider.
Crystalina replied:
I bottle fed and breast fed. (breast because I didn't want them to be murderers when they grew up. You never know. And bottle because I wanted to make sure they were getting fed. Ok...and they slept good. )
I co-sleep only because dh is gone and I like to know where they are. I'm paranoid not "crunchy".
I used regular diapers because I'm too lazy to wash out the cloth.
I vax because my mom did to me and my doctor tells me to.
Oh, and we eat red meat.
My kids are going to be all kinds of messed up!
grandma replied: Geesj = I had no clue what I was missing by avoiding this thread...too funny!
My mom told me today that they were taking Emeril off the air. Made me wonder if he was being replaced by "Cooking with Placenta."
You guys are to darn funny.......
Danalana replied: LOL, I think co-sleeping is great...it's just not for us. Both of our dogs are inside dogs and sleep with us. They would cry all night long if they couldn't sleep there. Plus, I'm sure there's dog hair and I don't want him lying in that anyway. My BIL and his wife co-sleep with their son STILL, and he's 8. I might sound selfish, but after 8 years, I want some room! I don't have a problem with co-sleeping at all. As far as vaccinating, I think the pros outweigh any potential problems. I might, however, space them out a little bit. I know people have different views on different things, and that's great. It's just ironic to me that the placenta-eaters kinda share the same views on everything.
Danalana replied:
and
They're taking Emeril off the air??? What kind of nonsense is this?
I mean, i want a cooking show devoted to preparing placenta as much as the next person, but taking Emeril off the air is extreme.
grapfruit replied: People that say "feeding your baby formula is wrong" make me mad. Some people simply CAN'T nurse. My youngest nephew wouldn't. He wouldn't latch on. Plus he had some medical problems so that didn't help matters. She tried, couldn't and now feeds him formula. Is she a bad mom b/c of that? I don't think THAT perticular thing makes her a bad mom....
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
grandma replied:
I guess he has been on the air for like five years and has stayed behind the times by not presenting any "Placenta" based dishes
grandma replied:
I thought you were gonna say "Now she feeds him placenta".....okay I'll stop now.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
back on topic I see
Crystalina replied:
I think things may have changed since Evan was born 4 yrs ago but with both of my kids I had to lie and say I was breast feeding or bottle feeding. They wanted one or the other. I said breast because I could always introduce the bottle at home which is what I did. Why can't they do both? The breast was easy at night. You don't have to get out of bed at all to make a bottle. Call it lazy, I call it genius. I got to sleep unlike all those poor mothers who wake up to make a bottle or don't co-sleep and have to get out of bed to breast feed. I wasn't having that. Baby in bed, booby in bed...me sleeping. It was all pretty selfish really.
grandma replied:
I have to go home now, I wish I would have caught this thread back when it started....
Crystalina replied:
Emeril used to say BAM!
The new show will say PLACENTA!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: lol
Crystal I did the same thing. Who cares? my babies were fed, and they slept.
Didn't make them any less smart. My 5 year old reads sentences, my 4 year old reads most simple words now, and my 2 year old recognizes the letters by sight, makes most of the correct sounds for them, and speaks in complete full sentences in both english and french. It's all hogwash, and completely related to how the parents interact with their child, not on what they eat.
grapfruit replied:
You know my other nephew got both. He went to day care b/c my SIL HAS to work. She obviously can't run to the babysitter's and nurse him. So the obvious answer was a bottle. Of course she pumped, so it was breast milk, but she's a little girl and had trouble producing enough so I believe they supplemented w/formula. What else can you do??
But she loved nursing him and did. What's wrong w/that? I think find what works and do it.
grapfruit replied:
ITA!
Anthony275 replied:
ehh i was kinda leaning towards saving the placenta and barbequeing it for kade's first birthday, but all that stuff is ok too lol
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Dana? no bbq?
I'm depressed.
grandma replied: Please don't make me have to catch up by reading 18 more pages tomorrow, it's called sleep people
Crystalina replied:
Well! It's your fault your depressed. You should have had your placenta.
Geesh.
Danalana replied: I think I actually prefer it roasted. That's what I will probably be going with.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yeah I wish I could get more than a few hours each night...... lol
grapfruit replied:
Road trip to AL!!!!!! Seriously Dana, I think I'll settle for a steak or a burger or something. I'll let Anthony have my share of placenta.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yeah... I'm thinking I will when I have the next baby.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh well count me in!
I suddenly want roast beef... I mean..human.....
CantWait replied:
Omgosh I love it. I got this funny lump in my throat.
I thought this thread was dead it sat silent most of the day. I'm so glad it's at 19 now.
lmao
grapfruit replied:
Ah! Caught you! Aren't you fixed?
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Yum yum dinner time... i'll be back later... and I'll tell ya'll about what I had.
CantWait replied:
So they're all crazy
Crystalina replied:
Nope, wasn't dead. Just waiting for the lunatics to get on.
Anthony275 replied: in the showtime rotisserie?
Calimama replied:
Fixed!? She's not a dog Casey...
CantWait replied:
Nice one grandma, you're starting to fit in nicely
CantWait replied:
I don't do that well. Maybe I should try placenta, that might help.
CantWait replied:
HA!!!!!!!!!
Nice one!!
PrairieMom replied: Anyone who doesn't eat their placenta after all we have learned here is just plain stupid. Cut and dried.
Crystalina replied:
OOOh!
Placenta Jerky!!
CantWait replied:
DUH, I didn't get 20. 
sparkys2boys replied: This just keeps getting better and better
PrairieMom replied:
Danalana replied: The thing that makes me sd is that I only have ONE placenta. Two would be amazing...
Crystalina replied: You know, I wonder if there is a market for placenta. For real! I wonder if people buy them just to consume or if it is only "beneficial" to the owner and her nearest and dearest?
CantWait replied: OK here's a serious question, seriously.
If you ate someone else's placenta, and you weren't the same blood type, couldn't that be bad?
Danalana replied:
Probably not if you made jerky.
But if you eat it directly out of the womb, while it's still dripping with blood.....possibly.
grapfruit replied:
LoL, I know. What's the proper phrase-ology?
Danalana replied: I believe the correct phraseology is "got the plumbing covered". Something like that.
PLACENTA.
Anthony275 replied:
with ivf you wouldve gotten that..maybe more
are you jealous of kate gosselin?
Danalana replied:
I might be! Especially is I knew who she was...
EDIT: I remember who she is now....except for the placentas, I'm not jealous. I have seen commercials of the show, and her life appears to be utter chaos.
Anthony275 replied: nah, she's just crazy and has mad ocd
My3LilMonkeys replied: In case anyone is bored with eating plain placenta....here's some recipes for you!
(found at www.gentlebirth.org)
Placenta Recipes (Mothering Magazine, September 1983, Vol. 28, pg 76) Each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. Cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes.
Placenta Cocktail: 1/4 cup raw placenta, 8oz V-8 juice, 2 ice cubes, 1/2 cup carrot. Blend at high speed for 10 seconds
Placenta Lasagne: Use your favorite lasagne recipe and substitute this mixture for one layer of cheese. In 2 tbl. olive oil, quickly saute meat of 3/4 placenta, ground or minced plus 2 sliced cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/2 diced onion & 2 tbl. tomato paste, or 1 whole tomato.
Placenta Spaghetti: Cut meat of 3/4 placenta into bite size pieces, then brown quickly in 1 tbl. butter plus 1 tbl. oil. Then add 1 large can tomato puree, 2 cans crushed pear tomatoes, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 tbl. molasses, 1 bay leaf, 1 tbl. rosemary, 1 tsp. ea. of salt, honey, oregano, basil, and fennel. Simmer 1 1/2 hours.
Placenta Stew: Meat of 3/4 placenta in bite size chunks, 1 potato (cubed), 1/4 cup fresh parsley, 2 carrots, 3 ribs celery, 1 zucchini, 1 large tomato, 1 small onion. Dredge meat in 1 tbl. flour mixed with 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp. paprika, pinch of cloves, pinch of pepper, 6-8 crushed coriander seeds. Saute meat in 2 tbl. oil, then add vegetables (cut up) and 4-5 cups of water. Bring to full boil, then simmer for 1 hour.
Placenta Pizza: Grind placenta. Saute in 2 tbl. olive oil with 4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme, and 1/4 cup of wine. Allow to stand for 30 minutes, then use with your favorite home made pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping.
Danalana replied: Mmmmmmm, I LOVE spaghetti! Sounds gooooooooood!
Anthony275 replied: hahahahah yo i found that website a few days ago
CantWait replied:
MoonMama replied: Ok I have stayed out of this tapic for the most part because.
But man you guys are too much sometimes!
PrairieMom replied:
I'm gonna say no, because the blood would have to directly enter your bloodstream to hurt you. The same reason why you can eat raw beef and be okay.
PrairieMom replied:
Discard the membrane!? Are you serious? what a waste! those things aren't easy to come by. I can't imagine wasting an entire membrane
Anthony275 replied: im amazed how i can be eating right now and reading this discussion
Calimama replied:
Me too... this thread is good for a diet.
mom2my2cuties replied:
I made the mistake of telling my mom this after we had lunch out today....She actually lost her lunch over it...Especially when I showed her the "Placenta Helper" picture
What's even funnier is that I'm munching on Cherry Sours as I type this...
Calimama replied:
I think I would fine with those if they weren't red.
mom2my2cuties replied: And they have that nice chewy center
Calimama replied:
Oh I think cherry sours are gone from my diet forever.. thanks.
mom2my2cuties replied:
Mine too now. But at least I finished the bag before typing that about the chewy centers.
Oddly enough, I can't figure out why I find this post so amusing...I have such a very weak stomach. This could be why I've woken up in the middle of the night puking for the last few days.
*jabs Rocky & Anthony & Monica & Crystal & Dana* It's all ya'lls fault!!!!!!!!!
PrairieMom replied: Do you guys really think that this thread is that disgusting? you wouldn't last 10 minutes in my line of work. this is mild mild mild.
Calimama replied:
Yeah I get grossed out REALLY easily.
PrairieMom replied:
mom2my2cuties replied: Tara *smacks my head* I am sorry I called you Monica by accident.
I am one of those people who can think of something and get sick to thier stomach about it. Even things that happened YEARS ago...I still get pukey over it.
eta: I wonder if I eat the placenta the nausea would go away...
Anthony275 replied: 26 pages....
Calimama replied:
It's only 21 for me.
Anthony275 replied: i think i changed something in my settings to make it less
PrairieMom replied:
I have seen and done some pretty gross things, that make this seem like nothing at all, and never once puked. I retched once, but thats it.
Calimama replied:
You have a stronger stomach than I do.
DillsMommy replied: OMG, this thread is still going! I haven't been on in a day or two-- I thought for sure it would be over by now.
What I'm still trying to figure out, and I have been thinking about this all day--Is how would anyone ever think it would be a good thing to eat placenta. You know, like the first person to try it. What would make them want to. I'm guessing someone was just so hungry after surviving off of only ice chips for hours (and who's bright idea was it anyways, to give a pregnant woman ONLY ice chips ) that it must have sounded pretty good. "Hey don't get rid of that thing, toss it up here, let me gnaw on it for a while"
I personally could never eat anything that came OUT of my body, and especially that came from down below....
grandma replied:
You took the words right out of my mouth - placenta jerky...now chew on that
grandma replied: Oh thank God, I think some of the crazy funny people are watching tv or cooking placenta something (the strangest ones apparently don't sleep-ever).
Just to think that some ppl I know here in MI won't even eat venison (deer) meat. Can you see their faces when I try to get them to try our new favorite
DillsMommy replied:
I won't eat deer meat either......
grandma replied:
My son is a big hunter, fisherman, so we eat all that good stuff (part of the reason I'm open to try 'new' things).
Anthony275 replied: somebody wanna email rachael ray giving her these tasty meals???
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
not yet....
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Geez Tara!!! Starting to type what you want to, huh? Feels good, huh?
Danalana replied: I'm with Tara on the membrane thing. I guess people think membranes grow on trees...what a bunch of wasteful people!
For some reason, this just came to mind...tell me if you're feeling it too...
PLACENTA SLURPIE...not quite as thick as a smoothie. And icier!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Would be fabulous on a hot summer day!
Danalana replied: Rocky, I knew you would agree
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
But of course... who wouldn't want one?
Anthony275 replied: i dont
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
ah...sticking to the smoothie, are you?
Danalana replied: Anthony can't possibly understand because he can never push a placenta from his loins.
Anthony275 replied: no im just afraid to look at this thread now, just gimme until tomorrow please
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol... poor guy
CantWait replied: So wow, we've learned we can make
Placenta lasagna
" stew
"smoothie
"spagetti
"bbq steak
"hambugar helper
"pate
What else can we add to the list that I'll never eat again?
Crystalina replied:
Maybe we can start our own PCP Cookbook! (Parenting Club Placenta)
No, what's really nasty is my sis and I went to Chinese today and she came back with a plate of sweet and sour pork. I had to laugh and tell her about this thread! It looked so placenta-ish on her plate!
CantWait replied:
Ohhhhhhhhh I so would have killed ya. LOL I hope she had a good sense of humor about it
NASTY!!!!!!
Crystalina replied: Yes, she has 7 kids but she's had 8 placentas so she's used to it. And she's an emergency room RN so she's seen it all and it doesn't phase her.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
She's had 8? Wow. She must be Stellar.
I don't even think I could have a piece of one.
Crystalina replied:
Yes, she could have made 8 smoothies!
One birth was a set of twins! Lucky her. We could have sent everyone home with their own little placenta doggie bags. I hear they are great warmed up the next day.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh I heard that too. I think I'd prefer it raw, though.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Um... wait a minute. Maybe I'm reading it wrong... but 7 kids, and 8 placentas? with a set of twins? wouldn't that be 7 pregnancies and 8 placentas? Or, 6? do twins even share a placenta?
I'm confused now.
Unless the placenta had a placenta of its very own...?
Crystalina replied:
She's had 7 pgs and 8 placentas right?
The twins where fraternal so wouldn't they have their own placenta? or is it just one placenta for the two? I have no clue!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well it would either be one placenta for each baby... or one for each baby except for the twins sharing one, possibly... but if they were fraternal, one each... so... 7 kids, 7 placentas....
Where'd the extra one come from?!
Crystalina replied:
Oh yes! My numbers were off. I see what your saying.
Ok, 7 kids and 7 placentas. I'm sorry I was thinking she had a spare in case someone needed a snack or something. The other kids are always eating.
CantWait replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Too bad.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Do you think eventually men will be able to have one of their very own?
Danalana replied: Mmmmm, let me tell you what's GOOD. Placenta burrito!
You cut it into sections and then discard the membranes (of course!). Then, you simply scramble it with some eggs and diced onions. Salsa is optional, but I highly recommend it. Without it, it just tastes like placenta, eggs, and onions.
Anyway, it goes in a flour tortilla and.....YUM!!!
The neighbors will be coming over in droves when they smell it. You might not like what they have to say, but they'll be coming over!
PrairieMom replied:
hee hee
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Now......that's chicken eggs, right?
Danalana replied: Yes! Well, mine were. But I suppose you could use any kind. Except yours.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Are you telling me I shouldn't eat my own eggs?
grandma replied: Good Morning my Placenta experts.......at it again huh?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well I wouldn't say I'm an expert yet. Yes, I've read up on it for, I'm ashamed to say... a couple of hours... BUT, I haven't tasted it, so I cannot possibly know it all.
Danalana replied: Well, I DO know it all....so thank you
And Rocky, if you can get your own eggs out, you can eat them.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I'll have to ponder on that one.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: ahah ahhah ah
I got the top!
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: Is this thread EVER going to die ?
grandma replied:
You are all things to me....lol
Danalana replied:
I don't believe so, no
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
Bummer. Have fun y'all!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Nah...think of all the people who learned something!
Danalana replied: I agree...we're into education around here!
grandma replied:
with a splash of HUMOR.....lol
mommy~to~a~bunch replied:
I think the educational part is over with now, just let it go for crying out loud .
CantWait replied:
Would they push it out their a$$.
Makes sense really, that's what placenta must taste like.
grandma replied:
There's more to life than education 
CantWait replied:
No one is making you come in and read this thread.
Kaitlin'smom replied: dang you all.........23 pages
grapfruit replied: Yeah I was shocked to see 23 pages I had to go ALL the way back to page 19 to start reading again
mommy~to~a~bunch replied: You'd think with all of the off-topic posts, it would've been locked a LONG time ago.
PrairieMom replied:
I think its been able to stay open so long because we are all playing so nicely here and just bing silly. No harm.
I think the topic has somehow been morphed from eating placenta to just plain ol being strange.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Why would it have been locked? Just because a post goes off topic, doesn't mean it gets locked. If that were the case, just about everything in here would get locked.
If you don't like it, you don't have to return to the post again and again.
But back to the topic...Placenta.
sparkys2boys replied:
I agree, noone forces anyone into a certain thread to read or to respond. We are all about educating and having some fun in here. If you cant have a laugh and reduce some stress with people who have a sense of humor what can you do?
Hey Rocky.. whats for supper BTW..lol??
Crystalina replied: I think we have gone off topic here and there but even with that it returns back to the placenta eating ways and I learn something or question something.
I'm seriously wondering about the taste. The video said it was liverish. I love liver so I may be one to take a bite. Not.
And nobody has touched yet on what I said about selling it to anyone to eat. I wonder if you can.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I'm certainly not stressed, that's for sure.
Must have been the placenta
Crystalina replied:
If there is something you would rather talk about you are allowed to start another topic.
sparkys2boys replied:
LOL.. good point!!!! Im not stressed either but just saying it is ok to have some fun in here Pass the placenta helper would ya
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I must have missed that one... or i'd have been on it like a mom on placenta!
I don't know. It's illegal to sell human body parts...
But then again, it's also illegal to eat a human body part, and this is an exception. Hmmm. I know they can be sold for other purposes, but I wonder, to eat...?
Crystal, you should open a "Crunchy's" Restaurant, with the main dish being Placenta. You could easily strike a deal with a few hospitals for your supplies, I'm so sure...
Maddie&EthansMom replied:
ROFLMBO!!! OMG I'm crying!!!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Awww Aimee...don't cry.... eat some placenta, that will stabilize your hormone levels and make you loopy..er..happy!
Crystalina replied:
CRYSTAL'S CRUNCHY'S"
Is it still a body part if the some people think of it as waste?
How is that any different then selling your poo...if you wanted to that is?.
holley79 replied: I figure they sale other things as Delicacies why not placenta, right?
mom2my2cuties replied:
I thought about this too.... Holley know anyone who wants to buy one in a few weeks
PrairieMom replied: Did you know that if you do a EBAY search for placenta 29 items come up?
holley79 replied:
As Tara mentioned, place it on Ebay.
mom2my2cuties replied: Human Placenta For Sale
Guess it's allowed if it's done tastefully
holley79 replied:
Is anything with that girl's name attached to it, Tasteful?
Crystalina replied:
Is that for real? She did that? I thought you couldn't have anything like that on ebay.
mom2my2cuties replied: I'm not sure if she did it or not. I was doing a google search on the legalites of selling a human placenta and that is what came up
holley79 replied: When I looked it up on Ebay it looks like most of the placenta stuff is made into products. A lot of it being sheep placenta.
PrairieMom replied:
well yeah, I didn't say it was "human' We could really start something tho, I hear its a buyers market out there for human placenta right now.
PrairieMom replied: O...M...G...
http://showbiz.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,...1218958,00.html
DillsMommy replied: Placenta would be a really good thing to have on fear factor.....
grapfruit replied:
That HAS to be fake!!!!!!!!
grapfruit replied:
Honestly...that doesn't surprise me
DillsMommy replied:
the cord too???
PrairieMom replied:
waste not want not.
DillsMommy replied: oh gross!
mom2my2cuties replied:
What's funny is that when I found the link to that other Article, Tom Cruise came to mind and I was wondering if it were something he might consider!
grapfruit replied:
He's so strange!!
grapfruit replied: Ok, and what KILLS me about Tom is he's so "PPD doesn't exist" and here's a supposed natural way to combate PPD. And HE'S eating it instead of her!!!
whitting713 replied: I cannot believe this is 24 pages!
That's all!
Michelle
grapfruit replied:
I think it's just that it's THAT interesting of a topic
Everyone is learning and having fun at the same time!!
PrairieMom replied:
well, he is kind of a me me me kind of guy.
grapfruit replied:
This is true
I loved him yelling at Matt Laurer (well I love Matt L so I didn't REALLY love it) saying that HE know the history of Psychology or whatever and that Matt didn't and PPD doesn't exist.  What a heal.
grapfruit replied: Ah ha!! I got the top!
PrairieMom replied:
lucky for you, Rocky seems to be out today.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
No...he's a glib!
grapfruit replied:
Ok I had to look up what glib was
This it:
Synonyms: These adjectives mean being, marked by, or engaging in ready but often insincere or superficial discourse: a glib denial; a slick commercial; a smooth-tongued hypocrite
I think the "smooth tongued hypocrite" is great! LOL
Crystalina replied:
Hey I learned something...see!
I had no idea what glib was.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Ok I thought you all would get my joke. When Matt was interviewing Tom, Tom was calling Matt Lauer a "glib". He said it a dozen times at the poor man. That is why I said "he's a glib". Get it???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_wjp262RY
Unless they cut it out, this is the one.
Crystalina replied:
OH yeah! I remember that!
Tom is odd.
To say the least. Poor poor Katie.
Crystalina replied: Wow, I just re-watched it. Tom needs meds.
Oh if we could all be as full of wisdom as he is. I'm thinking it's not wisdom he's full of.
Matt: So what your saying is that PPD is psychological googily-goop?
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Googily goop....that's my new favortite word now!
PrairieMom replied:
Tom Cruise is a Nut a nutty nut nut nut, a crazy nut, Nutty nutty nutty...
But he is nice to look at!!!
Poor Matt.
PrairieMom replied: okay, after re-watching that clip, I have decided that Tom SHOULD eat Katie's placenta.And whom ever else's he can get his little hands on.
Here is a question, and it may have already been addressed, I'm not going all the way back to check,
who's placenta is it really, the mothers or the baby's?
Anthony275 replied: nobodys allowed to post in here when im at school ok
PrairieMom replied:
What do you do, pop in here the very second you get home? Relax, go get a snack.
sparkys2boys replied:
Placenta cookies with milk..lol???
PrairieMom replied:
PrairieMom replied: I had cabbage rolls for lunch and it took every thing I had in me to not grab my camera and take a pic for you guys. It looked just like... well, you know. I just laughed to myself, thought of y-all, and went back for seconds.
sparkys2boys replied:
OMG now that would have been super funny!!!
Crystalina replied:
PrairieMom replied:
yeah, I know. but I was a bit worried it would send some of the light weights over the edge.
PrairieMom replied:
what?! it was delicious. 
sparkys2boys replied: OMG Troy you have no self control..lol!! I see you in here lurking!! I thought you said you were passing on this one
PrairieMom replied: Hey Troy! I see you! Just had to see what all the hype was about huh?
CantWait replied:
Ummmm placenta rolls.
sparkys2boys replied:
You are prolly right!! I would have loved to seen the reaction though
PrairieMom replied:
Duh! thats why you save the membrane! I mentioned somewhere, I don't know, 10 pages or so back that there was a use for it.
PrairieMom replied: WOOHOO! I got the TOp. (this ones for you rocky!)
PLACENTA!
Crystalina replied:
Yeah, you gotta watch that.
I put the placenta eating video in my myspace blog just so I can watch it whenever I feel like it.
sparkys2boys replied: As the saga continues more
PrairieMom replied:
yeah, I caught that. you should put a disclaimer on that thing.
Crystalina replied:
Usually anyone who reads my blogs are pretty much up for anything.
sparkys2boys replied:
least they will be after this one
PrairieMom replied:
Okay. I know this now, and will be prepared for anything next time I log on.
CantWait replied:
Yum, stretchy and tough. Just the way I like it.
Crystalina replied: The more I dig the more amazed I am.
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Dear Cecil:
Here's the story. My wife just got back from Berkeley where she helped a friend give birth--and of course it all happened at home, in some kind of tub, underwater, with violins playing and midwives hovering about. Here's what she says happened next. Out came the afterbirth, which was carefully collected in a pot and put in the fridge to keep cool. Through the day, various vegetarians who dropped by to pay their respects asked about the placenta. My wife inquired, and was told that a certain stripe of high-minded vegetarian eagerly prepares and devours placenta stew, the placenta being the only form of meat that does not involve the slaughter of some innocent animal. Can this be true? And if it is, why isn't some shrewd entrepreneur bagging cow and ewe placenta and selling it at the Jewel?
I want to be told this was a tall story. --Rip Sewell, Chicago
Cecil replies:
Love to accommodate you, Ripster, but once again we find ourselves outgunned by reality. Having investigated the matter with my customary thoroughness, no small achievement under the circumstances, I can report the following facts: (1) chowing down on placenta doesn't happen often, but (2) it happens. May God have mercy on our heathen souls.
My principal source on this is a physician who has attended roughly a thousand births in the San Francisco Bay area over the years, more than two-thirds of them at home. In all this time he has encountered placenta stew exactly once, in Berkeley in the early 1970s. The father was a professional cook who concocted his own tasty recipe for placenta stew, complete with potatoes and onions, which he served to his hard-core veggie friends.
The doctor, suffering an embarrassing failure of nerve, did not sample the stew himself, but says it smelled something like liver. The veggies munched away gamely but didn't look very happy. One woman, in fact, became nauseated, which the doctor attributes to a lack of exposure to organ meats. Having seen a few miracle-of-childbirth movies in high school, however, I'd say there's a simpler explanation.
There are those who was eloquent about the joy of placenta cuisine. In Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal (Berkeley, 1978), Jeannine Parvati describes her experience: "[It] was after a very powerful birthing. The mother ate some raw first; and then let me take some into the kitchen for fixing. My experience of this slab of meat was amazing. I had never felt such life-force present in meat before.... This meat still felt very much alive to me as I began to slice it and saute it in garlic and oil.... By the time the placenta was tender, the birthday party members were very hungry, and exhausted. After the supper, eaten in a glowing silence, everyone was energized, very much re-vitalized.... Notwithstanding, the first time I ate placenta has also been my last time.... Guess I just lost [the] taste."
I'll bet. She goes on: "When you first encounter the meat, remember to pause--placenta can be sacred food, if you let the meat tell you how to prepare it for the fire.... Chew slowly, till the placenta becomes a liquid, ambrosia. Placenta is a rare privilege for most of us."
The rationale for placenta eating, apart from the fact that it doesn't entail snuffing animals, is that since it nurtures the child during pregnancy it must contain all sorts of valuable nutrients. My medical informant knows of no research supporting this view, but it's not implausible. Mama cats and dogs eat their placentas, and some say that a chemical in the stuff stimulates contractions of the uterus. Luckily for humans, breastfeeding and the drug Pitocin do the same thing. Parvati says some American Indian tribes had placenta rituals, although none of them apparently went so far as to eat the stuff. Leave it to the white man to get ridiculous about it.
The supper table is only one potential destination for the postpartum placenta. Although few new mothers realize it, many hospitals save placentas for eventual pharmaceutical use. A driver for one placenta-collection firm, Bio-Med-Hu of Louisville, Kentucky, told me his firm ships placentas to Europe for use in cosmetics. A spokesman for Bio-Med-Hu denies this, but says he's heard there are companies that do it. Hot on the trail, I called up the makers of Placentique, a skin potion that's been advertised in the newspapers lately. They claimed to use only cow placentas. I am still pursuing the matter, however. We'll get to the bottom of this yet.
Ok, this sentence freaks me out to know end!
And for anyone who wondered about making placenta pizza here you go:
Grind placenta. Saute in 2T olive oil w/4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp. fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. onion, minced, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme and 1/4 cup wine. Allow to stand 30 min., then use with your favorite homemade pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping!
lisar replied: Crystal I will never eat pizza again without thinking of this. Thanks!!!
Crystalina replied:
::ETA::
I've seen you and you don't need to diet but for me this is great!
lisar replied:
I read your blogs and I have stayed away from this one for a reason, I have already seen it and dont need to see it again.
lisar replied:
I see how much you love me now girl!!!
Crystalina replied:
NO wait!!! I edited!!!
CantWait replied: I love pizza to much to read the recipe for it, but thanks.
Anthony275 replied: im never eating cookies again
Boo&BugsMom replied:
You are correct...he has NO self-control!!!! In more ways than one.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Are you going to make a bulletin as well with it so we all can partake in it as well???
Crystalina replied:
No, that would be TMI for some.
Wow, I realizing that almost every recipe includes garlic and onions.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
As if you checked!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That is too freakin funny. As if it went for over 80 000$!!!
Crystalina replied: I have to take a break. The last hour of my life has been consumed (get it!) with placenta info.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That's why I had the Tom Cruise evil thing in my siggy before....... lol
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Definitely!!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Shush I was painting in my new house.
It's placenta paint!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Mine's still placenta. Although Googily Placenta Goop could be a close second.
lisar replied: they decided they would allow the sale to proceed as long as it was handled tastefully
OMG.... To darn funny. "Tastefully" Get it???
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
You SOOOO SHOULD have!! lol
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Busted!!!!!
Welcome!
Crystalina replied: You all need therapy.
grapfruit replied: Jennie, I hadn't seen that interview in SO long. I forgot he called Matt "glib". Poor Matt. I should hug him for him....or something like that I'm such a die hard Today show fan Dork I know
Speaking of which, we should send this information to a morning show and see if they'll do a segment on placenta consumption....
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Dang you guys! I'm never leaving my computer again!! What's with you all, taking my spot?!
lisar replied:
But you are right here with the rest of us. So that would mean that you would have to go with us right????
lisar replied:
Thanks. I know you still love me.
lisar replied: Rocky did you realize that you had 6 post just on page 27 alone??? I just had to point that out to you.
Oh wait now the count is: 11 on page 27. OMG thats gotta be a record,
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Why...did he try to eat your placenta?
lisar replied:
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
heh heh
i read that a few days ago.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
OMG I didn't even catch that.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That would be AWESOME! We could all maybe get invited and meet up.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well yeah... lol
I had to read everything I missed and respond!!!!!!
lisar replied:
In our dreams we could all meet like that to talk about "of all things" Placenta eating.
grapfruit replied:
Sounds like a good of reason as any
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
We may need to make a video of us making placenta stew or something..... lol
grapfruit replied: Ok, I'm about half way through the "glib clip" as I'll call it. And I have to pause to laugh.
Poor Matt. He has to see this in his nightmares.
Anthony275 replied: you guys are weird!!!!!
grapfruit replied:
Yeah but you love it!
lisar replied:
Who is going to eat it there though?
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NOT ME!!!!!!!
lisar replied:
I was thinking the same thing.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Umm........sewingmama? You coming?
Anthony275 replied: ive run out of good jokes
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Have a placenta pill, it will kick your brain into gear!
Anthony275 replied: ive taken too many pills in the past 3 days, sorry!
grandma replied: I just found out I'm pretty crispy, that means I'd like fried placenta?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
But you must be SOOOO HAPPYYYYY!!!!!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol
I'm sure you would.....?
PrairieMom replied:
technically, I think the crispier you are, the squishier you like your placenta
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Ah yes... you have to chew it until it's liquidy... like ambrosia.
Anthony275 replied: dude that test i took it and i got a 10
grandma replied:
My husband just called and said he's in the mood for something really different for dinner tonight, doesn't want the same ole same ole.............hum
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol
check to see if your local hospital has a walk-in special
holley79 replied: I can't believe this post is still going......
Anthony275 replied: look for some schmucks too
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
That's just gross....... lol
Anthony275 replied: you're saying thats gross? honey we're in a placenta-eating thread
Crystalina replied:
Crystalina replied:
Hello!!
Anthony275 replied: i am right
PrairieMom replied: Dinner time!
boyohboyohboy replied:
OMG, first off I keep asking myself "why do you go back there?" then before I know it, here I am reading about you people's obsession with someone insides...
then the ambrosia comment...oh how I used to like that salad. and now wont ever eat it again!
It no wonder you can't sleep!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
sparkys2boys replied:
OMG to funny!!! Umm he has a point here Rocky
boyohboyohboy replied: so to save myself from reading all the posts in this enlightening post, has anyone made this into a crock pot dinner for us busy on the go moms?
rocky?
Anthony275 replied: slow-cooked placenta mmm
Crystalina replied:
You have something there.
It's only a matter of time before Lean Cuisine comes out with grilled placenta with a side of wild rice, veggie mix and low fat cookie.
Anthony275 replied: dude i love wild rice
My3LilMonkeys replied:
How do you know it's really wild? Does it growl and try to bite you?
Boo&BugsMom replied:
No...the rest of that comment is probably more suited for the P&I part of the forum!
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Anthony275 replied: yes- i have the scars to show it
boyohboyohboy replied:
I guess it was bound to happen, i couldnt stay a proper member for long...
Danalana replied: Good lord. I go to work all day, and come back to ten more pages! I didn't even read the last 2 pages because I was tired
Anthony275 replied: now you know how i feel when i go to school
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Why you asking me? I'm not the one who provided recipes!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Hey did you know we actually eat beavertails here?
http://jenni.typepad.com/happy/2006/07/nothin_says_hap.html
CantWait replied:
Beavertails
Elephant Ears
Bear Paws
Omgosh oh so YUM!!
My3LilMonkeys replied:
Oh man does that sound good....I don't suppose they deliver to the US, do they?
Actually, we have something that sounds exactly like that here, but we call them elephant ears.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Sure, they come free with any Pasta Placenta orders!
Anthony275 replied: not even going to click it
My3LilMonkeys replied:
Surprisingly enough, that link is an actual food....and its really good! No beavers in sight.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: Aww man... the new Wendy's commercial is about cannibalism. No Joke.
redchief replied:
It's a donut... without the hole.
Danalana replied: ^^Now THAT sounds good right about now!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
It's more like soft pizza dough....but toasted
Anthony275 replied: thats gross tho because theres a boy in my class that looks like a beaver
Crystalina replied:
OMG and they are soooooo good!
Hillbilly Housewife replied: WTH is it with tv today?
I'm watching Jay Leno... and this "Rabbi" is telling a cannibal joke.
Earlier, it was the cannibal Wendy's commercial.
I swear... if I hear about cannibals on tv ONE MORE TIME, it's settled... the world has gone placenta.
mom2my2cuties replied: Don't turn on Law & Order Criminal Intent then tonight
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Are you serious????????
omg.
Must be something in the water....
get it? water? ha ha hah ha
i'm sooo tired.
Crystalina replied: I haven't seen the Wendy's commercial you speak of.
I'm off to YouTube to research this.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I just checked...didn't find it.
It's these cannibals dragging some guy off to eat him..the guy's begging not to be eaten, saying he's not tasty.... and it pans to the "leader" of the pack, who's got the red braids... and then he's all like... "he's right...I could go for the chicken whatever at wendys"
redchief replied:
Chicken? HOT, JUICY BURGER! */--\*
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
did YOU see the commercial?
redchief replied:
Of course. What American male hasn't?
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol
Tasty! Like PLACENTA!
redchief replied: That's the way to stay on topic!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol
those WERE red braids, right?
CantWait replied:
toasted??? Who are you kidding, it'd deep fried!!
CantWait replied:
Yes red braids like "Wendy" has. Red, like placenta.
CantWait replied:
I see they suckin you in more and more eh Ed??
Poor fellow.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
lol!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I know that... was trying to describe how they felt...texture... lol
Yum. Now I want a beavertail.
CantWait replied: me2.
lisar replied: This was a mistake to look at this topic first thing at work while I am trying to eat my breakfast. To many things to reply to.
But I never saw that commercial so if someone has it can you post a link to it.
grandma replied:
I saw that commercial last night and guess what I thought of? loll - yeah Placenta and this crazy thread.......
Good Morning ya'll
Boo&BugsMom replied:
We have Elephant Ears here too!
And Cow Pies!!!
Crystalina replied:
Mornin' Grandma!
Now every time a Wendy's commercial comes on I'm watching it. I hope I get to see it! Is it a new one?
TheOaf66 replied:
OMG Troy you have no self control..lol!! I see you in here lurking!! I thought you said you were passing on this one---apparently I had to come in to defend myself
You are correct...he has NO self-control!!!! In more ways than one---I think it is justified
lisar replied: I dont watch tv enough to be able to see it. Darnit!!!
grapfruit replied:
Crystalina replied:
Maybe we can get more people in here if they think we're talking about them?!!!
lisar replied:
grandma replied: Lunchtime here.....maybe I should go to Wendy's???
Danalana replied: HUNGRY.
lisar replied: Okay my co-worker just came to me and asked me if I wanted Wendy's for lunch. (she knows nothing about this thread) I jsut busted out laughing.
I decided on Quiznos instead.
holley79 replied: 
Don't we have anything else to talk about?
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Crystalina replied:
Yes but it's nice to come in here to goof off about placenta.
Team placenta has oozed on over to MySpace!
Crystalina replied: The word isn't even gross to me anymore and I'm really starting to get urge to taste it. Maybe this thread will conform us to the placenta eating way?
Danalana replied: OOOOOOOHH...I have a good joke!
Knock Knock!
holley79 replied:
Well I'm sure there are other things for us to goof off about around here.
Crystalina replied:
Who's there???
Danalana replied: Placenta!
Crystalina replied:
lisar replied:
ok you try it and let the rest of us know how it taste. DEAL?
grandma replied: So out of boredom, I was thinking back to the placenta tape. Didn't those people look like they were from the 1800's or were they in a time-warp? Or does placenta just make you look old?
grapfruit replied:
See I wasn't brave enough to watch. Now guess what I have to do Watch it of course!
Crystalina replied:
LOL Good question. It seemed very cult-ish to me. I'm not saying they were any sort of cult at all that's just the first thing that popped into my head.
Crystalina replied:
I'm not quite there yet. Besides, I don't have a placenta handy.
grapfruit replied: I think Dana is the next one on here that will have it handy the soonest right? Looks like Dana should try it
Crystalina replied:
Do you know if she's even keeping hers to bury?
grapfruit replied:
I can't remember what she said about it....
BTW; WHERE is that clip everyone has seen but me? I looked and looked and didn't see it...but I could of missed it (b/c I'm a blond in disguise)
grandma replied:
Yeah, cultish is another good way to describe it........
grapfruit replied: Dana I see you!
Danalana replied: Crystal, I'll share some of my placenta with you!
Crystalina replied:
I don't know what page it's on but if you go to my MySpace Blog it's under 'Chow!'.
The link
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...logID=346074553
PrairieMom replied:
you know you are gonna have to do it.
Will you at least ask your Dr for it afterward, then pass on the reaction to us?
Crystalina replied:
Yummers! But only a little piece. I don't want to be greedy.
Calimama replied: I can't believe you guys are STILL talking about this.
PrairieMom replied:
you got the top.
PLACENTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danalana replied:
Yes! I'll just pull out a plate and fork and ask him if somebody can prepare it with garlic and onions for me!
Crystalina replied:
That would be funny!
gr33n3y3z replied:
That would be lol
Calimama replied:
Do I get a prize.. If not you can gladly have it back..
Crystalina replied: Wait a minute! I just watched the video again and when the woman is "baptizing" the placenta in the frying pan (with alcohol and flame) she makes a statement:
Not to start yet another topic in here but isn't that witchcraft?
grandma replied:
Yes, it does sound like a ritual, now we're onto something......
lisar replied:
Will you do this Dana?
Crystalina replied:
I watched it again and I'm thinking they are into witchcraft and opens up the topic of do all people in witchcraft practice this? 
lisar replied:
Can you search it and find out? I dont do witch craft so I dont know.
Crystalina replied:
Oh I'm on it!
lisar replied:
I figured you were.
And whats up with the being on top of the post thing? Are yall having a competition?
PrairieMom replied: Rocky has reserved the top of the page spot for herself, I just feel like I should be there in her absence.
grandma replied:
I want a turn at the top....I'm the oldest....
Crystalina replied: Did you know that for those who wanted to consume the placenta and not actually cook it and eat it you can get it made into capsule form and take it like a pill?
Huh? did you know ? Informative! see, if this thread would not have gotten this far I never would have thunk it.
Check out the username of the person posting. I'm thinking it's a common practice in the Wiccan Religion.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=763205
Boys r us replied: Ya'll are killing me!!! I stopped reading on page 8...did a quick over view of page 32..did I miss anything in between?!?
grandma replied:
yeah, someone was talking about placenta pills yesterday - YOU must have been off researching somewhere else at that time
grandma replied:
Of course you missed A LOT....you need to read every page You can't take this placenta madness too lightly....
Crystalina replied: Ok, from some board I came across
So I'm thinking yeah but I can't find anything concrete. Not that it matters but I'm really curious.
Crystalina replied: Ok, after doing some digging I've found that even some Wiccans think this is odd so we can exclude it from being a Wiccan thing although they also do this but it seems just as many Wiccans do it as other religions. Apparently this is more the norm:
I'm back to square one.
http://www.earthspirit.org/fireheart/fhcob.html
lisar replied: OMG Crystal the things you are finding are just NASTY!!!! Keep it up though its very interesting.
Crystalina replied:
While everyone else thinks 'Please don't encourage her!'
Anthony275 replied: placenta meat pie please
grandma replied:
I think your/our new found interest in placenta is very healthy. Now if I would have only known this oh say....30-38 years ago....
sparkys2boys replied: I will never ever eat meat pie again now..lol!! I was gone all day and man I had alot to catch up on here!! Im waiting for the next installment of Crystal's recieps for placenta use..lol.
Anthony275 replied: sorry.
want some blood pudding instead?
sparkys2boys replied:
Ummmmm let me think.........
NOPE I'm good ty
lisar replied:
As much as I am gaining her on, I think I could do without the recipes. Thank you.
I will never eat Pizza again already.
sparkys2boys replied:
Hey arent you having pizza for supper tonight..lol??
Anthony275 replied: ran out of sausage, using placenta instead
My2Beauties replied: I am laughing so hard at this entire thread, it took me almost an hour between going back and forth at work to read this thing
grapfruit replied:
Can you imagine if it gets any longer!!!
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
me too
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
You HAVE to get that on video.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yeah well i'm back for now so ya'll can get the heck off my throne.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
TONS!!!!!!!!!!!!............of placenta
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
I'm encouraging you. Someone's gotta keep getting the education level up in here.. lol
redchief replied:
Somehow I don't feel even a little bit more intelligent from even one of the 33 pages in this very silly thread.
Anthony275 replied: who wants a slice of placenta?
CantWait replied:
Not even a bit.
That's too bad, I guess we'll have to keep it going because it's PC and we really should learn a little something from every post we read.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well I just learned that you're very considerate in the education of others.
CantWait replied:
I'm very considerate in EVERYTHING I do.
And modest as well
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
You learn something new every day!!
Anthony275 replied: yep!! just like how i have so much pain from touching the outside of my throat!!!!!!
sparkys2boys replied:
OK you apparently havent read all the pages then..lol I have learnt alot here, yes maybe more then I care to talk about But c'mon you had to of learnt something. Did you honestly know that placenta was edible before this post
Crystalina replied:
Yeah! or...or....or that you could have it dried and put into capsules? <--that's how Evan would say it.
Or...that some in the Wiccan religion tie an umbilical cord on a willow tree especially planted for their newborn? I found that part very interesting and I would not have found that if not for searching.
sparkys2boys replied:
Yeah.. what she said
sparkys2boys replied: Ok I have lost my mind and am bored to death. I just read this whole thread from start to finish..lol And ya know.. I am not sure if I have learnt a darn thing or not now but its still funny as it was the first time. Yup, can y'all guess who cant sleep tonight
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
it's still pretty funny. Even dh joined in tonight, suprised the heck out of me... we were in the car and we were talking about where we were going to go for dinner... since we just had naomie with us... and i suggested chinese buffet... he said as long as there was no placenta.
Anthony275 replied: were the other two at grandma's for another wild night heh
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Yup...
Anthony275 replied: yea not gonna lie thats kinda gross
i love this signature trend
Anthony275 replied: oh wow this thread has no posts today im getting worried
Danalana replied:
I might! I think that would be awesome...
Danalana replied: Today, we went to our childbirth class. While we were waiting, I told DH that some people eat the placenta. He didn't seem to think anything of it UNTIL I explained that the placenta is the afterbirth. His eyes got really big, and he apparently thought this was something I was considering...he said "we're not doing that!"
Darn it, he just doesn't want me to have any fun...
Anthony275 replied: use that book from seinfeld's wife and hide it in his foods
Danalana replied: Yes. If I hide it in meat, and make sure there is bread, he will surely eat it all. LOL, hiding meat in meat...
Anthony275 replied: coat it with breadcrumbs and say its eggplant
heh...eggs
Danalana replied: I had eggplant parmigiana at olive garden today.....MMMMMMMMMM!
Crystalina replied:
I love fried eggplant! Wonder if placenta is about the same.
Danalana replied: Have you noticed that almost all of the placenta recipes call for garlic and onions? I think it's because you need something to mask the flavor of the placenta.
Anthony275 replied: maybe it's so vampires can't steal it?
grandma replied:
And I'll bet that vampires would love some fresh placenta! 
Anthony275 replied: oh yum i want some placenta cookies please and some meatballs
Danalana replied: You know what I love in placenta cookies? Garlic and onions.
Anthony275 replied: placenta bacon?
Crystalina replied:
Now if it has the word bacon in it I'm on it! Placenta or not.
Nina J replied: All this placenta talk makes me remember being at my grandparents farm when I was a kid. I used to stay there a lot, especially when it was time for the cows to have there calfs.
I enjoyed playing with the cows placenta. God it's so gross to think about...I mainly poked it with a stick before the dogs ate it, but I think there might have been some hand contact occassionaly. I was only a kid though, it's not like I did that past the age of 10.
My3LilMonkeys replied:
Non-placenta related, but when I was a kid I used to love helping butcher chickens cause I liked to look at the insides and ask what everything was. My sisters still tease me about it.
Danalana replied: There's no way I could have done that. I have always had such a tender heart toward animals. I couldn't even watch Wild Kingdom with my mother. Something would kill something else, and I would start bawling...she would end up just changing the channel. Ha, I still can't watch it. Like, I love big cats--lions, tigers, leopards, etc--but I can't watch them on National Geographic for long. Inevitably, they will show them kill something. I can handle it if it's quick....say, a Lion kills a little animal. But I can't handle it when a pack of lions jumps on a huge animal (for example, a buffalo), and I know it will suffer for SO long. I'm a big wus! I know they have to eat, and it's not like they can go to the supermarket, but I just hate the idea of anything suffering. LOL, our son is going to be a sight if he inherits this from me. Oh! He doesn't have much of a chance...DH is a bit of a softie too, when it comes to that.
Wow, I had a lot to say!
And now, I just want to say...
PLACENTA.
grandma replied: Good Morning!
First, let me say Placenta. We went to the Smoke House Sunday morning and when I saw the liverwurst, you know what I was thinking....lol
Dana, I LOVE the name Kade - it is such a cool name!
Once again, PLACENTA to you all.....
Danalana replied: Thank you!
mom2my2cuties replied: Ok so I'm putting off leaving for the hospital just yet....Let me ask Rocky, want me to ask and see if I can get Dr Lewis to give me mine???? In this small Arkansas town, he might just call in a priest
Anthony275 replied: rocky has no internet until like thursday
Nina J replied:
I was the same, except with sheep I couldnt do it now though, I would probably vomit.
Crystalina replied:
We must keep this thread alive until then!!!
Rocky! Placenta! Rocky! Placenta!
Danalana replied: Denise expressed interest in this thread, so I'm bumping it for her own enjoyment.
No need to thank me!
grandma replied:
lol - I was just coming to do the same....what do they say "great minds think alike"
Danalana replied: Yes, I've always had a great mind
And my placenta is pretty great too
Crystalina replied:
knowing that you have a placenta and seeing your ava at the same time concerns me Dana. LOL
Danalana replied: Don't be concerned! It says "DO NOT" fall down stairs. See? Safety first.
Crystalina replied:
Oh yes, I should have read it. LOL I only saw the bouncing baby.
Danalana replied: Ooooooh. See, I never thought of it as a baby!
Danalana replied: Okay, i see your point. I'm now changing it to a friendlier avatar!
Crystalina replied:
OH you didn't have to do that. I liked it. LOL
Placenta!
Anthony275 replied: whats going on
Crystalina replied:
Please start at page one and catch up!
Anthony275 replied: uh oh rae's reading this
Crystalina replied:
Who dat?
Anthony275 replied: how do you not know who that is?
PrairieMom replied:
you know Rae, as in Rae? Mysweetpeaswilandwes.
Crystalina replied:
Oh. I'm so terribly bad with real names and then when people go and change their username I'm all out of whack.
Crystalina replied:
Ok, that was going to help me! I'm glad you added the username.
PrairieMom replied:
I barely know anyone's names, esp the ones that are long. I mainly go by avatars and siggys. When people change those I am really lost.
Anthony275 replied: were you lost when i changed my username
PrairieMom replied:
I wasn't, but you kept a greatful dead theme, so that helped. ALthough, when you changed your name you went from a 30 year old mom to high school kid overnight.
Anthony275 replied: wait how did that happen
i was never 30 years old to begin with
PrairieMom replied:
you were, in my head.
luvbug00 replied: So i was thinking. If i had to drink a plasenta smoothie on fear factor for lot of money ..I'd do it. as long as it was my own. ...I just lost all crediblity, didn't i??
Anthony275 replied: i have no idea what that means but sure why not
Anthony275 replied:
why did i have to be 30, why couldnt you think i was like 28 or 26 or a nice young age like that
PrairieMom replied:
I
am
30
I just picture everyone on here to be the same age, about my age. I guess thats good for some, and bad for others.
My3LilMonkeys replied:
Maybe we should all post our gender and age in our signature for you.
Crystalina replied:
Nadia I'm right with you. I would not do a bug or an eyeball but I would do a balut egg and a placenta. My own placenta.
And if the price were right I'd eat my young.
not really! Geesh.
Anthony275 replied: i cant believe people thought i was jim morrison, im not in my mid 60s
nor am i dead
Crystalina replied:
I'm a 60 yr old man.
grandma replied: Anthony - how old or young are you?
Anthony275 replied: im 17
grandma replied:
And what brought you to a parenting message board? Forgive me, I'm new and don't know much yet....
Anthony275 replied: everything on tv except maury sucks now so all i watch is tlc because its interesting and i actually learn things from it, seemed like about 1 year ago the only thing they played on that channel were baby shows and stuff like that
grandma replied: Oh okay......you came out of boredom...lol
Crystalina replied:
LOL we are entertaining no?
Anthony275 replied: crystals not entertaining
grandma replied:
Yes, you sure are......
Crystalina replied:
AWAY WITH YOU! (said in a wicked witch type voice)
Anthony275 replied: but if i went away you'd miss me so much
Brias3 replied: I can't believe this is the 800-something post to this topic
Anthony275 replied: i can't believe it's 45 pages long
PrairieMom replied:
I have a feeling I am being picked on.
We have done those posts about how old you are and where you are from and all that, but really it just goes in one ear and out the other with me. In my head we are all about the same. Except Crystal, I knew you were a 60 yr old man from the beginning. It is so obvious.
Anthony275 replied: i didnt know 60 year olds could still have babies
or are they your grandchildren? can you confirm this?
grandma replied:
Being a grandma and old don't go hand in hand you know!
Anthony275 replied: i know, my grandma was i think 46 when she became a grandmother, she'll be 81 in a few days
Crystalina replied:
I feel like a 60 yr old man sometimes!
Crystalina replied: ....with a placenta.
Anthony275 replied: you pushed it too far
Danalana replied: All I know is...
PLACENTA.
Anthony275 replied: wow no activity at all today
Hillbilly Housewife replied: You guys are too funny!
Nice to see this is still on page one of GD... lol
So...did ya'll miss my placenta? lol
Anthony275 replied: !!!
i did!
Danalana replied: *raises hand*
I did!
Nobody else's placenta is the same as yours
Hillbilly Housewife replied: mine's extra tasty.
Danalana replied: I'm sure!
I think mine will be too
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Don't forget to save me a piece!
Danalana replied: I'll give it to you when you bring me my moccasins!
Anthony275 replied: im guessing thats never
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
What do YOU know?
Anthony275 replied: theres no airports in canada, silly
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
there's like 3 or 4, in my CITY.
Well, one international, the others private. Ha!
Anthony275 replied: you ruined the joke....
grandma replied:
Glad your back, Placenta Queen...lol
With that I'm off to watch some worthless tv.
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Oh I shold so put that in my siggy. lol
Anthony275 replied:
you mean american idol??
mom2my2cuties replied:
Placenta Queen????
That's just funny...
PS - Dr Lewis said I could not have my placent especailly if I wanted to eat it
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Aww Tish that SUCKS!!!!!! What are you going to do now?!
mom2my2cuties replied: I told him when he actually lets me deliver it, I'm going to let you tell him all about the benifits and the yummy things we can make with it
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Well I'm not posting in here anymore, it's been made clear that Kirsten is offended by us talking about this when there's so much more going on in the world... and others think it's high time to let this die. So I'm done with this, I got the hint. *ahem*.
Danalana replied: I SO do not agree!
I haven't seen a topic so informative and fun as this one...well, ever. And I don't just say that as the person who started it all
*bows*
CantWait replied:
hahaha did you actually ask your Dr. Tish, that's too funny
Crystalina replied:
Well. Ugh! 
grandma replied:
Oh that's just fine! Get your title (Placenta Queen) and quit......whatever 
Boo&BugsMom replied:
If some people can't have a sense of humor then that isn't your fault. Everyone deserves a good laugh and a time out. If someone doesn't want to talk about PLACENTA then hey...here's an idea...DON'T READ THE THREAD!!!
Crystalina replied:
How true.
Has anyone checked out the Placenta Blog?
Crystalina replied: How would you explain this to the cop that pulls you over?
Boo&BugsMom replied: So, what do hospitals do with the placenta if the mother doesn't take it with her? How do they dispose of it? It is used for something medical?
Crystalina replied:
I think they just toss it don't they?
I would have kept mine and planted it but I procrastinate way too much so it would have been really gross by the time I got to it. It's better they just take it away.
Crystalina replied: I did not know this! Gross but really cool I think. I love all forms of art so this would be something to consider.
Placenta art
Generally mothers talk about placenta prints. After the birth you take a piece of paper and lay the placenta on it. If it is fresh you can let the blood and amniotic fluid leave the print or others choose to use paints to add color. Now what? Well, hang your framed art or store it for safekeeping.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
I read that. Oh my!
Oh...some interesting information...
from this website...http://forums.obgyn.net/ob-gyn-l/OBGYNL.9610/0102.html
The placenta serves as an excellent teaching aid within a "Pelvic trainer" while teaching "laparoscopic surgeons" to gynaecologists. It is an alternative to "animal surgery" esp. in countries where animal right organisations have rightly banned animal experimentation.
I have heard of some institutions using placentas for IV training--the smaller ones are especially good for neonatal practice from what I understand, but I don't have any experience with this. Some people to take them home and bury them--some planting a bush or tree on top of it, and making it sort of a "monument" to the baby. I know some cultures eat them, but let's not go there, OK?? Looking foward to the other replies you get.
I know that placentas have been used "medically" in the following manner: * Dried, ground, put in capsules used for hormone component to stim labor. * Eaten freshly prepared (cooked or whatever) by mom for quicker healing. * As a component of beauty products. Please be ever conscious of possible viral transmission.
We used to sell 'our' placentas to the pharmaceutical industry for many years, for pocket change (that went to cakes for the coffee breaks and such), but there's obviously no demand any more. I think they made gamma-globulin from them.
Anthony275 replied: oooh artwork
My3LilMonkeys replied:
I haven't researched this personally, but I've been told it's used for medical research...similar to the way umbilical cords are.
Insanemomof3 replied:
Are you sure you don't mean Extra CRISPY? LOL
Crystalina replied: This is a little off topic.. but I found this interesting:
Did you all know that there was a name for this?
WHARTON'S JELLY:
Wharton's jelly is a gelatinous substance within the umbilical cord, composed of cells that originate in the original egg and sperm of conception. It is largely made up of mucopolysaccharides (hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate). As a mucous tissue it protects and insulates umbilical blood vessels.
Wharton's jelly, when exposed to temperature changes, collapses structures within the umbilical cord and thus will provide a physiological clamping of the cord, an average of 5 minutes after birth. In some cases, such as in water birth with the cord immersed, the Wharton's jelly reaction will occur much later.
It is named for the English physician and anatomist Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) who first described it in his publication Adenographia, or "The Description of the Glands of the Entire Body", first published in 1656.
Anthony275 replied: that sounds scrumptious
PrairieMom replied:
see... thats educatiuonal
grandma replied: Today is my youngest son's 30th birthday. I don't remember people doing anything with Placenta back then, but ofcourse I could be wrong.
mom2my2cuties replied:
Yes Marie - It's amazing how loose my lips get when I have had pain medicine. I am a feather weight when it comes to medicine, tylenol makes me loopy, so you can imagine how Demerol affects me I think Dr Lewis is concerned about mental stability now though.
Bamamom replied: You know I thought this thread was pretty gross/silly/overdone - so I avoided it. Only opened it once before this - and no I haven't read all the replies to catch up! But I just wanted to come on here and give all of you who have participated in it and enjoyed it a vote of confidence. Anyone who doesn't know how to just NOT OPEN a thread that they don't like/enjoy/want to be a part of can just be offended in my opinion.
So PARTY ON DUDE! 
Anthony275 replied: you get 10000000 cool points for quoting bill & ted
Crystalina replied:
Anthony275 replied: awww its so cute
grandma replied:
Cool sign!!
PrairieMom replied: I tried talking to my co-workers about the benefits of placenta this weekend. They all think it is gross too. I had one convinced that I ate Mine when AL was born. I finally broke down at the end of the shift and told her I was kidding. She believed me tho.
Anthony275 replied: was she asking you many questions about taste?
PrairieMom replied:
No, she was just like "thats sooo gross! you didn't actually do that did you?!? And I told her this long story about how I had PPD and trouble with milk k production. i basically threw all the knowledge I learned here at her. She totally bought it, I wonder how many people she told before I came clean? When I go back to work in 2 weeks the entire hospital will probably think I really did it.
grandma replied:
We need more people with your sense of humor - that is hilarious...I LOVE it!
Anthony275 replied: that, and the episode of maury i just watched made my day
Crystalina replied:
OMG, that's too funny!
Insanemomof3 replied: Omg look what I found. LOL
Afterbirth
Drink Type: Cocktail - A
Ingredients
4/5 oz. Smirnoff Vodka - (more)
2/5 oz. Peach Schnapps - (more)
Black Currant Juice - (more)
Orange Juice - (more)
Sloe Gin - (more)
Instructions
Pour into a glass over large amounts of ice and fill fresh orange juice. Add a dash of blackcurrant juice and Sloe gin to taste. Drink through a straw.
BRING YOUR OWN PLACENTA!!!!!!!!!! hehe
Anthony275 replied: oh thank you!
Danalana replied: See, I don't think I could drink that. I hate the taste of alcohol!
Crystalina replied:
Really that's the only reason we are TTC right now. All this placenta talk! It's not the baby I want it's the delectable placenta that I get to ingest and share with the ones I love.
Anthony275 replied: maybe you should just raise the placenta instead of the baby?
Crystalina replied:
Hey! There ya go!
That would probably be much cheaper.
Danalana replied: Are yall really trying to conceive?
Raising the placenta would be a alot easier too!
Crystalina replied:
Yes. DH has wanted it for the last year or so and now the kids are in on it so I gave in. I'm getting old so we better do this now if we're going to.
3xmommy replied: You know, I read about placenta eating a few years ago... back then my first thought was "Omg, gag me..."... still my first thought. That is just soo narsty... why on earth would somebody eat that? Better yet, HOW? Holy hell... I better not think about it too much... I guess whatever floats yer boat...
Oh, and don't close this post... it's been funny to read... some people just need to lighten up and realize that just because we're parents, doesn't mean we're dead as people.
-Dee
Danalana replied: Does anybody here want first dibs on half of my placenta? I would give it all, but I am going to dry the other half and make pills. Hey, on second thought, maybe I will use ALL of it and see what I can get for the pills on the street! I just need to think of a good name for them...
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Placentor
Placentix...
Danalana replied: Oooooh, those are good!
I was thinking of placentab or placentocin
grandma replied: Placentadrin....Placentrex (did someone say that?)
Crystalina replied:
lol Dana you could be the Go-To Girl for Placentocin. I could just see you meeting people in dark alleys or selling them on the corner to mom's pushing their babies in strollers.
Picture it:
I beautiful spring day. A group of moms standing together talking about the cute things their babies are doing.
A minivan pulls quietly into the background.
The window rolls down slowly.
All the mom's start to shift a bit from the temptation.
They all get anxious looks on their faces while some of them still cradle their young.
One mom is holding tight to the handle of her stroller, wringing it like she would a damp sponge. She looks at one of her mother friends and then glances at another who has the same anxious and knowing look on her face.
She finally breaks and says between gritted teeth, "I'm going for it!", as she grabs her stroller and runs across the street to the waiting minivan. The entire time she's running (by the way, in her sketchers and ever fashionable "mom" jeans") she only has the quick fix on her mind.
((Camera is back on the driver of the minivan))
The woman gets a knowing look on her face as she slowly nods her head in satisfaction and reaches into her purse.
Danalana replied: OMG.
Crystal, you're crazy!
Anthony275 replied: on tlc right now they're discussing placenta
grandma replied:
What are they saying? Some kind of news flash or did they just hear about this thread?
Anthony275 replied: they were talking about how much it weighs
grandma replied: Man, YOU are gonna be an expert. I mean how many guys your age even know it exists?
Anthony275 replied: anybody that took biology
PrairieMom replied:
or anyone that stayed awake through biology.
grandma replied:
Yeah, but now you have had many in depth conversations about it...
Anthony275 replied: im just smart now
PrairieMom replied: PLA...centa.
PrairieMom replied: OOOH! I got the top again.
Anthony275 replied: 49 pages
Danalana replied: No idea how you're getting 49 pages
Anthony275 replied: i have a different post count per page, because im cool
lisar replied: Yall are almost at 1000 replies.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
You should be able to adjust yours under the controls and opt to see less posts per page, etc.
Anthony275 replied: yay 50 pages
Anthony275 replied: about a month until dana gets her little bundle of joy, and a free placenta
holley79 replied: Gosh and I thought this thread was gone. Thanks Anthony, it's time to let sleeping dogs lie.
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