I did not save my placenta... I never thought that you should do anything with it except get rid of it. You have this new baby to take care of and keep alive, why would you want to also take on the responsibility of preparing a placenta feast or burial service? Saving cord blood is highly controversial, and there are countless lifesaving benefits for keeping, so I don't see how it's OK to save placenta. Let's also talk about the fact that saving your placenta to bury or eat or whatever runs into issues of sanitation and bio-hazard handling. There are very strict guidelines of how to properly dispose of any human waste, fluids and matter, and those guidelines are put into place to protect us from infection and disease. I'm sure it's nutrient dense, but to me eating your placenta is dancing on the edge of cannibalism. With that being said, if saving and eating placenta is something you have done or plan on doing, rock on. I can respect your reasons and beliefs behind that decision. I feel certain that if I knew more about it and understood the benefits and beliefs behind it better, that I would be less grossed out by it.

I look like I'm giving birth to someone's placenta in that still!

I had c-sections and donated my cord blood, and no, I didn't take my placenta home to cook. It actually turns my stomach to think of doing this, but I have a weak stomach when it comes to unconventional foods, so I can wholly admit that that's my problem and nobody else's. I did ask to see my placenta after the cord blood was drained out of simple curiosity, and, oh my, I have to close my eyes and breathe deeply even writing to you now--no, I wouldn't eat that.

Here is my placenta story, although it does not involve my own placenta. My dad is is a high-risk obstetrician. One night, he picked me up from high school swim practice. The hospital paged him while we were in the car on the way home. He had to go do a c-section. He asked if I wanted to watch. Of course! So, with the mom's permission, I scrubbed in and watched the c-section. It was the most amazing, almost out-of-body, experience. People had always stopped us at church, in the grocery store, etc. to say what a great doctor my dad was. This was the first time I had ever seen him in action. I felt so proud of him. On top of that, I could not believe how emotional it was to see this beautiful little baby being born. Then . . . then came the placenta. No one warned me about this. Growing up, we used words like placenta, uterus, ovaries, cervix, like they were nothing. But, I had never seen a placenta. It was HORRIFYING. What was that thing? That blob of congealed oatmeal; that is a placenta. No thank you. I do not want to see that ever again! When I had my daughter seven months ago, I did not even look down for that part. I had seen one too many already. More power to you if you want to eat it, plant it, make it into a necklace. It's just not for me.

As an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist I saved my placenta and had it encapsulated. I then took it as part of an herbal formula to rebuild my energy after the birth. Placenta is an extremely strong herb that is known to help prevent post-partum depression and to help low milk supplies to just name two benefits. Was I ever thinking of just eating the placenta? No. I just couldn't talk myself into it, even though in much of the world it is the norm. I even have traditional Chinese recipes from when I was in school! Couldn't do it ;)

First, Rebecca? "Giant man-of-war" is officially my favorite placenta description ever. (Probably "something Jabba the Hut coughed up" would be a close second.) I wasn't/am not horrified by the placenta. Big deal. Bodies do all sorts of unsavory things. However, it never in a million years occurred to me to do anything special with it. My delivery was an emergency C-section, but even had I had time to stop and worry about it, I just wouldn't have cared. I cared about the new life. I'm not really one for souvenirs (the doctors also expressed surprise that I didn't want to save my C-section incision staples -- Why? What for?), nor do I care about all the foofy trendy things people like to do. I had a normal, highly skilled doctor in a normal, reputable hospital and whenever they asked did I want this or that medication or to do this or that fancy activity, my only question was how does it affect the baby and, if that's not an issue, me? Other than that, I. Don't. Care. No doulas. No home birth. No eschewing (or loading up on) drugs. No underwater birth with dolphins while Yanni played nearby. No souvenirs. There's nothing wrong with any of those things. I just don't care at all about them. I find meaning in my son's life already. I don't need to make it up.

Mine is in the freezer right now. I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I am not going to eat it on a pizza or anything. I am not going to eat it at all! I understand the cave woman thing but I do not live in a cave. I do have a friend who had hers encapsulated because there are lots of perfectly matched hormones in it. I know she is going to save it in the freezer for when she goes through menopause. Interesting!

Currently I am feeling as if Iam cant say no. I have twinns who are 13 and after school they come home with all of their friends and raid our refrigerator. Iam a single parent on a budget, I hate telling hungry kids not to eat our food. I cant keep on supporting this eating frenzy in our home with a set monthly budget. Has anyone been put in this situation? Is there a way correct this pattern without being rude?

I've never given birth nor have I ever witnessed a human birth so I've never met a human placenta. But, growing up I witnessed my cats giving birth and they ate the placenta. So, Maggie's onto something there, I think. They also eat their kittens' fecal matter so maybe it's not entirely applicable to humans. I don't know. I don't think I want to think about that much. I do have friends who planted a placenta in there garden. This is a fact I discovered while having dinner with them. As in, "It's right next to where we buried 'Judy's' placenta." Mmm ...

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