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Eating Placenta??

Have any of you moms done it? How does it taste??? What are your views?
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10289679 tn?1419123337
It is not cultural in China to eat an aborted baby, it is a new trend among the filthy rich over there. My exchanged student and all his exchanged friends and thier families (who are from all different parts of china) were disgusted and appalled by this and assured me it was not socially acceptable or common practice. Its just sick rich people who have grown bored of eating the horn of rhinos and wants to try the next things that tortures and degrades an innocent being and call it a status symbol. Its disgusting to compare eating a dead child to eating a placenta, there is absolutely no comparison. A placenta is not a person. People cure cancer with urine therapy (drinking thier urine). Again, not for me but good for them, it's not canibalism. The baby is fed from the placenta, the baby is not a cannibal. I have never experienced post partum. Women struggle with this so badly that they hurt or kill themselves or thier families. I can't imagine feeling this way but I have so much respect for the woman and the mother who will take a stab at something as taboo and unappetizing as eating the placenta just for the chance that it may prevent them from being anything less than a Mother. It is a possible alternative to getting on a medication, which would prevent breastfeeding as eating the placenta is said to benifit both, not just one while preventing the other. The woman who does this is a selfless stand up Mother in my book.
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973741 tn?1342342773
I've heard of this.  Seems to be a growing trend.  I agree that I would want it in the capsule.  The placenta is very rich in vitamins.  Guess what?  It's in the most expensive shampoos.  Kind of gross to think about but I think if someone wants to do it, they should.  I didn't but there is more and more information on it these days and probably lots more to come.  good luck
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I'll pass on eating mine. I think its bad enough that i have to push it out as well as my baby. Each to their own. Let me know how it tastes if you do decide to  try it☺
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I would like to point out that animals often eat the placenta as a defense or precaution to keep predators away and reduce the risk of a predator attacking them or their young. I personally wouldn't eat it, but to each their own.
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I'm considering maybe eating my placenta. Still in the process of doing research.
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In China they don't think it's wrong....it's their culture. So it really is no different. You are eating an organ developed by the embryo of a fetus. It would then be considered cannibalism. Its joy being mean....it's just facts. You can compare the horrors of other countries but you also must remember to them it's culture. So what your saying is there is a double standard. One is ok to judge yet not the other. Research proves no benefit. One cannot saying helped with post pArtum or milk production because you have no foundation of knowing what would have happened had you not ate it. There is no control portion. And unfortunAtely a person can convince themselves that it is not cannibalism....the same way China has convinced themselves eating dead fetus is not wrong....however, the FACT remains that a placenta is produced from an embryo which means it is a life organ to someone other than the mother. It is considered an organ by all medical standards and therefore constitutes cannibalism. Just because we convince ourselves it's notndoesnt make the facts any less prevalent.
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10289679 tn?1419123337
Ya I agree with organic mama... don't have to be so mean! From my own research and thoughts I wouldn't but I wouldn't call someone a cannibal for it! Anyone that can look at that thing and decide to eat it to benifit themselves and thier baby is a hero to me whether or not I agree with the benifits. In china, people eat aborted babies, and in China, I don't beleive there is a cap on when one can abort considering thier own government gives forced abortions at any time. That is absolutely disgusting and cannibalism, I don't think you can compare a woman with the best intentions with a cannibal.
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I'm not trying to be judgmental but the thought grosses me out !
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8793709 tn?1409594060
ewwww - gross!
I never heard of eating placenta ... that sounds like cannibalism !!
I wish I hadnt read this just before having my lunch *smh*
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11133727 tn?1417112793
lol!!!
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How are these moms who eat it able to tell if it helps with their milk production or with postpartum? Are they some how able to tell how they would have produced milk and what their mood would be like if they didn't ingest their placenta? Even if they are comparing it to past pregnancies where they didn't ingest it, it still wouldn't make much of a difference because women respond so differently to each pregnancy, postpartum included.
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10404685 tn?1418830427
You may as well take a dump and eat it. I hear dogs get lots of nutrients from doing that. Sorry but thats disgusting:/-
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My friend had hers encapsulated and it helped with her milk production and post pardum depression. Her last 2 pregnancies she struggled with it. This time around she never had it. Everyone is different and views things as they see fit.  I do know that it does cost around $250 and you get roughly 200-300 pills. Just an fyi.
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Most animals do it....my dog eat his own poop too and lions eat baby cubs and so on and so forth. I wouldnhopw that humans are more evolved then animals. I'll pass. Lol
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Most if not all animals eat their placenta after birth, and other countries have eaten placenta for eons, so its not that uncommon or unnatural. It is supposed to be nutrient rich. That said, I am not quite sure I could stomach eating it, and I think we get enough nutrition to not need it as much as we once may have. I'm open minded though. It is interesting.
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First time i ever hear this !! This is i think too much!
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Ewww, the topic grosses me out. Yuck!
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The placenta is not a part of the mother it is actually formed from the egg, it contains genetic material from the baby. So it is (in my mind and many others) cannibalism, I wouldn't eat it if someone paid me a million dollars, encapsulated or not. If people are willing to eat placenta what will happen next? Amputees eating their own limbs? Breast cancer patients eating their own breasts? I just don't see how a person can want to do it when the most research done on the matter is based on rats and their reactions. There is almost no human based research out there, to me that should be enough reason not to even entertain the thought.
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Why bury it?
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I just want to bury my placenta if I could.
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10289679 tn?1419123337
Well... I was genuinely interested too. But i couldn't find a proven benifit. Which I was surprised by! Then I looked up a picture of one and wanted to vomit... surely that came from an alien. In my search I also found a pic of a box of placenta helper that read "just add placenta" and I pead myself laughing so hard.. look it up!
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In some countries it's a delicacy, the husband and relatives would eat it, not the mother...it brings good fortune and health to the mother and child...but like I said, that's in other countries not the USA. But i wouldn't really call it an organ or anything, it's only there when your pregnant,  and afterwords it's gone and you don't need it anymore.  
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I could never do that it will be eating your own body part some people can be sick
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I am not sure of my thoughts on that. It sounds cool till you get all technical about it, then it just sounds a little gross.
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