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i couldnt eat it but i read on another site about una__sisted chilldbirths and that people eat a small piece if they are hemoraging and it is meant to stop the bleeding! If i found myself stranded after giving birth with no help in site and i was bleeding heavy i may consider it as a last resort but since i live in a city with medical help close by i hopefully will never have to try it.

Ummm....no?

No

no, didn't even enter my mind

Would you eat your own poop? I mean, that's natural from your body...Heavens no!! It's provided nutrients to your baby, but why in the world would a mother eat it? It may be OK in other cultures, but not here! Now that the baby's out of the womb, they get nutrients from other sources...namely real food, just like us. If it was common in the US, you'd have heard of it. To me, the answer to that is just plain common sense.

I had a really nice but pretty weird teacher my freshman year of high school - until her, I didn't even know what a placenta was! Well, she was very amish like....sort of, she didn't eat meat, she didn't use Q-tips (heard you could rupture your ear drums), didn't use tupperware (heard you could get cancer), said no blood was blue (I don't know about you guys but I have always been taught blood was blue until it hit oxygen), she didn't have s_x, she got married and then got pregnant after (which is good) but she told our cla__s she was planning on either eating it or planting it or both...me and my friend joked about her all the time b/c of the strange things she said and did and joked about her "placenta soup"... I really think it's pretty gross but hey, whatever floats your boat! I could never ever do and would never want to!! Yuck!

Never ever heard of that before, but i'm in the states. Crazy tho "me" is right, all other mammals do eat it, never even thought of that. Not that I would tho.

OMG!!! Have you ever SEEN a placenta? It is gross, no way would I fathom eating it. It reminds me of something Hannibal Lector would do. Ugh!

That sounds a bit cannibalistic to me. It is just sick and wrong!

From what I understand this dates back to quite a while ago, when the medical field wasnt quite as advanced. Women tend to lose a lot of blood and nutrients during labour and eating the placenta is a quick way to boost the body again with iron etc.

I personally would not eat it. I have a very touchy stomach and just the thought of it makes me kind of nauseous! I couldn't bring myself to eat it because I know that it was inside of me. But To each his own.

Animals eat their after-birth. I personally think it sounds disgusting. Didn't they do that on an episode of Fear Factor? Oh, there are some really expensive conditioners that have placenta in them. They stink, but they make your hair soft.

Well, J-Lo uses it on her skin and look how good she looks. I think I'm going to eat mine, to get all the vitamins back in me after I give birth. Cats do it.

Well I have my sons placenta in the freezer, its been there for nearly 2 years now! In NZ it is Maori tradition to bury it under a fruit tree and then as it grow and bear fruits, you can eat them and the ground has been nourished by the placenta. This is such a nice idea, hence why I have it in my freezer. Just have to get round to planting a tree now.......

well it's the first time too ever hear some thing like this....yes i did heard that few culture plant it...i wonder how would some one say to their doctor or nurses that they want to have the placenta to eat at home??..lol..i heardthat few hospital takes the placenta for few surgical purposes and it can be useful some purposes don't know exactly what?

it's great, i had it for breakfast!