Chicagoist: Plentiful Placenta?

Ingrid

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:09:11 -0600

In olden days, consuming ones placenta may have been, for some people, the only viable way to build your blood back up after giving birth. Today, we don't need to do that...and I do lean towards the earth mother type as I did have a midwife to attend me.

BlueFairlane

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:58:12 -0600

Ritualistic sacrifice to the thunder god also worked for thousands of years. That doesn't mean I'm going to do it in pill form, or that I'm not going to make jokes about those who do.

smussy

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:21:40 -0600

oh, i knew the jokes would be coming. i'm the office manager for a midwife and we share space with acupuncturists who specialize in acupuncture for pregnancy, fertility, childbirth and the like. when one 'eats' a placenta, it's actually dried and prepared by an acupuncturist who is an herbalist or someone versed in chinese medicine. after it's dried, it's ground up and put into capsules, and swallowed just like any other pill. it's used to build the blood back up after giving birth, and has been done for many many years ... and i don't even intend on having kids, so i'm not some big earth mother type. but when things work for thousands of years, i'm inclined to at least be open-minded.

Ingrid

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:12:13 -0600

Or a tasty placenta smoothie/daquiri.

L. Stolpman

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:47:47 -0600

I think a nice placenta punch for the spring. Plan your births accordingly.

dopplerd

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:26:40 -0600

Also, interesting cognitive dissonance with confirmation that the placenta in the sewer (along with all of the other stuff in the sewer) does not pose a health risk and three sentences later there is an advocate for human consumption of the placenta.

BlueFairlane

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:17:50 -0600

I'm waiting for Stolpman to come up with the drink.

dopplerd

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:08:06 -0600

Plant a tree, weird. Lasting dried keepsake, creepy. But you missed the part were the lady suggests that you EAT the placenta! Is the economy so bad that we are looking for protein in human afterbirth?

vultureProtein

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:04:12 -0600

Placentas grow nicely in a shaded and moist environment; plant one accordingly.

Nicholas

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:57:17 -0600

OK, Eeeewwww.