Eating Placenta??

[Brandi_Bear]

Have any of you moms done it? How does it taste??? What are your views?

[chloegc1023]

I heard of it, I was semi interested in trying it but not sure I would want to pay as much as it costs to get them encapsulated - that's the only way I would eat my own placenta..lol

[SoccerMom2009]

I'm going to ask my doctor and continue research. One of my best friends is a pediatrician so I'll ask her and then determine my decision. Informative decisions are the best.

[brookeP21]

Read real peer reviewed journals from actual research studies done....not on Google. It is not proven to be beneficial in anyway....besides....it is a human organ.  

[jenniannthompson]

Heard it was suppose to be good.  Not sure on actual studies though.  I just can't get pass the thought of eating my own body parts.  Lol.  If you try it you gotta tell me how it was.  Yum or yuck ;)

[bonnieella20]

My doc says theres no proof that it actually works and thinks its kinda like a placebo effect. He thinks you'll get the Same results from taking a sugar pill. Another point he had was that its covered completely in bacteria as it exits your body and it can be unsafe to eat if not thoroughly cleaned.

[wyattsmom2015]

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.

[due22jan15]

I could never do that it will be eating your own body part some people can be sick

[nonishy]

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.  

[jaloveslorelei]

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!

[whitney2121]

I just want to bury my placenta if I could.

[Brandi_Bear]

Why bury it?

[cass86steve]

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.

[MommyMom2014]

Ewww, the topic grosses me out. Yuck!

[nana070710]

First time i ever hear this !! This is i think too much!

[organicmama]

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.

[Future_Mommy1984]

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

[soccermomma84]

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.

[Furby85]

You may as well take a dump and eat it. I hear dogs get lots of nutrients from doing that. Sorry but thats disgusting:/-

[cass86steve]

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.

[smallbby]

lol!!!

[Huni_b]

ewwww - gross!
I never heard of eating placenta ... that sounds like cannibalism !!
I wish I hadnt read this just before having my lunch *smh*

[momof3ld]

I'm not trying to be judgmental but the thought grosses me out !

[jaloveslorelei]

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.

[Future_Mommy1984]

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.