her own placenta. I don't know if I should be or

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/03/26/mad-mom-january-jones-eats-her-own-placenta/

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"January Jones credits eating her own placenta, along with a healthy diet and vitamins, to helping her get back to work on the hit series, “Mad Men,” in a matter of weeks. She told People.com, “Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas.” “It’s not witch-crafty or anything,” said Jones, who plays Betty on the TV show. “I suggest it to all moms.”"

3/26/2012 9:21:41 PM

I heard about this, my friend keeps hers in a jar...

3/26/2012 9:23:23 PM

Pretty sure you can buy placenta at the grocery store.

I much prefer those who plant their placenta by a tree. That seems less wacko than eating it.

3/26/2012 9:23:26 PM

Its not really her own placenta

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3/26/2012 9:31:10 PM

I make some amazing placenta pancakes

3/26/2012 9:35:21 PM

Looks more like placenta crepes, amirite.

3/26/2012 10:06:31 PM

Ohhhhh, I was thinking of pancetta and was surprised at the objections.

3/26/2012 10:08:47 PM

I've heard of companies that will make your placenta into vitamins in pill form in your home. I'd do that but straight up cutting into it w a knife? Nope.

3/26/2012 10:16:40 PM

seriously, every other mammal does it. doesn't bother me a bit.

3/26/2012 10:47:35 PM

If you take medical advice from someone named "January," this is no better than you deserve.

Doesn't matter that she's just an actress. "My oncologist, Rainbow Apple Dolphinlove-Smith, suggested that I bathe in whale menses to cure my pancreatic cancer." You wouldn't take that sentence seriously either, even if the person in question really was an MD.

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3/26/2012 11:32:23 PM

NOM NOM NOM



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3/26/2012 11:34:21 PM

3/26/2012 11:38:42 PM

3/26/2012 11:46:06 PM

Every other mammal eats their meat uncooked. I'm gonna start doing that too

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3/27/2012 12:18:39 AM

Every other mammal eats their meat uncooked. I'm gonna start doing that too

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3/27/2012 12:20:49 AM

How is this man still alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r4R4Wkdllk

3/27/2012 12:26:41 AM

Hahahahahahahaha i forgot about that dude

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3/27/2012 5:11:21 AM

Quote :

"Its not really her own placenta"

haha I know - I thought about not phrasing it that way, but the article title used it, so I left it.

basically.... I'm lazy

3/27/2012 8:00:10 AM

3/27/2012 8:25:15 AM

I thought about freeze drying & encapsulating mine like she did. NBD.
I also wanted to look at it after...totally forgot to ask.
Placenta sammiches though? No.

3/27/2012 8:37:03 AM

how is this any different than taking a regular vitamin, or eating one really nutritious meal?

3/27/2012 8:59:49 AM

Pics or it didn't happen

3/27/2012 4:26:30 PM

Quote :

"I thought about freeze drying & encapsulating mine like she did."

I have also thought about doing this but everywhere I look it is about $300 to do it.

It is basically like a vitamin that has all the nutrition in it that the baby was receiving from the mom while in utero. The people who do it around charlotte steam, then dry it out like beef jerky, then crush it into powder and put into capsules. Still has most of the good properties when done that way.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM. Reason : It def looks gross, don't get me wrong, just glad I wouldn't be making the capsules.]

3/27/2012 4:52:18 PM

Quote :

"It is basically like a vitamin that has all the nutrition in it that the baby was receiving from the mom while in utero."

how is this different than taking a multivitamin?

3/27/2012 5:03:29 PM

a different hormone is created by the placenta when you are pregnant that is not there otherwise.

3/27/2012 5:04:45 PM

oh. what is that hormone/what does it do?

3/27/2012 5:05:52 PM

it is what keeps the body from rejecting the baby while in the mother.

regular stuff like progestins and estrogens but in higher supply but other placenta things...

here is a link

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/reprod/placenta/endocrine.html

3/27/2012 5:09:21 PM

that's pretty interesting. thanks punchmonk

3/27/2012 5:21:49 PM

3/27/2012 5:44:38 PM

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"I Regret Eating My Placenta It’s not as gross as it sounds, but then, it couldn’t possibly be, right? As a first-time pregnant lady living in crunchy Santa Monica, Calif., next to a raw food restaurant and a seemingly oxymoronic homeopathic pharmacy, hiring a so-called celebrity placenta processor seemed to make sense. Even the hospital birth class had suggested the practice of eating one’s own placenta as a natural way to ward off postpartum depression. It’s normal. It’s natural. Even January Jones is doing it. Additional potential benefits of a placenta pill included the ability to improve breast milk supply, increase energy and even prevent aging. Talk about a miracle pill! Who wouldn’t sign up for placentophagia, the scientific word (usually referring to animals) for the practice of eating one’s own placenta? Me — or at least, the prepregnant me. I’ve spent my career helping young women to avoid scams and misperceptions that prey on their body insecurities, and I pride myself on thorough research and general common sense. The old Nancy would have pulled the placenta pills out of a friend’s hand screaming, “You don’t know what’s actually in that! Natural doesn’t always mean good.” But impending motherhood had shaken me. Delivery room horror stories and tales of baby blues caused my husband and me to spend months educating ourselves to best navigate the worst possible outcomes. So we were blindsided by the one scenario that seemed least likely: an awesome labor and delivery. Still, I was so freaked out about the possibility of awful things happening to me that I started taking the placenta pills as a sort of insurance policy. After our son’s birth, I was meticulous about what went into my body. I declined all pain medication stronger than ibuprofen, and I even stopped using deodorant, fearing the rumors were true that aluminum might seep into my breast milk. I was a cheerful and healthy new mother. So why did I gobble placenta ground with what the processor mysteriously referred to as “cleansing herbs”? Somehow, it seemed like a good idea at the time. But in my case, it was a terrible idea. Shortly after my first dose of two pills, I felt jittery and weird. By the next day, after just eight placenta pills, I was in tabloid-worthy meltdown mode, a frightening phase filled with tears and rage. This lasted another couple of awful days before my husband suggested that it wasn’t postpartum mommy madness finally making its appearance, but the hormone-and-goodness-knows-what-else-filled placenta pills. My husband isn’t a doctor (though he is the son of doctors and has played one on screen), but he was right. After I went cold turkey on the placenta pills, I immediately felt better —exorcised even, of an entity that had willingly left my body but that I had stupidly, and with no medical supervision, scarfed back up. Motherhood returned to being marvelous, save sleep deprivation. At my six-week checkup, I told my wonderful obstetrician that she should have never let me take my placenta home (medical consent is necessary at most hospitals, and she had somewhat grudgingly plopped my placenta in a to-go plastic bag as soon as I delivered it). While the Internet is teeming with individual pro-placenta stories, they are as anecdotal, and in my case as absurdly off beam, as alien sightings. Eight months later my son and I are fine, but I’m kicking myself for being so gullible without a single shred of proof. Perhaps one day there will be clinical studies on human placentophagia, and we’ll find out more about the pros and cons of the practice. Possibly we’ll eventually be able to obtain a prescription for placenta processing, to make sure we know what’s really in those “cleansing herbs.” These are all concerns I have with the unregulated process in hindsight, which of course is always 20/20. And I wonder: how many other women are putting their trust in their placenta as a minimizer of baby blues when it very well may be a cause of their mama drama? Maybe it was sheer coincidence that I went nuts right after I started taking my placental pills and returned to normal almost immediately after stopping. If I had continued, I might not have all this new gray hair, and I might have lost this stubborn baby weight faster. Who knows? I do know that I regret eating my placenta — if only because I am disappointed in myself for letting fear and insecurity cause me to make a potentially dangerous decision without doing due diligence on its safety. Part of the reason I wanted to eat my placenta in the first place is that I am fascinated by the human body and all that it can do. The placenta is an incredible organ that deserves celebration. But — as with the appendix and other organs that the body tends to deem unnecessary — once it comes out, maybe it should stay out."

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/i-regret-eating-my-placenta/?hp

Questions: when the baby is inside does it create waste matter, like poo? and if so, where does that go? Is it absorbed by the placenta? Does the baby poo in the placenta before birth? Do people who eat their placenta also eat their baby's poo?

3/27/2012 5:50:09 PM

I know that babies rarely poop while in the womb. I wonder where it goes as well if it does happen. I do know that the amniotic fluid they are in is full of their own urine.

About the placenta pills, all the moms I know that have used it did not have bad reactions, produced more milk with breast feeding, and the ones that always suffered postpartum did not. It has not been really studied enough to know the good and the bad.

3/27/2012 5:57:43 PM

Placenta burger with bacon, gureye cheese, garlic aoli, avacado and portabella mushroom. Tastes good man.

3/27/2012 5:59:07 PM

So what medical benefits can I get from eating my own semen?

Hypothetical question, of course.......

3/27/2012 6:07:37 PM

Everyone knows that prevents breast cancer dude

3/27/2012 6:17:22 PM

I always wondered if it was good for your skin...like better than acne medicines or creams. FACIALS!!!

3/27/2012 6:25:13 PM

I am prepared to take your theory to clinical trials

3/27/2012 6:41:16 PM

I hear massage envy lets you do a facial for $59 dollar bucks.

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3/27/2012 6:56:52 PM

3/27/2012 6:58:16 PM

That is disgusting.

3/27/2012 7:06:30 PM

3/28/2012 10:43:50 AM