Anyone going to eat their Placenta ????

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Originally Posted by fairyfrog

Yes, I ate it to prevent PPD. It was a great success. I will eat it again with my next birth.

Your body excretes breast milk...that is not waste.

Some have it dehydrated ground up and put in capsules. In Japan you can actually by it at the local food mart/drugstore.

I personally cut mine into 7 pieces and blended it with a strawberry smoothie once a day for 7 days. No taste or after taste. It tasted like strawberry smoothie. I did this with my fifth child after having severe PPD with my other 4. I was willing to try anything! I did it and My baby and I avoided PPD and the side affects of antidepressants!

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Fair play to you FairyFrog, if it helps you.
But for me personally it is not something I would even entertain as possible. I am even a little queasy reading your smoothie recipe.

But I am a veggie and I feel queasy in a butcher shop, that cold, raw meat and blood smell just turns my stomach.

I had to read this thread title twice lol. I have heard of that, but no, it's definitely not something done around here (that I know of) and I don't think I could do it. I'm really not worried a tiny bit about PPD, although I'm sure it has other benefits too!

Each to thei own but even the title made me feel sick lol!!!!! I am a really queasy person though so probably not the best person to ask!!!!

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Originally Posted by Pearl327

Fair play to you FairyFrog, if it helps you.
But for me personally it is not something I would even entertain as possible. I am even a little queasy reading your smoothie recipe.
But I am a veggie and I feel queasy in a butcher shop, that cold, raw meat and blood smell just turns my stomach.

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Used to be a veggie so I can empathize with you.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. I took comfort in the fact that I made it myself and that I knew what went into my body. The strawberries are what helped me get through it and the fact that I was "doing it for the baby!" :)

Not a chance :/

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Originally Posted by fairyfrog

Your body excretes breast milk...that is not waste.

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Good point, but the purpose of the breast milk excretion is to nourish a child, not to rid the body of the substance, so that's entirely different :)

But hey, if its worked for you then great, each to their own, and if you've found something that you believe is of help then stick with it :)

I was never brave enough to LOOK at the placenta after delivery, let alone to eat it :( This is the first time I see placenta and I don't like it lol!

But if it works, that's excellent!

I actually did the process and encapsulated it but couldn't bring myself to take it lol. I have never had ppd but if I did I probably would. What scared me is it is some pretty hardcore stuff and said not to to ake if you were sick or whatever I read and it scared me off.

I think I honestly may throw up at the thought of that... Sorry I don't mean to offend anyone that will or did do this

I don't eat any waste my body purges, so no.

It's a placebo effect.