Ask a Mum who ate her Placenta - Page 11

bump_wanted · Mar 16th, 2010, 05:58 AM

ok so ill admit reading this im gaggin like a good one but then i took a deep breath and looked at the pics and it just doesnt look that bad to be honest actually it just looked like any organ when you think about it its probably a whole load more normal than eating some animals tongue or something having said that its still not for me but i can imagine it being a very spiritual emotional thing to do...thank you for sharing this with us i have learned a lot not least what a placenta actually looks like xx

AimeeM · Mar 16th, 2010, 09:45 AM

I always found the idea a little bit nasty but i am very funny with blood and gore etc. But after reading your posts and seeing the pics i look at in a different light.

The prints you did are lovely and to look at your placenta and think it was what made your baby thrive really is beautiful and i now see past the blood and see it as a thing of beauty as really they are as they are what make our babies survive.

I was also quite surprised how it does just look like a steak when cooked lol

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jenny_wren

i love the pics!!

how did you make the prints??

did you just press them onto paper?

x

pretty much! i cleaned some of the blood off with kitchen paper and just mad blood prints by pressing paper on to it. then when the blood ran out so to speak i used water based paint

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:37 PM

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Originally Posted by caz81

ive got a couple of questions about the emotiona laspect of it if thats ok?

1.you have mentioned a few times that you felt the need to do something with the placenta after the birth-why was that?

2. why was making the pics/eating it healing to you?

im not really sure, i just felt an emotional need to DO something. going through the proccess was healing. it smells of labour, hospital, blood.......the whole thing also took an entire day. most of it i was left to reflect on my birth and face up to how much being in hospital really messed with my head. it enabled me time and a proccess to deal with it all.

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:40 PM

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Originally Posted by katy

Very interesting. My initial thought was just "yuck" but it is actually really interesting.

Any chance you could post just a picture of the paint prints?...I really want to see that but too squeamish to click on the link because I'm not brave enough to look at the other pics

xx

all of my photos are on a disk ill did it out for you tomo and put a few of just prints up :-D

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Panda_Ally

Do u think that you will be upset when u finish your last capsule???

This is really interesting, I'm slightly temped if i am ever lucky enough to have another child.
I asked to look at my placenta after Holly was born and put a glove on a had a poke around with it (more of a curiousity than anything) But im glad i saw it and i didnt like the thought of it being thrown away.

I did want to donate it but i could cos i retained a bit so the membranes weren't 'whole'.

i havent really thought about it to be honest, proberly. i might just keep one forever lol

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bky

Very neat, thanks for sharing.

My mother dried both of my sibling's placentas. I have no idea if she ever did anything with them, she may have saved them for menopause since I discovered them (all dried up in baggies!) a good 6 years after my youngest sibling was born.
I'm planning on taking mine home and planting a tree or something on it. That's certainly the one part of my birth plan I'm absolutely inflexible on. I want to come home with #1 a baby, #2 the placenta.

have you posted about that on here before? i have read something like that before lol!!

milkmachine · Mar 16th, 2010, 17:44 PM

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Originally Posted by AimeeM

I always found the idea a little bit nasty but i am very funny with blood and gore etc. But after reading your posts and seeing the pics i look at in a different light.

The prints you did are lovely and to look at your placenta and think it was what made your baby thrive really is beautiful and i now see past the blood and see it as a thing of beauty as really they are as they are what make our babies survive.

I was also quite surprised how it does just look like a steak when cooked lol

it does totally look like steak LOL its softer though

dizzyisacow · Mar 17th, 2010, 12:52 PM

ick! i just cant get over the ickness.
but good thread to help those who are interested in doing it.

dani_tinks · Mar 18th, 2010, 05:55 AM

No questions, I just think it's amazing. I loved the pictures. Never seen a placenta before and my labour was so mental I didn't get the chance, so thankyou for sharing

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bump_wanted Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,729	ok so ill admit reading this im gaggin like a good one but then i took a deep breath and looked at the pics and it just doesnt look that bad to be honest actually it just looked like any organ when you think about it its probably a whole load more normal than eating some animals tongue or something having said that its still not for me but i can imagine it being a very spiritual emotional thing to do...thank you for sharing this with us i have learned a lot not least what a placenta actually looks like xx

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Mar 16th, 2010, 09:45 AM	#102
AimeeM Other BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 6,586	I always found the idea a little bit nasty but i am very funny with blood and gore etc. But after reading your posts and seeing the pics i look at in a different light. The prints you did are lovely and to look at your placenta and think it was what made your baby thrive really is beautiful and i now see past the blood and see it as a thing of beauty as really they are as they are what make our babies survive. I was also quite surprised how it does just look like a steak when cooked lol

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Mar 17th, 2010, 12:52 PM	#109
dizzyisacow Other BnB Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 9,807	ick! i just cant get over the ickness. but good thread to help those who are interested in doing it.

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Mar 18th, 2010, 05:55 AM	#110
dani_tinks Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Cornwall, UK. Posts: 6,349	No questions, I just think it's amazing. I loved the pictures. Never seen a placenta before and my labour was so mental I didn't get the chance, so thankyou for sharing

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