The practice of placentophagia, eating the placenta, is practiced in many parts of the world, and is said to stem postpartum depression and help to contract the uterus after the birth.
After Chrissy Schilling had her first baby over the weekend, her twin sister Kathy cooked up the placenta and they had a feast. They put it on pasta and on a sandwich. They even put pictures of the meal on Facebook!
Twin sister Kathy says:
I would say that the placenta is so nourishing for the baby during pregnancy that there is still much to gain from it even after the birth. It's a good 6 lbs of meat that's just chockful of lingering blood, vitamins, and hormones that can still in part be transferred upon eating -- even through cooking. When I cooked it, I cleaned the surface blood off of it, but kept anything that seaped out of it into the sauce. I know I was feeling pretty giddy while eating, so maybe that was some of the happy hormones effects taking place.
5 comments:
Thank you for that. Now my multi-grain Cheerios taste like afterbirth....
Oh god. What's next? "Here, honey, the yeast rolls are REALLY fresh today!"
Gross.
Okay...I'm an L&D nurse, and I have had many people ask to see the placenta, and ask to take it home to plant in the yard (supposed to be some symbolic thing--that I'm sure the neighborhood dogs LOVE), but never has anyone asked to take it home to eat. Let me just say, it is SOO not pretty to look at, raw or cooked! Just continues to show me that when I think I've seen it all...
Didn't David Carradine do something similar after the birth of one of his kids?
I just have a one word reply -- cannibalism.
There's a place near here where you can have it dried, ground up and encaplsized. So you can 'take' it in pill form. Supposedly the hormones really help stave off postpartum depression.
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