2006-10-14 03:49:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Who the heck comes up with this crap? Do you feel like you know a cow just becuase you went to Burger King and ate part of a cow?
Not me..
2006-10-14 03:57:18 · answer #1 · answered by wizardslizards 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please don't automatically dismiss something that sounds gross to you, purely for that reason. Eating placenta has many health and psychological benefits. Many women eat it raw, in a smoothie, powdered in a capsul, stir-fried, steamed, baked, and yes even dried into jerkey.
Some benefits to eating placenta:
stops post partum hemorrhaging
rich source of nutrients
keeps mom's mental health in check (less likely to get PP depression)
I don't know if it's really a bonding experience or not (I haven't eaten placenta before), but it is certainly a way to keep mom healthy after birth.
2006-10-14 12:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by I ♥ EC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Placenta eating has been popular for millennia. it is even recommended in the bible (Deuteronomy). It is specifically called "placentophagia" but is loosely labeled as eating the "meat of life".
Among people it has long been considered a way of stimulating milk flow for nursing mothers and a way of tightening the family bonds between parents and children.
Among animals even normally vegetarian ones like cows and deer eat their newborn's placenta.
2006-10-14 11:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds gross, but you'd be surprised at how many people in the US still practice this. Hey I used to think salsa was gross till I tried that.
2006-10-14 10:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by M.B. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know Pamela Anderson took her's home and froze it with both of her children and made taco meat out if it and Jerkey and many other things people also use it for their hair it helps your hair alot they use it as shampoo. It is one of the most healthy thing you could eat. How else would it aid in keeping an infant healthy in a womb for 10 months.
2006-10-14 14:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by jennys2382 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are gross for even thinking it much less asking.
2006-10-14 10:54:20 · answer #6 · answered by 10 pts for me? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GROSS, why not just donate it or something like that. I think people do that...anyway it's better then what your suggesting.
2006-10-14 10:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by dzd&cnfsd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.....gross
2006-10-14 12:51:15 · answer #8 · answered by swanseaemtgirl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
gross. but in some cultures its considered a delicacy
2006-10-14 10:59:36 · answer #9 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yuk, but it gives you back plenty of Iron!
2006-10-14 10:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by paul b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋