Article: I Regret Eating My Placenta November 29, 2016 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,712 |
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Moo
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the noodler
I regret reading this article.
Really. If moos wants to go all natchural, then rip out the toilet and dishwasher while they're at it.
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twocents
right on studio54. hahahhahahahahhaha
climate is changing, and let this guy and others go on about it. I personally don't know if it is, it isn't, if it is how much we have to do with it from everything to nothing at all.
however, the ones that are rooting for it are giving the powers that be the excuse to do what finally needs to be done: one child policy and sterilization. If they don't do this to address this real problem then I think it falls under gubmint trying to extort yet more money.
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kittehpeoples
Why do I keep reading this topic as "I Regret Eating My Parents"?
And why would you need to be told you might regret eating something your body is trying to dispose of, probably for a damn good reason?
You too?
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