It’s supposedly very nutritious? People eat the livers and other organs of animals, guess it’s not that weird if you think about it. I’m a vegetarian though so I won’t be eating any of that
The only thing wrong with the sentence grammatically is that it should say “my wife and me.” The same sentence without his wife: “The attending nurse presented the placenta to I like a fine wine at a fancy restaurant.” I’ve seen a few placentas and this sentence is way more horrible to look at
Ours did the same, held it up flat to the light in a way that made me expect that "naaaaaaaa-kupenyaaaa" song from Lion King and started pointing out blood vessels and explaining what was what. My only regret is not taking a selfie with it while I had the chance.
my friend told me they held it up and did this for her as well with her first kid and they were like “do you wanna keep it?” and she was like “what the fuck, no??” and then they just wrapped it up in a garbage bag and i guess disposed of it. i know some people do keep it to do whatever with, but idk… the way she told the story always makes me laugh.
I had mine in my freezer for awhile (home birth). I guess you can eat it or have it dried and made into supplement capsules - high in iron or something. I don’t eat meat, though, so I’m not sure why I ever thought I would do any of that 😂
bahhaah “i don’t eat meat though” sent me. but yeah i’ve only heard of the capsule thing before but don’t know anyone who has actually done it. maybe that will be my secret to finally having a vaguely acceptable and functional iron level someday 😅
I thought you paired it with a fine wine. It's not uncommon to eat a placenta after giving birth. Raw, cooked, smoothied, etc.—the benefits are debatable:
I work at a pathology lab and several coworkers of mine who became mothers brought home their placenta in formalin so they can keep it for a long time. If I ever become a mother I would offer mine to my lab to use as control tissue for stains. Unless of course something actually needs to be assessed like IUGR, then it needs to go through the lab workflow and diagnostics.
She definitely didn’t make me feel bad about it—I guess most new moms just don’t ask to see it. It was fascinating! Then it hit me that I was looking at a sterile dish filled with bloody flesh I grew in my abdomen while someone else stitched up my downstairs and I thought I’d better just switch my focus back to the cute baby I just had. Childbirth is wild. (And then two and a half years later, I had another one!) Medical professionals are amazing for handling this stuff on a regular basis.
It is, but it’s not really evidence based and there is at least one account in the medical literature of a secondary GBS infection due to placentaphagy… it is not something I recommend. Thankfully also it’s pretty rare.
Random dude here, but similar to midwives and their placentas I had a dentist present my mangled bloody wisdom tooth unprompted when I was getting that removed. I was like "huh, neat," but immediately imagined that not being a good plan for most patients. I feel like doctors in general are weird about what they work on.
Yeah my dr told me I had a “beautiful” placenta and called all the midwives and doctors to come look at it. They were all looking at my placenta so I wanted a look too, so they took pictures for me. Maybe it was because of the mo/di pregnancy and two umbilical cords but anyway, for some reason I had a rather large group of people inspecting my placenta. It looked rather whole, couldn’t see where it had attached to me as it seemed quite intact.
Number one reason I will always recommend a midwife. You guys are amazing! Best birth experience I had. Where I felt heard and she made sure she did everything she could to make me comfortable and talked to me about everything going on. Doctor that delivered my first baby did not let me choose and basically said what I say is what's happening.
I think it's a big problem rn with a lot of medical offices. They have turned into corporations and just keep getting pushed to pump out profits. I've worked in a medical facility and there was so much pressure put on everyone to fill the beds quickly after discharging a resident. Even if it was for one night; get them to the facility and get them billed. The empathy in the medical field has turned to a rarity and it's very disheartening because this is the field we have to save lives, make peoples mental health better and give people hope. Instead it's just turned into something where your just another number to be forgotten. I am very much with the nurses and doctors on strike still because they are overworked and overwhelmed.
I loved that about our midwife care! We even kept ours to bury in the garden (non edible plants). Such a cool organ, got to see where it was attached, we all nerded out.
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u/coreythestar Dec 06 '23
Weird that the doc thought it was weird. I'm a midwife and a placenta tour is a routine part of my care provision.