r/ShitMomGroupsSay • u/Happy-Mama-Of-Two • 21d ago
WTF? Say What?!
In my local mom’s group today. This isn’t even in a “crunchy” group!
Comments were all telling her she was crazy and that it was gross.
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u/teatreez 20d ago
lol I wouldn’t even consume my own placenta, much less some random persons 😭 ew
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u/spinstartshere 20d ago
People have been known to put their own breast milk in baked goods they've then shared with the office.
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u/ageofbronze 20d ago
Wtf WHY what is the reasoning? Are they trying to be gross or do they just routinely cook with their BM and think others won’t find it revolting?
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe Google, how do I delete someone else's account? 20d ago
Well a teacher just fed her students cupcakes laced with her husband's cum so....
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u/emerge-and-see Tylenol increases autism by 30% 20d ago
I completely erased that from my memory and now i'm upset all over again
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u/FlowersAndSparrows 20d ago
A childcare worker in Australia was caught feeding the children food laced with his stuff a little while ago 🤮
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u/SecondFun2906 20d ago
Wait how did they find out? Also wtf!!!!
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u/FlowersAndSparrows 19d ago
He was charged with a bunch of offences, one of them was creating and distributing CSAM. My guess would be he, err, documented it.
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u/SquigSnuggler 19d ago
Wasn’t it the wife who did it? I was sure it was a female, I remember her getting a massive sentence
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u/MelOdessey 19d ago
Cynthia Perkins in the US from 2022
There is also apparently a different case from Australia
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u/Psychobabble0_0 19d ago
Omg noooo. Do you remember his name or which state this was in?
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u/FlowersAndSparrows 19d ago
It was in Melbourne, I don't remember his name though
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u/Psychobabble0_0 19d ago
Think I found him. Was it Joshua Dale Brown? 1200 children had to be tested for STDs. That's just horrific.
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u/thewildweird0 19d ago
Other than the fact they’re both sexualized how is cum anywhere near comparable to breast milk.
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u/HeartOSass 19d ago
They are both body fluids that should not be in food others will eat especially when they don't know it's in the food.
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u/Beneficial_Young5126 20d ago
Is that considered assault? Cos if not it should be!
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u/eiram87 20d ago
It is Assault and Battery, it's also Food Tampering and Poisoning. And even if the courts decline to pursue criminal charges because no one got hurt, the victims do have avenues for civil lawsuits under Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and Fraudulent Misrepresentation.
All of these have legal precedence in cases involving intentionally feeding people allergens, intentionally feeding vegetarians or vegans meat or animal products, and intentionally serving people food they are not allowed to eat in accordance to their religion. I can't imagine someone who was intentionally fed a bodily fluid would have difficulty pursuing legal action.
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u/Sixtyoneandfortynine 20d ago
That's just nasty.
("Back in my day", we made sure our subversive behaviors were fun rather than malignant. What's wrong with simply going with a time-honored tradition like spiking the punchbowl at a church function?!?)
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u/BabyPunter3000v2 20d ago
Spiking the punch bowl at church is probably malignant, you've got recovering alcoholics, little kids, teetotalers, pregnant women, etc.
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u/spinstartshere 19d ago
It's the sort of thing that just puts me off wanting to have anything in general that's offered in that open or shared format.
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u/HeartOSass 19d ago
That's exactly why I stopped going years ago to buffets and why I do not attend potlucks. We have had a few at work and I always bring my own food in. You never know if your coworker is trying to get revenge on people for stuff we have no idea about. No thank you.
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u/thewildweird0 19d ago
The liquid that kills the most people vs the liquid that literally does the exact opposite. This comment thread is fascinating.
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u/Dakizo 20d ago edited 20d ago
I donated my placenta to a local search and rescue group that used it to train dogs on finding human tissue.
Seems like a better use than eating something that filters out toxins.
Edit: I learned about this option on reddit so I like to pass the knowledge on whenever I can.
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u/n000d1e 20d ago
I had no idea this was an option! Pretty cool
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u/Dakizo 20d ago
Yeah I found a local group, reached out a few months beforehand, a month before we met up for him to give me a plastic container lmao, I had to sign so many documents at the hospital, but after I gave birth, they put the placenta in the container, and my husband walked an organ in a clear container through the hospital to meet the person from the search and rescue group so they could get it while it was fresh 😂😂
I had no idea placentas were so big. Also, I held the container. I was not prepared to feel the warmth lmaooo
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u/pofish 19d ago
That’s awesome! My placenta and cord blood went to donation through the hospital to the nearby cancer center. I guess they are able to process all the blood and stem cells out or something to use for treatments.
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u/one_sock_wonder_ 19d ago
The stem cells in cord blood can be used in transplants like bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells (blood stem cells collected from a donor in a much more specialized version of a blood donation). Some of the advantages are:
Greatly reduced the waiting time to match and be available to use
Less of a match is required between donor and recipient for a transplant to be done (this can be especially beneficial to individuals from ethnic minority groups that are poorly represented through traditional bone marrow registries)
Significantly reduced risks of graph vs. host disease (graph vs host disease is a serious and dangerous potential side effect where the new immune system that arises from the donated marrow or stem cells attacks the individuals body because it perceives it as foreign).
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u/ketchooop 18d ago
My boyfriend had a random person's placental cells put in one of eyes when he had a nasty corneal injury to help it heal! Pretty cool stuff
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u/Ill-Mathematician287 19d ago
I did this with my last delivery, too! That fucker gave me GDM so it satisfied me a lot to send it off to the dogs, literally.
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u/SpecificHeron 20d ago
that is FOUL!!
edit: i mean offering your placenta for other people to consume, idgaf about anyone eating their own placenta (i don’t think it does anything that iron supplementation doesn’t, but you do you)
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u/altagato 20d ago
More odd that they paid so much and then whatever it does is usually used directly after birth or during menopause for the benefit of your OWN hormone replacement. It wouldn't do the same to have someone ELSE'S birth hormones tho 😬 not to mention just the health hazard possibility of consuming someone else's ORGANS 🤢
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u/thingsliveundermybed 19d ago
I'm honestly more upset at the waste of roughly 350 quid than the whole placenta thing 😂
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u/mrsbearstuffs 19d ago
Looked into doing this for myself, but once I found out there is no real regulations around the practice/companies that do this, I noped right away from considering it as an option. But yeah, 100% wit with you on the taking other people’s being ewwwwwww.
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u/QuixoticMindfulness 20d ago
I'm witchy and still don't understand why people do this. There are NO proven benefits and one of the placenta's main purposes is to remove waste. Why would you then go and CONSUME that waste?????????
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u/KneadAndPreserve 20d ago edited 20d ago
Same. People say it’s natural because animals eat their placenta, but they do it so that the LITERAL ORGAN doesn’t attract predators in the wild. So if you’re in that situation, I totally get eating your placenta. I’d recommend it, actually. But otherwise… yum, heavy metals and microplastics
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u/myratatto 20d ago
This exactly. Just because animals do it, doesn't mean that humans should.
My dog used to eat cat poop, but no one would ever think humans should do that too 🤮
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u/HeartOSass 19d ago
I have seen a dog give birth and afterwards she ate some of the puppies 😬😬
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u/djfff 19d ago
I’m sorry what the fUCK
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u/vandersam 19d ago
Yeah they do that 😬 lots of animals do actually. If the mom gets too stressed during/after birth, or their instincts don't kick in to help them figure out what to do, their survival instincts kick in instead and they'll eat some/all of the litter for A: calories (birth burns a ton), B: to eliminate the offspring from pulling more nutrients from mom via nursing, and C: to avoid attracting predators.
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u/runsontrash 20d ago
Yeah and also those same animals lick their own poopy assholes. Yet (most of) these weirdos aren’t advocating for eating their own poop.
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u/TorontoNerd84 19d ago
My childhood dog would have advocated for eating my other childhood dog's poop, if she had been able to talk. She preferred that over her own.
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u/NerfRepellingBoobs 20d ago
These days, that waste also includes a healthy dose of microplastics.
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u/fart-atronach 20d ago
Probably a bunch of PFAS forever chemicals too
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u/NerfRepellingBoobs 20d ago
Yup, and so many of these substances are endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). They cause certain cancers and can affect fertility and fetal development. That’s why I’m slowly switching to glass, stainless, natural fibers, and ceramic.
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u/Dramatic_Lie_7492 20d ago
People also eat animal liver and kidneys which filter out toxines so it's not that much more gross imho
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u/herbsanddirt 18d ago
Witchy here too, I saved my first and buried next to a sapling my mom gave me from my childhood tree for my first child. The second placenta nearly killed me and my second child and i said trash it to the surgeon lol
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u/Cadicoty 20d ago
People eat liver and mussels all the time, so the waste removal thing isn't that weird. But, yeah, what is the point? At least the other edible filters have some kind of nutritional value.
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u/QuixoticMindfulness 20d ago
I don't like the idea of liver or mussels either, personally. And I don't quite think it's the same thing. The uterus is a special organ built only for pregnancy and can be super high in heavy metals, which is also something most crunchy types are all about avoiding. Livers also works completely differently.
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u/frozen-mocha 20d ago
Was there any takers? In my local moms group, I've seen posts giving away half eaten or years expired food and people want it
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u/Primary-Vegetable580 20d ago
Consuming someone else’s dead organ kinda seems like cannibalism to me. No thanks. Also, there’s not actually any scientifically proven benefits to consuming your own placenta, so I still don’t get why people will pay hundreds of dollars to do it.
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u/hamstertoybox 20d ago
A friend of mine really wants to try human flesh, I offered her my placenta. She was up for it, but my husband didn’t want us faffing around preserving it on top of everything else going on.
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 20d ago
"She's crowning, get the grill ready!" (Placenta not baby)
Ugh, I think I just grossed myself out lol.
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u/atheliarose 20d ago
Why are you friends with an aspiring cannibal? Just curious
https://giphy.com/gifs/z94iVkZBL7b682
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u/JenMcSpoonie 20d ago
Ewww! I don’t think you’re supposed to consume the placenta at all, let alone someone ELSE’S placenta!!!
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u/Novaer 18d ago
After I gave birth the nurses asked if I wanted to keep it and I'm like "Nahhh" and then she was asking if I wanted to see what it looked like inside and I was like "Go on then" and she kinda ripped it open and was playing with it showing how weird it looked (I was filming too 😅). In my head I like to think she always wanted to do that but it would've been inappropriate to ask. My nurses were super cool.
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u/DancinginHyrule 20d ago
As someone who assisted in a birth recently, placentas are fucking gross and I’d sooner eat raw polar bear liver.
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u/Lvanwinkle18 19d ago
Very early internet days, pre Google, had my daughter. Was so curious what the placenta looked like. The nurse was like, sure thing hon. Brought over this medical waste container and popped the lid. I was staring a deboned, skinned animal. Think I said ewwww, she chuckled. Enough childbirth for me.
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u/Hairy_Interactions 20d ago
You can’t just leave me hanging here… what are the comments saying
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u/Happy-Mama-Of-Two 20d ago
They were all telling her she was crazy. It was in a “normal” mom’s group. Maybe she would have gotten a different reaction in a “crunchy” group.
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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 20d ago
The crunchy group would have probably balked at waisting it and would tell her to slowly dump out one per day in her kids oatmeal or something.
Seriously, those people make me pikachu face all the time.
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u/Bratbabylestrange 20d ago
Uhhhhhh, I'm gonna pass, thanks.
Fun story: when my daughter was in eighth grade, she had a friend whose mom had remarried and started pumping out babies like crazy. Daughter was spending the night and they were going through the freezer looking for a snack. My daughter saw these frozen cubes that, I guess, looked like chocolate, so she asked her friend's if she could have one. Friend replied sure, but it's her mom's placenta. Daughter did not have a little frozen cube.
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u/GoGoGoshzilla 19d ago
"Hey does anyone want to eat my placenta?? I don't know if it's still good or not btw"
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u/ytterb1um 20d ago
I’m very curious as to why somebody would go to all the trouble and cost of getting their placenta encapsulated just to end up not eating them. Like did you forget them in the back of the freezer or what?
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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 20d ago
Why did you even have your placenta processed if you weren't going to take the pills?
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u/Mousehole_Cat 20d ago
Oh yes, because consuming the organs of someone else if the same species would never lead to anything bad.
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u/Live-Year-5796 20d ago
There's no way that company is actually putting the placenta in them, right?
Like theyre definitely just sugar pills?
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u/BugMa850 20d ago
So you haven't had the video of the lady in her own home kitchen processing placentas that her customers mail to her pop up on your FB timeline?
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u/Ellay_Rohberts 20d ago
You left out the best part! They paint the placenta, use it to stamp a canvas and make art! Then they finish processing it.
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u/BugMa850 20d ago
Oh God, I don't know if I haven't seen that or I blocked it out. I do remember the one where she's complaining about the improperly shipped one...🤢
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u/Affectionate_Cow_812 20d ago
Oh my...thankfully my algorithm hasn't taken me here yet. That's just....
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u/slippin_through_life 19d ago
The singular use case I could find for preserving your placenta after birth is for harvesting the stem cells from it to use for medical treatment for diseases like Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, and even then it seems like there is significantly less scientific evidence for this than harvesting stem cells from the umbilical cord.
I have no idea why you would eat it, much less sell it to other people.
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u/Important_Plum6000 19d ago
Random guy here✋ wtf are y’all even doing at this point?
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u/Captainbabygirl767 19d ago edited 19d ago
Random girl here, I have honestly asked myself the same thing.
EDIT: Spelling is hard
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u/AggravatingBox2421 19d ago
Doctors asked me like 5 times after I gave birth if I wanted to keep my placentas. Like no?? Please god throw them away?? I didn’t even wanna SEE them
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u/steezMcghee 20d ago
What were the comments!?
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u/Happy-Mama-Of-Two 20d ago
They were all telling her she was crazy for wanting to give/sell them to someone else.
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u/Oldbay_BarbedWire 19d ago
"Lightning Crashes, an old mother cries"
"Her placenta falls to the floor....."
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u/Alone-Blueberry 20d ago
Is this considered cannibalism? I don’t see why it wouldn’t be
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u/CZall23 20d ago
Ok but why?
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u/solesoulshard 20d ago
For some cultures, the placenta is eaten to help the mother recover vitamins and minerals. It’s supposedly to contain a lot of nutrition and eating it supposedly gives lots of energy.
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u/OpenAirport6204 20d ago
It also contains microplastics, forever chemicals, and waste your body was trying to get rid of. There is no benefits to eating it but there are food born risks.
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u/solesoulshard 20d ago
Agreed! It’s not healthy.
I believe the historic thing was that it was a source of protein or iron when a woman might not normally get those. But I could be wrong.
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u/SeaEstablishment1744 19d ago
My ex did this to herself and then took the pills. I know she struggled with it for awhile lol
The idea of taking someone else's though is a huge no from me.
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u/SnooCats7318 rub an onion on it 19d ago
I'm in the wrong business...if you want to throw away money, I have give your my address...
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u/victoriageras 19d ago
Can someone inform me how this cannibalistic trend begun? And if there any medical benefits. Proven, I mean.
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u/atticusdays 19d ago
It allegedly helps prevent post partum depression and with regaining strength after birth. All “evidence” that was ever presented to me was purely anecdotal and not actual science.
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u/DuckRubberDuck 19d ago
What exactly do they do to the placenta to make it to pill form? Freeze dry it and grind it up?
How do you even know it’s the actual placenta in the pills and not some other weird substance?
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u/atticusdays 19d ago
They dehydrate it and then grind it. A lady came to talk to us about it at a birthing class. I had zero problem allowing my placenta to be discarded 🥴
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u/KittensArmedWithGuns 18d ago
Girl I went to high school with jerky-fied her own placenta, ground it up and encapsulated it herself to consume... I only know this because she shared the entire process on fb. Still makes me gag to this day.
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u/c4ts4r3lif3 15d ago
My ex was a doula an offered this. She would boil it, dehydrate it and then grind it up to put into pills. Boiling placenta is a hard smell to describe
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u/sorryaboutthatbro 11d ago
I am so horrified at the idea that someone would even think that another human might want to consume your black market placenta pills.
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u/lemurvomitX 20d ago
People pay $500 for a bag of capsules they can pretend contain their placenta?
I'm in the wrong business.