Please do not take placenta pills after delivery

[MillCreek]

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/oregon-infants-illness-prompts-warning-about-placenta-pills/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/cdc-warns-against-eating-placenta-in-case-you-needed-another-reason/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6625a4.htm?s_cid=mm6625a4_w

The benefits, if any, do not appear to outweigh the risks.  Plus, eww. Just eww.

[just Warren]

I've just given birth and you know what? I could really go for some light cannibalism just about now.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I've seen what gets pooped out the day after a bitch whelps. It's pretty *expletive deleted*ing gross. I'm not sure what the supposed health benefits are for peoples, but I'm betting that for the dogs it's merely natures way of making sure they get enough to eat after giving birth since nature doesn't know that we are standing by with bags and bags of fancy dog food these days.
I'm pretty sure human mothers have other, more palatable, options for food after giving birth and they know this. What's more, I'm not sure we ever had to chew the placenta off our babies, so nature probably doesn't want us to eat that.

The various fads and feely good BS that have surrounded the process of giving birth weird me the *expletive deleted*ck out. Sure, save the cord in a medical lab for stem cells. That makes sense. Preserving it and saving it as some kind of keep sake? WTF!?! You have a freeking BABY. I don't think you need anything else. Eating the placenta? Ewwww... Positioning a mirror so you can see it come out? Hello!! I'm pretty sure we aren't able to see that end at that time FOR A REASON!

[Neemi]

The top reasons for having a baby at the hospital are, in my opinion:

1. Medicine is amazing
2. I don't want to clean up the mess childbirthing makes
3. Room service will bring me a steak, fries, a milkshake, and a half dozen cookies after I have the baby.

Placental anything isn't for me, thanks.

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[zahc]

It's easy to understand how the practice got started, simply as a nutritional advantage. I haven't heard a credible reason for it in the modern world.

[zxcvbob]

*Polenta*, not placenta.  Thank-you.   (I can see how people would get that confused) 

[just Warren]

If polenta is coming out of you that would be amaizing.

[Perd Hapley]

If polenta is coming out of you that would be amaizing.

They say childbirth is a miracle.

[RoadKingLarry]

If polenta is coming out of you that would be amaizing.

Somebody is eating way too much corn.

[Pb]

As far as I know, all mammal moms eat the placenta except humans (well, usually).

[Regolith]

As far as I know, all mammal moms eat the placenta except humans (well, usually).

We're also the only mammal that has industrialized agriculture. I think there's a connection there...

[230RN]

I've had polenta of this thread.





I waited for someone else to conceive this, but my patients was not rewarded, so it fell to me to deliver it and you can thank me for the cervix.

[Scout26]

I've had polenta of this thread.





I waited for someone else to conceive this, but my patients was not rewarded, so it fell to me to deliver it and you can thank me for the cervix.

And I just now looked over to see the banschwerk all flashing and levitating....

[230RN]

Probably the worst punschwerk I ever put together.

<bows head in shame, beats bony old breast three times>

"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa."

<says "Act of Contrition," "Our Father," and ten "Hail Marys">

<cogitates on the plural form of "ten 'Hail Maries'">

<wonders about what the Catechism says about eating placentae>

<wonders about the plural form of "placenta">

<decides better shut up on pain of being accused of thread drift, to boot>

<shrugs, goes about other business>

X (230RN, His Mark)

[Firethorn]

As far as I know, all mammal moms eat the placenta except humans (well, usually).

The theory I read isn't that the new mom is eating it for the nutrition today, but something-something hormones, it is supposed to stimulate proper lactation and recovery after birth.

Sort of like how they'll now smear an infant's lips with 'fluids' to get that first microbial culture going, which we actually need for proper development of things like the immune system.