Comments on: I’ll have my baby with a side of placenta

By: Launi

Launi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:48:13 +0000

Thanks so much for this article. We’ve been researching this placenta therapy information and your experience has been really fun and informative to read. You are a crack up but still able to deliver–haha–valuable insight.

By: B

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:40:54 +0000

in response to “Josh” Placenta Encapsulation is actually a traditional Chinese Medicine and has been in practice for a really long time. TCM use’s placenta to treat lactation and fatigue, which we know to be a pre cursor to postpartum depression. There are some minimal studies done on the effects of breastfeeding and lactation, there are studies done on the contents of iron and hormones in placentas and related studies done on how iron and hormones can be used to prevent the baby blues leading to postpartum depression. There are more studies, specific to placenta encapsulation underway.

Here’s some links: http://placentabenefits.info/research.asp

By: Paula Maack

Paula Maack — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:21:48 +0000

HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!!! That last line was RICH!!! Thank you for that!

How cool that you did this. I wish I knew about this option 19 years ago, when I needed it. I hope it is less repulsive to consume with time.

Congratulations, by the way. I am glad baby and mama are well.

Cheers,

~ Paula

By: Kristen Lindquist

Kristen Lindquist — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:47:16 +0000

Wow, that’s an amazing, amusing, and very interesting story! Just when I thought I’d heard the weirdest pregnancy story yet. Well, okay, Octo Mom still has you beat, but I can read your story and not worry about your ability to mother your child. (Because you’ve got those tablets waiting just in case…) Thank you for sharing!

By: Martha Silano

Martha Silano — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:36:06 +0000

Oh’m'gosh, this is great! I loved the pics of the shriveled p and the suggestion that the cord be used for teething. YUM! Seriously, I wanted to keep my placenta but the docs told me that because 75% of it hard torn away during my first trimester, they wanted it for SCIENCE. Not to be someone on whom anything is lost, I wrote a poem all about this practice and my regret for missing out. . all about the mamas who eat their placentas . . .with onions, peppers, a little hot sauce. But no one mentioned BURPING. Ugh! I am just so glad you didn’t have a bad post partum period, Meghan. Thank the lord you didn’t have to choke down more of those pills!!

By: Jenny @ Nourished Kitchen

Jenny @ Nourished Kitchen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:52:50 +0000

My acupuncturist suggested eating the placenta after my son’s birth. I just didn’t have it in me. I think the capsule form has got to be a lot easier to ingest with a lot less “eeew” factor.

By: Deborah Pardes

Deborah Pardes — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:31:40 +0000

this made me laugh and do kegels…

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:34:49 +0000

Can you please link to any available information supporting the efficacy of preventing and/or treating post-partum depression with placenta? It sounds like such a dubious claim, I’m curious what sort of research there is to support it. The diet and health industry is full of products making unsupported health claims to sell products (e.g., airborne http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/makers-of-airborne-settle-false-ad-suit-with-refunds/?scp=1&sq=airborne%20litigation&st=cse) (in this case I guess it’s a service, since the mother and baby are manufacturing the main ingredient).

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:35:30 +0000

Ok that was a weird article, but VERY interesting. Congratulations on the birth of your baby!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:35:11 +0000

Hilarious! Hmmm…I had a mild case of the “baby blues” for a few weeks after giving birth…I still don’t know that I would have consumed the placenta…