Edible Placenta? - I Want My Placenta Back!
Placenta's contains high levels of prostaglandin which stimulates an inward curvature or penetration, or, a shrinking or return to a former size of the uterus, in effect cleaning the uterus out.
I know a lot of people are grossed out by the idea of eating the placenta, even though this is something that mammals do naturally. It's called Placentophagy and aren't we mammals too? Native Americans use to do so with their own placentas but when Europeans came they highly discourage it because they believed that it was and savage act, thus one of the reasons for calling the Native Americans savages.
It's is said that the hormones in the placenta help the mother have a speedy recovery from the birth. Or maybe it's a way of providing nutrition to her because when an animal has given birth it's probably too tired to go out and forage for food.
If you go to the internet you'll find many sites with directions on how to dehydrate your placenta and recipes for placenta's such as roast placenta, placenta cocktail, Placenta Lasagna, and Placenta Spaghetti Bolognaise.
From what I know when nobody claims their placenta hospitals usually sell it to cosmetic companies. Cosmetic companies profit greatly from the use of the placenta. Have you ever notice that pregnant women's skin looks so smooth and clean? It's because of their placentas. Placenta cosmetics can do wonders for the skin especially for anti-aging purposes.
Swanson and a group of other women protested outside the Maryland Parkway hospital, with signs reading "Free the Placenta." Swanson says she'll contact the ACLU and Planned Parenthood to get the placenta back.
Ms. Swanson gave birth a month ago so there isn't a very good chance she could still ingest it, plus it was contaminated to begin with. I guess she's just fighting for the right of property. Interestingly, the topic of breast feeding in public is still controversial . I imagine the eating of the placenta will be even more controversy especially in light of the fact that cosmetic companies profit greatly from the use of the placenta. Why is it that women always had to fight for what has always been their rightful choice and still have to continue to do so?
A spokeswoman for Sunrise Hospital would not discuss the case, but says "placentas are kept in cold storage for three days and are disposed if there is no request to keep it."
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Post a CommentIt is contaminated after the hospital retained it due to the formaldehyde solution all placentas are put in once they reach the pathology department, as that is were they are all sent first, before determined if it can be sold or not. Which that money from any sale should go directly to the mother, especially if they are not going to even have the option to release the placenta to the mother! After all it is her's and her baby's! NOT the hospitals!
She wanted to homebirth but had to transfer to the hospital. They had no right to keep her placenta against her will.
It's not as thought she wanted to eat the placenta like a steak! She wanted to encapsulate it - encapsulated placenta looks just like any herbal supplement. What's idiotic in this is that we can take home our gall-stones - and people from OTHER cultures who request their placentas for religious reasons (Pacific Islanders, as an example) are given no hassle when they ask for theirs - perhaps Anne should have told them she'd wanted to bury her placenta so the "evil spirits" wouldn't get her child?! Sunrise Hospital sold placentas for medical research without the OK of the mothers - yet they refuse this.....it's obscene. Double standard!
This topic is somewhat gross, yet interesting. I would say if she wanted her placenta, next time she should give birth at home. And at the very least, if the hospital sold her placenta to a cosmetic company, renumeration is necessary since she placed a claim on her body tissue. How much does a placenta go for these days?
I've heard of this before, though I could never do it. Great article.
Great article--but quite stomach-churning!
Wow. I wonder in what way it was contaminated? This is a crazy story!