AFTERBIRTH FOR DINNER. YES I AM DISTURBED.
As I was laying in bed this morning, my husband was drinking his morning coffee, eating his weekday bowl of cereal and reading the grossest thing under the sun! What's worse is that before leaving our home for a week of out of town business he decides to share this disgusting article with me as I enjoy having the bed to myself!
SO............ Here goes I'm now passing the grossness on to you all!
The July 13th, 2009 issue of Time Magazine as seen here, contains possibly the nastiest thing I have ever heard of! Maybe this is not news to all of you, but it is to me. I consider myself fairly forward thinking and moving, I am totally okay with most "hip" ideas even if they are too hip for me, I figure they are bound to sit right with someone out there! But this is just weird! So weird in fact that when I Goggled it guess who's name came up? No, not Michael Jackson (good guess though) go with your second strangest person... Tom Cruise!
Here goes- the author of the article Joel Stein explains how his wife Cassandra fills him in on the fact that she will be keeping her placenta, placing it on ice, having it delivered to her house and later cooked up and turned into pills! I am SOOOO not kidding, this is true, it's in Time Magazine folks, not The Enquirer, and it's being said by a reputable journalist that writes weekly for this well respected publication!
For $275 Joel and his wife have a woman in their home cooking up the placenta, freeze drying it and then turning it into capsules that are said to ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply! He goes on to say that "placenta lady" got into cooking placenta after taking a Chinese medicine course and has "prepared" two dozen placentas this year! Some of the 120 pills that come of this "placenta lady" states could even be frozen and used by Cassandra during menopause!
The next day "placenta lady" pulls off a beautiful placenta presentation for the new parents complete with a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD full of lullabies and a satin pouch containing a part of their son's umbilical cord!
I'm ALL for curbing postpartum depression, even increasing milk supply, and of course warding off the horrors of menopause! Yikes, I guess I am not hip enough to do it this way however; and am now SO thankful that my fourth and final child comes to me through the beauty of adoption and not with a placenta attached that I might get talked into eating!! GROSS!!
SO............ Here goes I'm now passing the grossness on to you all!
The July 13th, 2009 issue of Time Magazine as seen here, contains possibly the nastiest thing I have ever heard of! Maybe this is not news to all of you, but it is to me. I consider myself fairly forward thinking and moving, I am totally okay with most "hip" ideas even if they are too hip for me, I figure they are bound to sit right with someone out there! But this is just weird! So weird in fact that when I Goggled it guess who's name came up? No, not Michael Jackson (good guess though) go with your second strangest person... Tom Cruise!
Here goes- the author of the article Joel Stein explains how his wife Cassandra fills him in on the fact that she will be keeping her placenta, placing it on ice, having it delivered to her house and later cooked up and turned into pills! I am SOOOO not kidding, this is true, it's in Time Magazine folks, not The Enquirer, and it's being said by a reputable journalist that writes weekly for this well respected publication!
For $275 Joel and his wife have a woman in their home cooking up the placenta, freeze drying it and then turning it into capsules that are said to ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply! He goes on to say that "placenta lady" got into cooking placenta after taking a Chinese medicine course and has "prepared" two dozen placentas this year! Some of the 120 pills that come of this "placenta lady" states could even be frozen and used by Cassandra during menopause!
The next day "placenta lady" pulls off a beautiful placenta presentation for the new parents complete with a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD full of lullabies and a satin pouch containing a part of their son's umbilical cord!
I'm ALL for curbing postpartum depression, even increasing milk supply, and of course warding off the horrors of menopause! Yikes, I guess I am not hip enough to do it this way however; and am now SO thankful that my fourth and final child comes to me through the beauty of adoption and not with a placenta attached that I might get talked into eating!! GROSS!!
I'll bet placenta meat is pretty tender...
ReplyDeleteOK you forward thinking person....wrap your brain around how not gross this is. Animals eat their placentas. It's natural. It's full of hormones that stop the uterus from bleeding and can prevent postpartum hemmoraghe. It's actually a great Idea to freeze dry it and take it just as you would a prenatal vitamin. Our bodies are so amazing. We make an organ to support a life and then we expel it. It's a shame we discard it with not even a second glance. OK, enough from Kendra the doula and student midwife.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Okay, Miss doula lady you got me! Even though I know you are technically right and you've brought me big insight into this arena that I've chosen to not think a whole lot about prior to this... I AM STILL GROSSED OUT!
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