Posts Tagged ‘placentophagy’
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Vegetarian and eating your placenta? What you need to know
The placenta is a wonderful organ that plays an essential part in nourishing a baby before birth. Can a placenta be just as useful to mothers, after the baby has finished using it? Placentophagy, as consuming ones own placenta is also called, has many benefits. It can stop post-partum hemorrhage, something which is particularly useful for those having an unassisted homebirth, and contains many hormones that replenish the mother’s body, increase her energy levels and make her feel great. But what if you are vegetarian, and the thought of consuming any kind of meat, even your own, grosses you out? Are there any ways to make eating your placenta more palatable?
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Las Vegas mother wins placenta battle
Every pregnant woman grows a placenta to sustain and nourish their unborn baby for the whole duration of pregnancy. Once the baby no longer needs it, after birth, who does it belong to? This seems a weird question to be asking. Is it not obvious that your internal organs should belong to, well, you? Not to one Las Vegas hospital, the Sunrise Hospital, who refused to let a post-partum mom take her placenta home to encapsulate it and consume it. Ann Swanson had to sue Sunrise Hospital to get her placenta back, and although she won, it took her three months – too long to still be able to eat her placenta.
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Eating your placenta
Many mammals eat their placentas, and with good reason. Eating your placenta helps your uterus shrink to its pre-pregnancy size. It contains oxytocin, also known as the “love hormone”, which reduces stress and makes you feel great. What’s more, placentophagy (the technical term for eating your placenta) can play a key role in preventing and stopping post-partum hemorrhage.
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