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What are the consequences of not severing it? I imagine you'd have the weirdest bellybutton on earth if nothing else.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've heard of people getting placenta pills to deal with the anemia after birth. I don't plan on having kids and thus have never been interested enough to research it.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 9 months ago

Iron supplements also work πŸ˜‚

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The placenta is not pleasant to look at, so I can imagine pills make it more palatable. I don't think a lot of study has been done on the effects of eating placenta after birth, but it's technically a separate organ that belongs to the baby.

So no matter how you spin it, they're eating baby organs.

[–] godzillabacter@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Doesn't actually belong to the baby, it's a hybrid organ that contains DNA and tissue that comes from both the mother and the fetus.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

Pop that sucker into a blender and you don't have to worry about how it looks. Mmm Mmm placenta milkshake.

[–] Kallioapina@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Here's a relevant link to an 2000's Finnish tv travel/cooking show Madventures and their placenta dish. I think I'd rather take it in pill form.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15wqaGATHnA

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ive heard of people using the placenta pills to help reduce postpartum depression. Not sure if that works. But research has been done to show it reduces bleeding after birth if consumed immediately.

Terrible source but its late and im tired: "Postpartum hemorrhage has been controlled by using a small quarter-size piece of placenta placed in the mother’s cheek or chewed by the mother first and then held between her cheek and gum" https://www.midwiferytoday.com/mt-articles/the-power-of-placenta/

[–] Duranie 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, my critical thinking self wonders what kind of magic makes bleeding stop by putting a piece of meat in your cheek.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My money is on it being the elemental power of bullshit. It's likely the same ingredient that makes homeopathy actually 'do' anything: time i.e., it would have happened at that point regardless.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Bleeding stops when the uterus shrinks back down so the huge open wound left behind by the placenta becomes a small wound. Oxytocin makes that happen, and you get that by just holding your baby. I don't know how eating the placenta would contribute.

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

hormones? the body has many magic chemicals.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure it's the meat....I think it might be the chemicals in the meat. This isn't my hill to die on, but you're totally OK to stick to the modern Dr's advice if you hemorrhage after childbirth. I can't think anyone will ever forcefeed you placenta πŸ™ƒ

[–] SelfHigh5@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, surely there must be another way! No thank you! πŸ™ƒ

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Petocin injection will do it if memory serves.