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Many new moms choose to encapsulate the placenta to aid in breastmilk production and to ward off post partum depression.
Bear with me now. The recent NYMag feature The Placenta Cookbook is truly an excellent and informational read about how and why new mothers eat their own placenta. I must disclose that I have never desired to eat mine, but I do happen to still have a placenta in the freezer- it’s been almost three years and I just couldn’t decide what to do with it. Continue reading »
What were they thinking?
Perhaps it’s time to update the curriculum in nursing — and other medical — schools. Lesson (1): other people’s organs, detached or otherwise, are not public domain; and (2) Facebook is not a scholarly meeting ground.
Four nursing students have been expelled from their Kansas community college after they posed for pictures with a placenta and then posted them on Facebook. One of those students, Doyle Byrnes, has filed a complaint in the district court asking to be reinstated to her program before classes start up again in two weeks.
Long story short: she’s blaming the teachers. Continue reading »
A viral video of a school girl giving impromptu birth on a football field has been ripped off of You Tube for it’s shocking content. In the video, school kids flip out as a young woman pops a baby out on the 50 yard line, with graphic detail.
There are so many things wrong with the following essay on plotting revenge with your placenta, but none of them quite drown out the hysterical laughter you’ll experience while reading it.
Writer Johanna Stein — her essays have been published in the fabulous New York Times Motherlode blog — seeks revenge on her best friend for an incredibly gross reason, and then finds childbirth has suddenly given her two tiny miracles: a baby girl, and the path to ultimate revenge. Continue reading »
Move over placenta loaf. Bye bye placenta pill. The new way to remain ultra close with the sac your baby lived off is by smearing it on your face!
Well, sort of.
The placenta facials that are catching on are made up mostly of regular old face creams. There’s just one added ingredient: Continue reading »
Forget mashing up the placenta into loaf form or that creepy teddy bear. You can now have the little sac that kept baby alive in the form of “placenta pills.”
Thank Gawd for celebrities – otherwise I wouldn’t hear of these creepy, er, curative methods. Continue reading »
Placenta snacking isn’t for everyone. But still … who doesn’t get a little sentimental about a good and faithful placenta?
Designer Alex Green knows how you feel, so he put together a little DIY kit so that you and the baby can treasure your physical attachment for years to come. Continue reading »
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