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Just to warn you… reading this you’ll either feel slightly peckish or damn right nauseous.
At our 12 week scan, my partner and I chuckled over the idea of ‘eastern countries’ eating the placenta. Never did I actually believe we would.
It was all calm and relaxed, the operating lamp towered above me, the blue paper curtain was drawn and pinned up. The masked surgeon peered over the top with his smiling eyes and told me they were ready. My partner was gripping my hand so tight, I could hear beeps and feel tugging, then a cry. Well, a cough actually… the pre-term team joked from the other side of the curtain that my baby had just coughed up a chicken bone. I was in complete ecstacy. Before I knew it, I had been transfered to another bed cradling my beautiful new son and was being wheeled to recovery.
After a good 30 mins on the boob, lots of silent beaming smiles and a few random questions.. the midwife stated that my surgery was as text book as they can get. She revealed I only lost 100ml of blood, no complications, my vitals throughout where perfect, blah blah blah. Then she mentioned the placenta…….. ”oooo” my partner said. ” We forgot to ask”……
Yes we had. In the bliss of delivering our child we totally forgot to ask about the placenta. We agreed when I was 30 weeks pregnant and hours of searching the internet that we could keep and cook my placenta.
”Is it too late to have the placenta”? he asked shyly. ”Well she said. Its possible, why would you like it?”. My partner joked, ” I really fancy lasagne”. After she stopped giggling, she stated that she needed to fetch it out of the bin. YES, the BIN! Later she did explain it was my own bin, with only my waste etc.. She left, returning with a white sealed tub. I had to have a peak. It was the most alien thing I have ever seen. For all you ladies who have ever laid eyes upon there own placenta, it doesn’t exactly scream out ‘Thursday night dinner’.
That evening my partner took it home and it stood in our fridge till I returned home two days later.
”Pate”… my partner bellowed. It was 8am and I was feeding the bambino in bed. . . . ”Pate” I replied!. I clicked. ”Okay… yumm”!
That evening he got to work on the alien. It laid on the kitchen chopping board like a bag of mince. I just had to watch what he had planned for it (thankfully he is a chef). I was more amazed of what I had grown inside me then anything else. I didn’t watch the whole process, however I did notice it marinating in the fridge with garlic and rosemary while I hunted for the chocolate that evening.
We planned on eating half and burying half next to a willow tree. A tradition dating back thousand of years. However after reading more into it, we were told that we had to own the land/property as burying human tissues anywhere else is forbidden. It needed to be recorded on the property deeds incase of any forensic activity in the future. We don’t own a blimen willow tree, so planned to scoff it the whole thing. It is meant to heal after all.
The next morning, we enjoyed a nice cuppa followed by placenta pate on toasted crostini. Hands down, it was the most amazing pate I have ever eaten.
I have to say when the mum sent me this post for the blog I was enjoying a ham sandwich, I never ate much of it! Is this something you would have done?
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I’d have to say ‘hell no’ but each to their own right. Although the idea of paté is appealing right now. But im pregnant so can’t!! Grrrrr
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ha ha Vicky I have to say I am agreeing with you I was like oh no please you didn’t ha
Wow, we joked about it too, erm… I dunno if I would eat it, I’d prob have a bite if someone made one up (obv my own noone elses). I don’t think its disgusting xx
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I just could not actually eat it, I love the idea of bringing it home & maybe planting it under a special tree.
oh I am so sorry, agh, gak. I couldn’t even entertain the idea. Feeling ill here. I can’t even stand to look at the innards of cows or sheep or whatever. I can’t eat pate because it has ‘guts’ in it. I am sorry! I guess the tradition is fine, but oooooooooh
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ha ha Carol & I thought you were a women of the world, not your cup of tea then?
I didn’t even want to look at it, let alone eat it. My poor husband and mother were in charge of getting it into a bag and into the freezer before we eventually . . . hum . . . cough . . . got rid of it. Okay, it may or may not have gone into the garbage which I know is totally against the law but we had no idea what else to do with it . We had an unplanned home birth and the midwives apparently don’t do placenta disposal . . . who knew?!
But, to each their own and no judgement here.
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wow an unplanned home birth x I had a planned home birth with Cameron but the midwives took everything away for me lol
I joked about it with my OH, said we could whisk it up and have it in cocktails – i read a story in a magazine where a mother and her partner had “Placenta smoothies” it just doesn’t appeal to me, i am curious though and would prob give it a try after turning my nose away a few times.
don’t knock something until you have tried it – although i won’t touch black pudding…
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p.s just said out loud what i wrote, does not sound good. “i won’t even look at black pudding but i will try my own placenta”
yeahh OK.. ummmm maybe some chocolate instead??
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Id love to have the nerve to try it, I love trying new things, but I just dont think I could bring myself to do it, and I know my oh wouldnt as he is an incredibly fussy eater as it is!!! I think if someone was to take it, prepare it and present it to me then Id try it, but doing it myself and taking it home with me-I dont think so. x
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ummm not really something for me ha ha im a fussy eatter at the best of times i cant even eat meat if it has abit of red still in it ha ha and i cant even force chicken down when i see a feather left on the skin :/ so definately not for me ha ha x
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OMG!! My placenta was GROSS but i dont remember it looking THAT gross haha!! Id rather NOT eat it but ive heard that its very good for you and quite tasty YUCK!! Id rather sell it to fishermen hehe xxx
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well with my first my placenta hit the floor …they had taken the bottom of the bed off cus i had an episiotomy ….it hit the floor and blood went everywhere …so deffo wudnt eat tht from off a hospital floor ! …and with my little girl the sight of it nearly made me pass out …but each to there own i guess lol
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Ooooo not sure if i could do it! But supposed to be packed full of good stuff! Each to thier own! X
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really not something i could do but hey each to their own i guess xx
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think i would have to pass on eating it deffo not sumthing i could do
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Neala I thought you were a tough cookie lol
Oh no, I don’t know why but it makes me go all funny and shivery thinking about it. It reminds me of pig heart or something. I love pate tho, if no-one told me it was placenta I’m sure i would love it haha x
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Ermmm ok. Lol, that’s the strangest thing I’ve ever read :/ x
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I couldn’t do it but each to there own waste not want not haha
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All i can say ewwww no thnx lol
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I ate mine too – wish I’d thought to make a pate with it though. We fried it up with sausages and beans. Hubbie ate it too, more than me in fact. Have you heard of placenta encapsulation? It’s where they freeze dry your placenta and grind it into powder which you then take as a capsule.
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Oh my word lol no never heard of it, the capsule sounds like a rather easier option for me as the thought of eating it still isn’t tempting x
Personally I couldn’t do it. The thought of it makes me go bluergh! However I wouldn’t slate anyone for eating their own placenta. Its their own choice. Think i May just have been put off pate for life now though haha! x
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In many parts of the world the placenta is sacred and is either eaten or buried in a sacred place. Our first was born in NZ and there they wouldn’t dream of putting the placenta in the bin. We took it home and buried it under a feijoa tree. I’m always a bit sad about it ‘cos we no longer own that house/garden and literally as well as metaphorically a part of me is left behind there – we probably should have eaten it instead
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gosh i would definatly have 2 say no to that 1 lol…Each to there own but i dont like pate anyway lol x
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It made me feel quite sick, its not something I’d choose 2 do. But I cudnt help but keep reading! As many others said, each 2 their own. Altho pate has deffinatly been removed off my shopping list as of… Now!! xxx
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umm not for me thank you much!! doesnt look tasty sounds tasty and i imagine it isnt tasty (ofc my own opinion!) but good on the people who actually do eat it etc.. but no thanks xD xxxx
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ewwwww i could never eat placenta i dont even like the look of liver or anything like tht it makes me gag xx
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Ive got to admit i would deff try it, my last placenta was gritty as it had started to die, can you still eat it if its like that? x
my placenta looked really healthy and after i gave birth i did joke to my mum asking if we should take it home for dinner LOL, but dont think i could actually eat it, but each to their own!
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I feel sick now haha not for the faint hearted!x
ew dont think i could do that but glad it tasted nice and u enjoyed it. its really healthy too apparently lol xx
Each to their own and all that but no thank you x
You`re braver than me! Haha, x
urgh, iv heard of people doing this but technically your eating your own flesh, yakl!
my placenta looked really healthy
In many parts of the world the placenta is sacred and is either eaten or buried in a sacred place, my placenta looked really healthy
erm….i dont know what say, dont think i would go yours for tea lol, no but seriously its upto you what you eat but i dont like the idea xx
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I couldn’t and wouldn’t do it personally but each to their own and if you enjoyed it then even better x
Each to there own but I would never try this, it looks to yuck plus it would of just came out of mee…. Hell no! Xx