My Husband Thought I Was C.razy When I Ate My Own Placenta
The act of eating the placenta after you give birth, called placentophagy, isn’t just something animals do. Human moms do it, too, including tribal women and glamorous celebrities. You may be wondering whether you should as well. You could dry it and put it in p.ills. You could stir-fry it with onions. You could even eat it raw in the delivery room.
I needed it for my placenta, which I was planning to eat – after giving birth to it.


I also mix a “raw placenta smoothie” with a remarkably ordinary-sounding berry, banana and juice smoothie, with just one extra ingredient: a sliver of placenta.

While none of this is uncommon after childbirth, advocates of placentophagy believe that consuming the placenta in some form can help replenish nutrients lost during childbirth.
Anecdotal benefits of ingesting the placenta may include fewer mood swings, and better milk production, as well as higher energy levels and quicker pospartum
hea-ling. Some suggest that placentophagy can also help new mothers bond with their babies.I did quite a lot of scientist before committing to this, both in terms of reading up about the benefits and downsides of placen.tophagy and speaking with various midwies about the process and any contraindications
My second baby weighed 4.7 kilos – nearly 2 lbs bigger than her older sister – and was a longer, tougher delivery than my first. It was the middle of a snowy, freezing January, which wasn’t doing me any favours in terms of my moods, either. So I was excited when my gorgeous purple frosted glass bottle of capsules arrived. My large baby me