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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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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (27 children)

You joke, but there are literally people who eat their own placenta. I know someone who did. Crystals and essential oils and energy healing and all that, you know. I don't talk about that kind of stuff with her because for some reason we just can't seem to find common ground lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (13 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 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.

[–] Kallioapina 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

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