Pass the placenta

[k4kyv]

The increasingly erratic behaviour of Tom Cruise has raised a few eyebrows in recent months, not least when the actor, albeit with tongue in cheek, suggested he would eat his newborn's placenta. However, this practice is common in come cultures, and placenta is, in fact, incredibly nutritious.

http://www.msn.co.uk/health/placenta/Default.asp?MSPSA=1

[n2nh]

I've had shark, octopus and jellyfish, but this is one I'll pass on thank you very much.:p

[k6pme]

I've seen them in the back of my ambulance before. No thanks. I think Mr. Cruise is losing it.

[kb2vxa]

What can you expect from a Scientologist?

[K6BTM]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ April 22 2006,06:22)]The increasingly erratic behaviour of Tom Cruise has raised a few eyebrows in recent months, not least when the actor, albeit with tongue in cheek, suggested he would eat his newborn's placenta.
Hummmmm... Lets see. Rare, or medium Rare ? Yummm. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC9ECI]

I think I'm going to hurl now.

[N6BOA]

This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,18:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
I've seen it. It isn't all that beautiful.

[N6BOA]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 22 2006,17:15)]Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,18:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
I've seen it. #It isn't all that beautiful.
Tom, I respectfully disagree...there is nothing more beautiful than the miracle of giving life...and nothing more abominating to this awesome marvel as this thread...

[KA4DPO]

I was going to say something but I'm afraid to now. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[N6BOA]

Go for it...it's a free country! I just gave my HO on the topic. You are certainly entitled to yours!

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Barb

[N6WK]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 23 2006,01:15)]Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,18:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
I've seen it. It isn't all that beautiful.
I agree. Wasn't the most Beautiful Thing I have seen.
The child, However, was Very Beautiful ! Both of them !!

73,
Gordon

[ve2nsm]

There are some good recipes here (http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm) and here. (http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/placentas/a/placenta.htm)

It's common practice in some northern european countries if I'm not mistaken.

Google it, it's not THAT strange.

[WA5KRP]

As a pharmacy student in Austin, I worked as a pharmacist intern at Brackenridge Hospital and routinely delivered meds to Labor and Delivery. #While there one day, a Mexican national (illegal alien in today's parlance) had just finished a difficult delivery and was still somewhat out of it when handed her new baby. #At the same moment, she heard the word "placenta" as the doc handled the after birth.

Thus was born, Placenta Gomez.



WA5KRP
Texas

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (WA5KRP @ April 21 2006,19:37)]Thus was born, Placenta Gomez.
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (ve2nsm @ April 21 2006,19:32)]There are some good recipes here (http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm) and here. (http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/placentas/a/placenta.htm)

It's common practice in some northern european countries if I'm not mistaken.

Google it, it's not THAT strange.
Mmmmmmm, lasagna! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KW4MW]

Growing up on a farm it was commonplace to see a cow deliver a calf and then turn around to eat the afterbirth. The local Vet explained that it contained some nutrients that the cow naturally knew were good for her.

Good for the cow, grossed me out though. I'll stick with conventional foods thank you.

[kc5bie]

Quote[/b] (WA5KRP @ April 22 2006,17:37)]At the same moment, she heard the word "placenta" as the doc handled the after birth.

Thus was born, Placenta Gomez.

WA5KRP
Texas
Similarly... the last words seen on the way to the delivery room by Mrs King, a mother to be, led to the name of the newborn: #Nosmo.

Give it a sec, it will sink in.

[W2ILP]

I thought that human placentas weren't much good for anything...but there are some Chinese medicine men who believe that the placenta's of rare red rhinoceroses are APHRODISIACS.
I think they fool the suckers who buy this folk lore by substituting common hippo heart valves,
which may work as placebos. #If you get low cost prescription insurance you might have to take the hippo valves as they are more generic than proprietary Viagra.

w2ilp (Ineffective #Levitating Placentas?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif)

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 21 2006,18:26)]Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 22 2006,17:15)]Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,18:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
I've seen it. #It isn't all that beautiful.
Tom, I respectfully disagree...there is nothing more beautiful than the miracle of giving life...and nothing more abominating to this awesome marvel as this thread...
Barb, I respectfully disagree and Tom, I respectfully agree..... I remember the floor coming up fast about 14 years ago, just shortly after my eyes rolled back in my head and my knees got wobbly.

*Edit* ~ Seems like I would have had enough sense to remember the same thing happened about nine years before that too, some of us never learn.

[N6BOA]

Quote[/b] (ku4my @ April 23 2006,19:53)]Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 21 2006,18:26)]Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 22 2006,17:15)]Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,18:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
I've seen it. #It isn't all that beautiful.
Tom, I respectfully disagree...there is nothing more beautiful than the miracle of giving life...and nothing more abominating to this awesome marvel as this thread...
Barb, I respectfully disagree and Tom, I respectfully agree..... I remember the floor coming up fast about 14 years ago, just shortly after my eyes rolled back in my head and my knees got wobbly.

*Edit* ~ Seems like I would have had enough sense to remember the same thing happened about nine years before that too, some of us never learn.
Well, there ya have it.

[wv6z]

Sorry Barb....... gotstuh remember, guys can't handle stuff like dat. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[KC9ECI]

Didn't they ever tell your to never look it in the eye Tom?

[N6BOA]

Quote[/b] (ku4my @ April 23 2006,20:04)]Sorry Barb....... gotstuh remember, guys can't handle stuff like dat. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
No worries Tom...I guess being a science teacher makes it all easier for me, as well as being female. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 22 2006,21:07)]Didn't they ever tell your to never look it in the eye Tom?
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Ummmmmm..... never mind. Barb..... I'm sure it does make it easier.... I was all prepared for the miracle..... TWICE..... but fainting seemed like the right thing to do at the time. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[N6BOA]

Quote[/b] (ku4my @ April 23 2006,20:58)]Quote[/b] (KC9ECI @ April 22 2006,21:07)]Didn't they ever tell your to never look it in the eye Tom?
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #Ummmmmm..... never mind. Barb..... I'm sure it does make it easier.... I was all prepared for the miracle..... TWICE..... but fainting seemed like the right thing to do at the time. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
You're killing me! LMAO!!!
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[W2ILP]

Hmmmm...
Placenta Gomez?
She might be more placenta than Hernia Gonzales.

w2ilp (Internally Labeled Placenta) http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (N6BOA @ April 22 2006,19:45)]This thread: so much for the sanctity and beauty of child birth...
Any husband (or for that matter man), who has seen this is a very brave person. I personally wouldn't want to. Had a woman go into labor on my job once and I stayed with her while the call for an ambulance went out. But was I relieved when the paramedics showed up. I have friends that are EMTs and they have my greatest respect.

Tombo needs some of that professional help he scoffs at.

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (n2nh @ April 23 2006,04:51)]Tombo needs some of that professional help he scoffs at.
Which one of US? Oh hell, it doesn't matter.... we both do! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[k4lem]

It does take a lot to gross me out, but this thread does. Cats eat the after-birth and dogs too. Humans? Ugh

This is a placenta.. eat hardy.



http://i3.tinypic.com/wb9vfo.jpg

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (ku4my @ April 24 2006,09:47)]Quote[/b] (n2nh @ April 23 2006,04:51)]Tombo needs some of that professional help he scoffs at.
Which one of US? Oh hell, it doesn't matter.... we both do! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
ROTFL! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif The clueless Scientologist one. Brooke may be doing analysis, but Tombo is the one that really needs it.

[kc7jty]

My x wife kept the freezer full of those things. We never ate one though, they were used in her childbirth classes. Looked a lot like the thing that jumped out of the egg in the original Alien movie.

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (kc7jty @ April 24 2006,10:43)]My x wife kept the freezer full of those things. We never ate one though, they were used in her childbirth classes. Looked a lot like the thing that jumped out of the egg in the original Alien movie.
My wife taught childbirth classes for 15 years. I have accumulated enough disturbing mental imagery of childbirth to send three normal guys into therapy. Fortunately, I am not normal.

BTW, the forum seems better when you post regularly. Now if only K6BBC was in here a little more often, then the World would seem on track again. It is difficult to maintain the correct levels of acerbic wit whithout you guys.

[KC9ECI]

Quote[/b] (k4lem @ April 24 2006,08:56)]It does take a lot to gross me out, but this thread does. Cats eat the after-birth and dogs too. Humans? Ugh

This is a placenta.. eat hardy.



http://i3.tinypic.com/wb9vfo.jpg
I need a new keybord now.

[KC7YRA]

Boy I jumped into this thread WAY TO LATE!!! However I must say that in my professional (paramedic) opinion, childbirth is just about as beautiful and natural as the emptying of ones intestines. Perfectly natural and necessary to someones survival, yet not what I want to take pictures of and share with the family.

Now once the child is cleaned and the floor mopped (not deroggatory, literally the ambulance floor gets mopped) I am more than awed by the little creation. But before that. ECK!!!

[kc5bie]

Quote[/b] (k4lem @ April 24 2006,05:56)]It does take a lot to gross me out, but this thread does. Cats eat the after-birth and dogs too. Humans? Ugh

This is a placenta.. eat hardy.



http://i3.tinypic.com/wb9vfo.jpg
This placenta is inside out of course, which usually happens during almost every normal vaginal delivery. #To see the really gross part, you'd have to re-form or re-invert the fetal membranes, the sac the baby lives in and look at the "meat" of the placenta. #Part of the umbilical cord is seen at 2 o'clock. #What you're seeing in this picture is analagous to a popped water balloon stretched over a steak. #After delivery, the provider is supposed to look at the meat porition of the placenta to confirm it's all there (lest you leave some inside resulting in post partum bleeding).

[kc7jty]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ April 23 2006,12:04)]BTW, the forum seems better when you post regularly. #
You'd better watch it....many will probably disagree. The site was down yesterday when I tried to log on and I've been on the road quite a bit over the past two weeks. Will be headed to PA for 2 weeks in early May, and will be quite busy there chasing too many of life's pleasures to be on line much.

BTW: Both my daughters were born at home. It was a very pleasant experience. I got to put them into the warm water bath just after they descended the chute.