placenta three ways
hometown girl and i met last night in union square and caught up on a few things – i discussed space docking and she placenta recipes -- please read the warning at the top of this link – you know what you will be reading about so don't do it if you don't think you can handle it -- but you REALLY should.
i guess i’ve heard of eating a placenta after birth – but when hometown girl was telling me about it i kept imagining people keeping placenta as a staple in their homes ... honey would you please pass me the dried placenta in the cabinet – it’s behind the fresh pepper.
the following are a couple of my favorite parts:
Making Placenta Prints
This may appeal to some of you who enjoy doing artistic endeavors. Before the birth, pick up a few sheets of nice quality art paper. This can be watercolor paper, or some of the really unique specialty papers found in an art supply store. After the birth, take the fresh placenta and lay it out on the paper. You can make the prints with the blood that covers it, or wipe it off and put ink or paint on it first. To get the best prints, make sure there isn't too much or too little fluid for the print. Many parents have found this to be a fun activity as well as giving them a very unique, artistic keepsake of their pregnancy.
Membrane Art
As a student midwife I saw a beautiful "picture" up at a woman's house. It looked like an image of an angel. It was in fact the caul. Their last baby had been born with the membranes intact and the mother asked a friend to put the membranes onto a sheet of paper. Ta Da!! It really was lovely!
imagine asking your dear friend to gather your freshly passed placenta membranes and hanging them on a sheet of paper for you ... well i can’t. but i could imagine a friend asking me to do it and me having a good time.
Placenta Roast:
All "food" should be properly cleaned prior to cooking, and all "food" should be properly cooked prior to eating.
This is a good recipe for placenta, which should NOT go to waste:
and lastly
Many people freeze their placentas ...
who are these many? i am very intrigued. do you get a little gift bag and container for placenta at the hospital?
what really gets me about the recipes is not the fact that they call for placenta or that one of them gives this cooking tip: Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes. -- but what gets me is that they specifically call for fresh placenta! would some placenta hungry person really try to use a week old placenta?
i've never really been around a placenta (actually a cow placenta once -- hey i just realized they do not say human placenta -- can you use any animal placenta?) but i imagine it gets kind of smelly ... ick.
i don't know about you all, but if i had a ready supply of placenta i wouldn't be grinding it up to add to my meatloaf or lasagna. i'd be blending that shit up to make me a nice facial. nothing says youth like a fresh placenta facial. just ask j.lo.
*davis mcdavis sent this in -- a placenta feast.
i guess i’ve heard of eating a placenta after birth – but when hometown girl was telling me about it i kept imagining people keeping placenta as a staple in their homes ... honey would you please pass me the dried placenta in the cabinet – it’s behind the fresh pepper.
the following are a couple of my favorite parts:
Making Placenta Prints
This may appeal to some of you who enjoy doing artistic endeavors. Before the birth, pick up a few sheets of nice quality art paper. This can be watercolor paper, or some of the really unique specialty papers found in an art supply store. After the birth, take the fresh placenta and lay it out on the paper. You can make the prints with the blood that covers it, or wipe it off and put ink or paint on it first. To get the best prints, make sure there isn't too much or too little fluid for the print. Many parents have found this to be a fun activity as well as giving them a very unique, artistic keepsake of their pregnancy.
Membrane Art
As a student midwife I saw a beautiful "picture" up at a woman's house. It looked like an image of an angel. It was in fact the caul. Their last baby had been born with the membranes intact and the mother asked a friend to put the membranes onto a sheet of paper. Ta Da!! It really was lovely!
imagine asking your dear friend to gather your freshly passed placenta membranes and hanging them on a sheet of paper for you ... well i can’t. but i could imagine a friend asking me to do it and me having a good time.
Placenta Roast:
All "food" should be properly cleaned prior to cooking, and all "food" should be properly cooked prior to eating.
This is a good recipe for placenta, which should NOT go to waste:
and lastly
Many people freeze their placentas ...
who are these many? i am very intrigued. do you get a little gift bag and container for placenta at the hospital?
what really gets me about the recipes is not the fact that they call for placenta or that one of them gives this cooking tip: Work on the basis that each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. To prepare a placenta, cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes. -- but what gets me is that they specifically call for fresh placenta! would some placenta hungry person really try to use a week old placenta?
i've never really been around a placenta (actually a cow placenta once -- hey i just realized they do not say human placenta -- can you use any animal placenta?) but i imagine it gets kind of smelly ... ick.
i don't know about you all, but if i had a ready supply of placenta i wouldn't be grinding it up to add to my meatloaf or lasagna. i'd be blending that shit up to make me a nice facial. nothing says youth like a fresh placenta facial. just ask j.lo.
*davis mcdavis sent this in -- a placenta feast.
posted by clovis at 9:22 AM
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From the Geocities link, on how to make "placenta medicine":
"Raven noted that any energy you have while
working with the placenta will be absorbed into the medicine, so please keep yourself centered." Whatever, lady! And remember to forget to shave under your armpits. Damn hippies.
You know what else is a great idea? Every time I take a dump, I do it on a piece of paper and frame it - it looks just like a pretty brown log and reminds me of the precious trees given to us by the Earth Mother, the Goddess Gaia, and it also makes a great convsersation piece! I don't know what it is, but every time someone comes into our house and notices the framed filth we have on our wall, they never fail to comment on it. I also have a sculpture I've made out of some used tissues from this one time I had a cold and a bloody nose in the same week. It's beautiful! It looks just like an angel...an angel made out of snot and blood.
Why, when it comes to art, who needs paint or brushes when you can just play around with your bodily wastes?!?!
On the opposite end of the eating-the-placenta hippy crowd, you should look into the never-cut-the-cord "lotus birth" hippy crowd.
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