New mother eats her baby's placenta.

LA Times Blog ^ | April 9, 2009 | Elizabeth Snead

[OB1kNOb]

Sick. Just sick.

[Chode]

i've heard that also... usually the defective ones

[william clark]

I remember years ago seeing a Saturday Night Live book that included material the original cast hadn’t been allowed to actually do. One of them was a riff on this phenomenon; a spoof commercial for Placenta Helper.

[JSteff]

“dogs and cats do this”

Most animals do it because it is a breed in survival instinct. Eating it keeps other predators and scavengers from finding it and killing the baby.

So were does she live that she has those type of fears? Chicago, Detroit? Did she invite some friends over for the feast?

[mrs. a]

Isn’t this cannibalism? Eating a human “byproduct”?

I dunno, if my body expels something, there’s probably a reason why I shouldn’t put it back in...

[bgill]

Any one notice that in all the articles, there’s no father listed?

[nmh]

“But before you get really grossed out, you should know that animals eat their placentas after giving birth. “

Humans are NOT animals.

Thanks to evolution many believe humans ARE animals.

This just takes it one logical step further according to those that believe humans are animals.

[ladyjane]

Idiot. You’re not supposed to cook it!

[napscoordinator]

Aren’t we homosapians? I thought that was part of the animal family somehow. We were taught at school (private too boot) that we were “animals”. Maybe the teacher meant we were acting like animals. lol.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Polenta? What is the big deal many people eat polenta - they make Scallops and polenta, sausage and polenta..... huh? What? Placenta? Oh, nevermind.....

Emily Litella

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Dating myself here, but there was a time in the 70’s when this was not unheard of. They were usually the 60’s hippies entering motherhood; the ones that did not shave their legs nor under their arms. They lived on a Commune USA and they wanted to “be close to nature.”

[dfwgator]

I can’t remember if they actually ran that skit on SNL or if the network censors nixed it.

[KoRn]

Sick!!!!

[a real Sheila]

Did she serve it up with “some fava beans and a nice chianti?” (slurp, slurp, slurp)

[The_Victor]

I can’t remember if they actually ran that skit on SNL or if the network censors nixed it.

I remember seeing the skit, but everything I've read says that they pulled it. I don't know where else I would have seen the skit though.

[Damifino]

“But before you get really grossed out, you should know that animals eat their placentas after giving birth.“

HEY bandwagon-babe, I just heard that dogs eat their own schitt. Knock yourself out.

[MHGinTN]

The placenta is the remains of the first organ for survival that the new child makes. This feamle is eating her child’s first organ. Ah yes, ‘all the fine young cannibals’ the left spawns.

[Edizzl79]

I was hungry, now I think Ill wait till dinner...tomorrow.

[Ransomed]

“Think of all the nutrients that are passed through you’re colon. Maybe you should eat your poop too.”

Animals do that too, as well as eating their own offspring.

Freegards

[the long march]

Perfect