Insane Woman Invents Way For Moms To Eat Their Afterbirth

[c7_assassin]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/placenta-pills-become-business-saskatoon-woman-005400669.html

Marlese Assman, already renowned for having the world's most unfortunate name, is offering new mothers a way to swallow their own afterbirth. She claims this will help with post-partum symptom, presumably by duplicating the intense nausea, discomfort, and feelings of undesirability that are typically associated with pregnancy.

Assman was busy this week inserting blue gel capsules into a special holder and filling them with a brownish powder. The powder is placenta that has been steamed, dehydrated and ground up. The client ordering the capsules provides the placenta for Assman to process.

Eating the actual tissue is done in some parts of the world. But in Regina, Holly Andris found capsules a more palatable way to ingest it. She believes the compounds contained in placenta help ease post-partum symptoms.

"It's definitely a concept that's a little too far out there for some people," she said. "I really like to try different things. It just really felt like something really good that I could do for myself." Proponents say ingesting placenta can also boost energy, promote healing, fight insomnia and stimulate breast milk production.

Assman first heard about placenta capsules on a pregnancy podcast. "Initially there was a 'What?' or an 'Ick!' factor," she said, but she was intrigued. "It was enough to make me look into it further."

Soon other mothers were calling her to ask about it. "I thought, 'What better way to help new moms?'" she said. Now her cottage industry is generating revenue of a few hundred dollars a month. Some in the medical community say there's no proof the product is effective. Assman concedes the evidence of any therapeutic qualities is, so far, anecdotal. But she's optimistic a study underway in Nevada will provide more solid evidence.

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"Would my head-voices lie to you? Bkaww! Now I'm a chicken!"​

 

[TropicThunder]

She's not insane, nor is she the first woman to come up with something like this.

 

[Persephone]

It is still very common in several countries around the world to eat the afterbirth. Hell, in some countries people will remove the heart, brain, and organs from a deceased loved one, eat them, and cremate the body. Things like this boggle our more Westernized POV...but they do occur. Every culture is different, but all the differences is what keeps the world an interesting place.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

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Afterbirth: The Soup That Eats Like A Meal

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Placenta prima vera now on special at Olive Garden.......This is of course cuisine discrimination! 😉

 

[Snail Shell]

The problem of course is hunting the damn thing afterwards. With all those legs, the afterbirth can be very fast and very agile, to say nothing of finding small, dark places to hide. Then of course, cooking it is another issue. We eat with our eyes and it's not a pleasant sight to begin with.

I tell you, I really don't like placentapedes. 😛

SS

 

[Bohemianne]

CATS generally practice this by instinct. Now I wonder if Catwoman will do this too someday, because I could still remember her saying "Life's a b!tch, and so am I..." (She's single, right??) 😱

 

[TickleMyFancy]

Not something I would do, but hey, every culture is different.

But...ew.

 

[Aimee]

I don't understand why she is even being judged? To each their own...

 

[BellaRisa]

She's not insane, nor is she the first woman to come up with something like this.

Thank you. Women have been doing this for a long, long time, and many swear by the benefits:

http://offbeatmama.com/2009/12/eating-placenta

http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/placentas/a/placenta.htm