Placenta Teddy Bear??

[Sean21]

Originally Posted by LoofahBoy

WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU?

I suppose being facetious(which I usually am) is a bit too much for you.

Originally posted by Ladiesman

People are so fucking weird. The placenta is a horrible bodily fluid sack that is expelled from the body. It's not a fucking teddy bear and it's not fucking LUNCH.

It wants your love. It's laboring for it.

[OrkKaptin]

Originally Posted by LoofahBoy

WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Turn in your Spacebattler card. You are no longer one of us.

I kid. Mostly. Actually, you're pretty much justified there.

Ah, who am I kidding. Dude, what the hell?

[Sean21]

Originally Posted by OrkKaptin

Turn in your Spacebattler card. You are no longer one of us.

I kid. Mostly. Actually, you're pretty much justified there.

Ah, who am I kidding. Dude, what the hell?

Do you typically have conversations with yourself on internet forums?

[Firethorn]

Originally Posted by Tuisto

and women are EATING their.... oh G-d...
I thought only dogs did that...

Originally Posted by Weyoun the Dancing Borg

No, lots of cultures around the world do it.

And probably because humans and dogs actually have a lot in common; MANY mammal mothers eat the placenta after giving birth. Cats, Cows, goats, just from a minor search. Heck: Wiki for Placentophagy. It's very, very, common.

In some of the dog rearing books with VERY explicit directions*, it's recommended to let her eat one or two, but not all - because all of them could give her the runs. Something about hormones from the placentas helping to start milk production.

Woman eating her/her baby's placenta: Nature
Placenta party: losing the reasoning. I might see this in a species that gives birth communally. None come immediately to mind.
This: Squick.

*Everything you need to know to become a dog midwife**
**You'd better hope the Bitch trusts you. They get very private and will try to avoid the rest of their 'pack' during birth.

[Es Arkajae]

Blech

Eating the placenta is fine if you're a dog, they also lick their own arsehole and eat shit too, but it strikes me as borderline cannibalism.

I thought doctors just liked to keep placentas for stem cell harvesting or some shit?, I could see that being useful. Just like I heard they used to use foreskins harvested from circumcisions for burn victims or something... don't know how accurate that one is.

[Cap'n Chryssalid]

Thank you Spacebattles. Thank you very much.

I knew I shouldn't have clicked that link...
(shudders)

[GunneySarge]

The Placenta Teddy Bear I bet can be used for Vodoo.

[Firethorn]

Originally Posted by Es Arkajae

I thought doctors just liked to keep placentas for stem cell harvesting or some shit?, I could see that being useful. Just like I heard they used to use foreskins harvested from circumcisions for burn victims or something... don't know how accurate that one is.

Never heard about the foreskins, but the stem cell harvesting is from the umbillical cord, not the placenta.

The placenta is supposed to have hormones that help with various post-birth concerns like pain, contracting the uterus back into shape, starting milk production, etc...

It's either take a few bites of the placenta or have the drug industry come up with a pill.

[Wolfius]

Originally Posted by Firethorn

The placenta is supposed to have hormones that help with various post-birth concerns like pain, contracting the uterus back into shape, starting milk production, etc...

It's either take a few bites of the placenta or have the drug industry come up with a pill.

The sad part is that most people would rather there be some pill loaded with synthetic hormones and random herbs or some other crap.

[Firethorn]

Originally Posted by Wolfius

The sad part is that most people would rather there be some pill loaded with synthetic hormones and random herbs or some other crap.

True. It's kinda like how they're using leeches again for some very specific medical conditions. These are medical leeches - grown in a sterile environment and such.

Meanwhile, they're busily trying to design a mechanical leech. It's difficult - part of the reason the leeches work is their saliva, which combines a anti-coagulant and a painkiller.

Estimated cost for the leech? Less than $5. Even less in facilities that use them frequently. Cost for the mechanical leech? Starts at > $100, without the drugs. Both are single use. The organic leeches still work better. They're just 'icky'. But then, I'd rather have the finger sown back on still work and not have a huge medical bill.

I support breast feeding(in normal situations) for the same reason. Superior nutrition at lower expense.

[Cyborg Stan]

Originally Posted by Wolfius

Wait, would that count as masturbation or incest?

I think the former : IIRC, it's formed out of cells from the embryo.

[Sean21]

Originally Posted by Wolfius

Wait, would that count as masturbation or incest?

Depends on where your thoughts are at.

[cypress_z]

Originally Posted by Jebe

Historically, the "real medicine" as you put it did more harm then good until recent decades,

Pedantic nitpick here; century. Not decades. Medicine has been real and effective since around the late 1800's/early 1900's. Since world war one at the very least, and we are almost at the point of that having happened a century ago.

[Jebe]

Originally Posted by cypress_z

Pedantic nitpick here; century. Not decades. Medicine has been real and effective since around the late 1800's/early 1900's. Since world war one at the very least, and we are almost at the point of that having happened a century ago.

Just out of curiosity, referring to what? Surgeons were starting to get their heads on straight by that point, I'll grant that. The powder to counteract gas gangrene took a lot longer, being developed if memory serves by that one German having witnessed the horrors of WW1 and the resulting infections. Lot of good chemicals developed by them right around WW2.

In terms of pharmaceuticals however on this side of the pond they were pushing petroleum, to infants, around then. More or less because cars had yet to take off, and Rockefeller had capacity with insufficient customers. Not that technically that industry ever stopped instead of evolving so it was producing the artificial food dyes, instead of straight up.

I seem to remember references to a approved mercury powder also being pushed on infants around that time, with results which have ultimately served to inspire the anti-vaccine crowd. Not something I spent a lot of time on though, so could be wrong on the particulars but I know there was some event like that back when.

Mandatory:
Autism!=mercury poisoning. What the studies show is that the Autistic tends to be more vulnerable to heavy metal poisoning, with several legitimate reasons up for consideration of why that is.

Vaccines are on the average valuable things. See the history Polio or Small Pox if you want a good example why. Obviously with the don't be an idiot about it caveat appended.

[blast flame]

As someone who has already revealed their disgust at the whole process of childbirth in the "Children: do you want any?" thread I think it is almost needless to say that this disgusts me.

[Rastamon]

Originally Posted by blast flame

As someone who has already revealed their disgust at the whole process of childbirth in the "Children: do you want any?" thread I think it is almost needless to say that this disgusts me.

Not as much as this?


An ad in Hong Kong markets beauty products made with human placenta.

[blast flame]

Originally Posted by Rastamon

Not as much as this?


An ad in Hong Kong markets beauty products made with human placenta.

I was already aware that the beauty industry was completely insane with little connection to reality so due to the lack of surprise that doesn't disgust me as much.

[Es Arkajae]

The most expensive perfume in the world is made from the regurgitated and ossified remains of giant squid beaks, vomited up by Sperm whales.... yeah.

[Extra Man]

Originally Posted by Es Arkajae

Just like I heard they used to use foreskins harvested from circumcisions for burn victims or something... don't know how accurate that one is.

Never heard that before. Imagine if something goes wrong and foreskin cells starts developing and soon you have a dick growing on your arm... or face.

[qygibo]

Oh boy, what kid wouldn't dream of being a part of the process to *really* making their own teddy bear? Fuck Build a Bear, this service should be called "I Growed My Bear Myself".




For the record, I haven't known of a single mother who would have relished the idea of playing with their placenta.. in fact, they usually just cart that away asap at the hospital where I had my little one.

[iBorg]

Well, I dunno. It's icky. But then when it's your own stuff it's usually less disgusting, kinda like how you enjoy pressing your own pimples and admiring the quantity of fluid that jets out but wouldn't do the same to everyone else.