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Smearing The Placenta On Your Face

JeanneSager — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:41:19 +0000

Move over placenta loaf. Bye bye placenta pill. The new way to remain ultra close with the sac your baby lived off in utero is by smearing it on your face!

Well, sort of.

The placenta facials that are catching on are made up mostly of regular old face creams. There’s just one added ingredient: somebody else’s afterbirth. Urgh!

We’ve got a lot of mega fans around here on the healing powers of the placenta – they came out in droves to support the consumption of the post-natal pill made up of placenta pureed and served in capsule form.

But this isn’t your own placenta going on your face. It’s someone else’s. Or how about this side of the coin: would you want to send your placenta off to a factory to be made into a facial cream for other people’s day at the spa?

For the latter, I can’t say that it would bother me entirely. It’s outlasted its usefulness for me, so have it, ladies and gents.

Image: SuperFantastic via flickr

What Did Taye Diggs And Idina Do With The Placenta?

SunnyChanel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:17:30 +0000

Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel recently welcomed a bouncing baby boy. They opted for a natural childbirth with the aid of a doula. There were surprises and questions along the way in their birth journey – and the biggest one was what to do with the placenta!

On a recent visit to US chat show the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Diggs said, “It got rough at moments because you have no idea [about] the sounds your wife is going to make. There were moments when I had to excuse myself and just take a deep breath, but at the end of the day I was there and I was a cheerleader and we worked it out.”

The doula keep the ball rolling and reminded the couple what was going to happen next. “She basically told us everything that was going to happen before it was going to happen because regardless of all the books that you read, for me personally, when I’m in the moment, I forgot everything.” and get to the bit about the placenta!

But back to the placenta. After the baby was born the doula asked what they planned to do with the afterbirth. “She asked us if we wanted the placenta afterwards, because there are crazy nutrients,” Taye said. “During one of the classes, very casually, she said, ‘We can make the placenta into tablets you can take each day.’ And I look at my wife, ‘Are you crazy?’” And that’s exactly what Idina did! “My wife was serious, she wanted to be prepared on every front. I’ve been afraid to ask her [if she's been taking them].”

Yeah, I don’t think I want to know either.

Check out a video of the interview here.

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Video: How To Cook Your Placenta

Cole Gamble — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:30:03 +0000

In case you were hoping to see it, writer Joel Stein, who mocked his wife for placenta eating in Time magazine, documented the process of placenta gastronomy. So if you ever wanted a cooking class in making a tasty placenta, here it is:

Watch the video