January Jones

UPDATE: Mad Men actress January Jones has revealed she ate her own placenta after the birth of her baby Xander. She told People magazine:

‘I have a great doula who makes sure I’m eating well, with vitamins and teas and with placenta capsulation.’

“It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re only the only mammals who don’t ingest out own placentas,” she said. And she suggests all mums try the “natural booster” too…

Here’s a previous article we ran on eating placenta:

Yes, this is an actual placenta

After my son was born all I wanted to eat was sushi. Maybe it was because I had been cautioned against eating it while I was pregnant or maybe because it is full of er, mercury and that is what my body craved.  I like to think it was just that my taste buds like sushi rice and seaweed.

There were a few other things I was keen to eat – soft cheese, soft boiled eggs, actually anything that I could eat without feeling nauseous was high on my list  (I had spent a lot of my pregnancy throwing up.)  This could be ONE of the reasons I didn’t give a second’s thought to eating my placenta. Or was it my son’s placenta?

Turns out because he was born 10 weeks early and there were many complications it became the laboratory’s placenta and even though they packed it in the exact same type of container that I usually eat my cashew nut vegetable from, it was not destined for anyone’s plate. Just analysis.

It doesn’t always have to be this way though and more and more placentas are being sent home in take away containers. For consumption. Yes. I did say that. I understand the thought of chewing through a placenta can be quite off putting, especially for those of us who are not fans of eating organs in general but hey, they are making it much, much easier to swallow – there are in fact people who will create an easy to swallow pill using just the placenta and a few handy kitchen tools.

This from  The New York Magazine

Um, I wouldn’t want to try because I am a vegetarian. Does that count? Or maybe the fact that there is no real scientific evidence that the placenta is really that beneficial once it has done its intended job.

It’s a fad I wont be joining in. Even after watching this clip

Would you eat the placenta after you had given birth? Would having it in pill form make it easier to swallow?