Animals eat the placenta to prevent predators from smelling a potential meal of new mother, babies and afterbirth.

Women and babies dying of natural childbirth at astonishing rates is also natural.

Don’t be ashamed for one second. If we used the “other mammals do it” trope, as another poster said, we would eat the shit of our newborns. We would also cannibalize one another and kill each others children. So yeah, you’re doing fine.

The reason critters eat their placenta is that they don’t have trash cans. They eat it to eliminate the chance of it’s smell attracting predators. They don’t eat it for health benefits beyond not getting eaten.

First, I love that this is “filed to: PLACENTAS!”

It’s the same place where Paleo calories go.

“Magical placenta reservoir” is a good phrase.

I remember seeing the doctors pull the placenta, covered in meconium, from my wife after 33_Footsteps was born. I remember thinking, at the time, being in utter disbelief that anyone would want to eat that. And I’m not exactly shy about eating new things.

I’ve said this before, but obviously it needs saying again. Placentas act as a filter for the baby. A filter for bacteria, for substances that could harm a fetus, for basically a LOT of things that will not help your baby thrive.

In the wild, animals eat their placenta to basically “clean up the scene of the crime”. It’s not for the health benefits, it’s to get the smell out of there so predators won’t know that helpless baby <insert species here> have been born. People eating placenta because the animals do it is just so fucking stupid.

This is kind of a relief to me- my midwife insisted I take my placenta home and drink it in a smoothie the next day. I took it home, put it in the fridge, and could not bring myself to even look at it.

I’m like...........

Wait, people are still eating something that’s a disease barrier, among other things? Sweet zombie jesus, what the hell is with science ignorers?

Of course there is no evidence. Food goes through an acid bath in the stomach and gets broken down into the major macro and micro nutrients along with water. Human’s don’t have a special slow-release magical placenta reservoir to carry you through an invigorating pregnancy healing period. Jesus fuck. Get it together…

I have a bunch of friends who are cis women, and I’m friends with quite a few other trans women too. For me personally, unless I’m really emotionally frazzled or having some severe bodily/gender dysphoria on a given day, I find it comforting and meaningful - like ondiac said in their post - to be around other women…

I know Jezebel usually reports on sexual violence in India and all, but recently the country hit a milestone, making a transgender woman the Principal of a college, without even half the shitstorm it would have created in our country and a generally positive attitude from what I can gather. Isn’t it also the first…

Women's college announces it will admit women...maybe someday that won't be news.