Woman Wins Custody Of Her Placenta
Posted by Slobokan @ 21:53 · 171 words · print
Some things are better left unsaid, don't you think?
A woman has won a court fight to keep the placenta after her daughter's birth. She had planned to grind it up and ingest it as a way to fight postpartum depression, but now plans to bury it.
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The hospital had refused to give the uterine lining to Swanson following the April 12 Caesarean birth of her daughter, with officials calling it contaminated biohazardous waste. The judge ordered the hospital not to destroy the placenta, which was frozen, and ordered that it be turned over to Swanson within two weeks.
Swanson, who was 30 when she gave birth, originally wanted to give her placenta to a friend to be dried, ground into a powder and packed into capsules. She said she now plans to dry, store and eventually bury the organ instead of eating it.
I have one word for this… Blech!
Oh sure, there is a theory that placental hormones can help control postpartum depression, but blech! Just blech!
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Posted by Hairy Carrot
July 23, 2007 @ 13:31
Perhaps she'd like to keep her stool samples as well.
Remind me not to eat any frozen Swanson dinners anytime soon, either.