Medicine is something that keeps evolving as each year goes by, and with every new illness, people manage to find a new cure as well. Without proper medicine, our world would be a much more difficult place to live in, but thankfully, we have hard-working individuals who spend many years of their lives trying to […]
Eating placenta might sound like the most hippie of hippie-dippie pursuits. But if an article in New York magazine is to be believed, eating your afterbirth (or placentophagia) is trés, trés chic. In Western hospitals, placenta has traditionally been disposed of alongside medical waste. Some women would ask to take their placenta home with them […]
It always amuses me when something concerning pregnancy, birth, or parenting pops up as a “trend.” Odds are, that “trend” has been in practice for ages, but most likely in non-urban, non-privileged, non-U.S. areas. Take, for example, the notion of using midwives to deliver babies over OB-GYNs. Only when it hit Brooklyn and the New York […]
Do you know what today is? Today is my birthday! And so far, the best present I have gotten is this news that–as it turns out, there are literally no health benefits to consuming your own placenta after giving birth. So all those placenta pills, and placenta smoothies and placenta pizza and placenta cannoli or […]
So what did you do with your placenta and umbilical cord after you gave birth?” I’m coming onto the blossoming revelation that this is a conversation that a lot of women have, these days. It’s true enough that there are a variety of cultures around the world that have had specific customs pertaining to placentae […]
