Well david you’re doing well.
I’ve done it also! it’s the best thing you can do! It’s only thing you have after the pregancy! and your baby! You are a good guy!

This is no more than my personal impressions on the article you recently posted, not a comment to be published.
Hope you will finally get the message as I’m having always getting error feed-back when posting a comment and didn’t find an e-mail adress link to send it.

You have published lately a photo of David Charvet shot on the parking lot of the hospital where his and Brooke Burke’s daughter was born the day before, opening a discussion on rituals related to birth and the placenta use, discussion which in other respects was very interesting, as were the additional researches on the subject you posted with.

I must say I don’t live in the US, so it might explain I have a different feeling about this photo, but my first reaction was the whole message it sends is: “INVASION OF PRIVACY” and it’s disturbing, just like the Flynetpictures video you mention, where the new mom can be seen in a wheel-chair, hiding behind her hair after she saw she was filmed.
And posting it, therefore assuming publicly concerns of theirs on the subject when it may be a question they’d want to be kept private, is meaningless, -unless you previously learnt, which I’m ready to admit, that this photo shoot was made on purpose for parents to let know later in the press about what they have planned around their daughter’s birth.

As an aside, like another poster noticed it, the inscription also seemed weird to me, but you confirming that it’s real, then insisting minutes later by putting it in bold letters, along with the title you gave to this discussion as a hot post: “Did you do anything with your placenta? David Charvet & Brooke Burke did!”, may confirm that you do know for sure.

I do appreciate your blog, it’s entertaining and very well written, with nice photos and I thought it could be helpful to know how your work is perceived.
Thanks for reading and sending back your comments.
Elea

You have published lately a photo of David Charvet shot on the parking lot of the hospital where his and Brooke Burke’s daughter was born the day before, opening a discussion on rituals related to birth and the placenta use, discussion which in other respects was very interesting, as were the additional researches on the subject you posted alongside.

I must say I don’t live in the US, so it might explain I have a different feeling about this photo, but my first reaction was the whole message it sends is: “INVASION OF PRIVACY” and it’s disturbing, just like the Flynetpictures video you mention, where the new mom can be seen in a wheel-chair, hiding behind her hair after she saw she was filmed.
And posting it, therefore assuming publicly concerns of theirs on the subject when it may be a question they’d want to be kept private, is meaningless, -unless you previously learnt, which I’m ready to admit, that this photo shoot was made on purpose for parents to let know later in the press about what they have planned around their daughter’s birth.

As an aside, like another poster noticed it, the inscription also seemed weird to me, but you confirming that it’s real, then insisting minutes later by putting it in bold letters, along with the title you gave to this discussion as a hot post: “Did you do anything with your placenta? David Charvet & Brooke Burke did!”, may confirm that you do know for sure: please don’t let me wondering about the genuineness of your work!

I do appreciate your blog, it’s entertaining and very well written, with nice photos but I needed to share my feelings.

No offense to anyone who does this kind of stuff, but doing ANYTHING with a placenta BESIDES discarding it for good truly disturbs me. Even burying it to help a plant grow freaks me out. And as for eating it or using it as an art supply…don’t even get me started! I don’t have children, heck, I’m not even married, but one thing is for sure: I do and always will despise saving placentas for any reason, for it is really disturbing to me. But no offense.

erin’s mom, LMAO!! Loved your response!!

I guess planting the placenta can be a nice thing to do, but eating it??? In ANY form (jerky or cooked or in capsule)??? NO WAY!! I am glad it nourished my babies for as long as it did, but I could never bring myself to eat it!!

I believe the animals eat the placenta to ward off any predators, they don’t leave any evidence of giving birth.

My midwife dried and ground my placenta and placed it in gel capsules for me to take during my first few postpardum weeks. The gel caps mask any taste, so it didn’t gross me out… They told me that it would help by body better deal with the change in hormones and ward off the baby blues.

I’ve got to say, I think the idea of eating your placenta grosses me out. And yes, I have a child. I guess I am just sort of old-fashioned and conservative when it comes to childbirth- all of these homebirths, unassisted births, etc…all of that stuff is just crazy to me. I think people are nuts when they say “Childbirth is not a medical procedure.” If there is an 8 pound human being coming out of my vagina, you’d better bet I want to be in a hospital while it happens! And by no means do I want to take home a bloody organ as a souvenir…my baby will be enough for me.

I live in New Zealand and it seems pretty common practice to take the placenta. It’s a Maori tradition to take it. I’m not Maori but American and I didn’t do this with my first baby. I too thought ‘gross’. With age and a harder birth, I felt it was right to keep the placenta. I was 9 days overdue and the fact that the placenta still kept my baby alive, was amazing to me. Two years later, we just planted it for Christmas with a gardenia tree on top. We won’t live here forever but this is where we have lived for 2 years and the house she has come to know as home.