My squick is less over the teddy bear and more over the casual assumption that most right-minded eco-friendly women are going to eat it, rather than letting the hospital staff dispose of it along with all of the other bio-waste associated with giving birth.
Planting is the other option that's popular. I think my sis-in-law planted hers. I, on the other hand, asked to see mine so I could remember its face when I SAW IT IN HELL.
Ahem.
I had issues with my placenta, clearly. Fucking bed rest.
Oh god, I wish I hadn't eaten breakfast already.
Just dying for a nice slice of fried placenta and onions? I bet it tastes like liver. Mainly because it looks like liver.
::hates on Plei::
I don't remember seeing any of mine. I can't say that I mind.
It looked shockingly innocent for such a pain in my ass. All glossy and smooth.
The fucker.
Even my crunchiest home-birthing friend didn't eat her placenta, although she thought about it....
It looked shockingly innocent for such a pain in my ass.
I think I can see what the first problem was.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Oh, serious WORD. No, no, no, and in a word, NO. I'm with Aims-- "Thank you and off you go to the bio-hazard wastebin."
Even my crunchiest home-birthing friend didn't eat her placenta, although she thought about it....
If her placenta was crunchy, she has bigger problems than deciding whether she could finish a whole one.
Oh, serious WORD. No, no, no, and in a word, NO. I'm with Aims-- "Thank you and off you go to the bio-hazard wastebin."
And this is why it's so important to cut the umbilical cord.
Edit: Oh, look. Post 13,000. That's a slumbernut I can get behind.
Well, fuck. We had the first edition floating around our place for a long time (interestingly, it was my purchase, not Hec's), but it's gone. Either I packed it up so as not to damage Matilda's delicate little snowflake eyeballs or...
fuck me...
I sold it during one of our gotta-pay-the-fucking-bills Half Price Books purges.
I'm proud to have voted for Obama, I'm relieved every single damn day that he's our president, and after reading the committee's statement about his reversing US course on things like nuclear proliferation and climate change policy and negotiation/diplomacy I kinda sorta see what they were aiming at, but still...the Nobel? This early? With Guantanamo still open, investigations and prosecutions of the previous administration's human rights violators stalled out, and involvement in the morass of Afghanistan cranking up with no clear visible plan and no indication that it's going to go any better than it has for the past seven years? No.
And the likelihood of it giving Beck and Limbaugh and their ilk something new to rant about, and feeding into the craziness of the scary fringe that really needs no feeding at all, ever, is just making me queasy. I keep thinking about the news report a couple of weeks ago about the Secret Service confirming that he's already getting five or six times the serious death threats, daily, of any previous president, and this makes me want to cover my eyes and never open them again.
