Would you eat your own placenta?

[Nope]

As weird as it sounds, eating your newborn's placenta is actually a thing among some women who give birth at home.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hea...r-placenta

Home birth midwife Claudia Booker can convert your placenta into vitamin-sized pills by the time you leave the hospital after giving birth.​ She also can distill it into an alcohol-based solution​ for you to take in drop form, or give you a piece to blend into a smoothie. On occasion, moms will request to eat silver-dollar sized pieces of their placenta right after labor.

No, I would not eat my newborn's placenta because I don't see the need. During pregnancy, I took my prenatal vitamins and iron pills.

Daniel Roshan​, an OB-GYN at NYU Langone Medical Center's Rosh Maternal-Fetal Medicine, says he has no conflict with his patients wanting to take placenta pills, though he does warn them that there are no clinical trials or scientific research to back their effectiveness. Advocates of the practice like to point out that most mammals eat their placenta, but Roshan counters that mammals eat a lot of things humans do not.

My dog thinks that cat poop is the equivalent to caviar. When my son visits, we have to put our trashcan on the counter because my dog can not resist the allure of dirty diapers. I don't plan on copying my dog's gastronomical adventures anytime soon just because she is a mammal

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http://www.babycentre.co.uk/l1051310/how...acenta#/10

Because I love you guys and gals, the link above takes you to a site that shows you photos of a woman washing, steaming, baking and eating her placenta. YUM