Women Sues for Her Placenta – To Eat!
May 10, 2007
A Las Vegas mother is battling a local hospital over the ownership of a placenta. Anne Swanson gave birth at Sunrise Hospital last month, and wants her placenta so she can ingest it for its nutrients. But Swanson says the hospital has told her the organ was contaminated, and she would have to go to court to get it back. Yesterday, Swanson and a group of other women protested outside the Maryland Parkway hospital, with signs reading “Free the Placenta.” A spokeswoman for Sunrise Hospital would not discuss the case, but says placentas are kept in cold storage for three days and are disposed if there is no request to keep it. Swanson says she’ll contact the ACLU and Planned Parenthood to get the placenta back. But because it is contaminated, she has no plans to turn it into pills for consumption. Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that the excess hormones in placentas can treat postpartum depression.
This is by far one of most disgusting things of heard of in a while. Misery loves company so I had to post it. BLAH!
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Stacy | May 12, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Okay that is quite possibly the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a long time. yuck!
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the Brit | May 23, 2007 at 11:31 am
The world gets stranger every day.
the Brit
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melody | June 5, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Hmmmm, unusual indeed.
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Diane | July 21, 2007 at 2:26 am
There is research by the top birth care perfessionals in the country that backs up the claim that eating the placenta can decrese post partum depression. There is a reason why animals eat their placenta.