Mom tells hospital: Gimme my placenta!
A Las Vegas mom has won the right to keep the placenta after her daughter's birth. Why did she want it? Well, she wanted to eat it to thwart off postpartem depression. There's no recipe that comes with the story folks. It just says if you let placenta get dry, grind it up to a powder form, and insert it into capsules, it's supposed to help. In the words of Rachael Ray: Yummo.
The hospital had refused to give the uterine lining to Swanson following the April 12 Caesarean birth of her daughter, with officials calling it contaminated biohazardous waste. The judge ordered the hospital not to destroy the placenta, which was frozen, and ordered that it be turned over to (Anne) Swanson within two weeks.Swanson, who was 30 when she gave birth, originally wanted to give her placenta to a friend to be dried, ground into a powder and packed into capsules. She said she now plans to dry, store and eventually bury the organ instead of eating it.
"I hope this brings about a better awareness about the benefits of placenta," she said, citing a theory that placental hormones can help control postpartum blues.