People reports January Jones eating own placenta as vitamin
Actress January Jones, AKA Betty Draper on “Mad Men,” returned to work just seven weeks after the birth of her son and was having a hard time keeping up her energy. So she started eating her own placenta to help, according to People magazine.
“Jones explained that her doula — otherwise known as a labor coach — prescribed her a remedy to help her get through the long hours.”
“ ‘I have a great doula who makes sure I’m eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation,” she told the magazine, explaining that the process involves the placenta getting “dehydrated and made into vitamins.’ ”
“ ‘It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas,’ she insisted. ‘It’s not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!’ ”
I guess I have heard of people eating placentas but what I have heard more of is people planting the placenta in their yards by a tree for the baby or keeping it in their freezers. I get that it would fertilize the tree. I don’t why they’re keeping it in the freezer.
So what do you think: Would you eat your own placenta? What about dehydrated and in the form of a vitamin? Have you heard of people eating their placentas? What have you heard of people doing with their placentas? What did you do with yours?
How did you keep your energy up after having the baby?
(Sorry for a second “Mad Men” mention but this is really about eating the placenta and not the show.)
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Aubrey
March 27th, 2012
3:35 pm
I’m shocked at how uninformed most of the posters are. Your cortisol levels peak at up to six times their normal level during childbirth and wash out right after birth. Much of your happy hormones are contained inside your placenta. I’m glad many of you put your big girl pants on, had crying fits, and moved on but why should you if you don’t have to? I’m not suggesting you make spaghetti and placenta meatballs but placenta encapsulation really takes the ick factor out of it. You are just taking a pill. A pill that is naturally designed to chemically rebalance you. Why wouldn’t you do it?
JATL
March 27th, 2012
3:39 pm
@everyone (almost) -thanks for the giggles! Most of y’all made me laugh and laugh!
joe in tucker
March 27th, 2012
3:40 pm
zippity do dah, zippity day,my oh my another dingbat today….
not SO weird
March 27th, 2012
3:47 pm
We weren’t inclined to eat the placenta any more than we wanted an afterbirth smoothie. But we did save the placenta that accompanied our daughter through her 10 weeks in utero. We wanted to plant it alongside a tree of her choosing, when she got old enough to choose one. That’s why ours was in the freezer for as long as it was! Funny story: it almost got mistaken for a venison roast and put into the crock pot! Can you imagine?
Wilburs BBQ
March 27th, 2012
3:52 pm
This is NOT going to be one of the new items on my bbq menu!!!!!!
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March 27th, 2012
3:54 pm
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jarvis
March 27th, 2012
3:54 pm
I’ve chewed on a nipple or two.
Enlightened
March 27th, 2012
4:01 pm
The Western approach to medicine and health has led to rampant heart disease, cancer, gastrointestinal problems, etc. Seems like some folk remedies and alternative medical approaches are worth investigating rather than dismissing as crazy. I mean just look at what is done to a patient with cancer – massive doses of toxic chemicals that nearly kill the patient and cause permanent damage to most organ systems along with ionizing radiation that is positively known to cause cancer. All this because radical diet changes and immune boosting therapies are considered “non-mainstream” yet have a long history of curing cancer and restoring sound health. Go figure.
Good for January for having the courage to expose folks to potentially beneficial alternatives to traditional medicine.
JMS
March 27th, 2012
4:02 pm
TMI
Yall going to get me fired
March 27th, 2012
4:08 pm
For laughing so hard at the responses at work!
Ok Enlightened, we get it. But still… it’s freakin’ PLACENTA!!
They don’t sell Flintstone chewables in Hollywood?
Irene
March 27th, 2012
4:08 pm
I had my placenta capsulized to assist with avoiding post pardem depression and increase energy. It worked. It’s technically weird because it is an uncommon practice amongst Americans, but if you do a little research, you may find that it is a very natural and wise practice.
jarvis
March 27th, 2012
4:10 pm
I agree with Enlightened. There are 22 countries in the world with an average life expectancy less than 55. Amazingly none of them are in the West.
I’m very surprised because while they don’t have much….all 22 have easy access to placenta.
Get a grip.
nique
March 27th, 2012
4:14 pm
Hmmm….seems like there might be other ways to get those nutrients. Like from non-placenta-ized vitamin supplements.
Jen
March 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
I encapsulated mine with my second child. The difference in the immediate postpartum time between the birth where I did encapsulate and the one were I didn’t was night and day. One I was exhausted, moody, depressed, and anemic, the other I didn’t suck it up and go about my daily business because there was nothing to “suck up”. I felt great. I was just blissfully in love with my new baby and and feeling physically great. I had a hemorrhage after both births and took around 6 months to recover on prescription iron supplements and about a month with the placenta capsules. I don’t talk about it much because I know it’s really weird to most people, but I did it and it worked for me.
Jen
March 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
Please excuse the many typos. Above mentioned second child was in my lap, “helping” me type.
Cindy Lu
March 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
Thanks for the laughs…. Hurrah for Hollywood!!!!
Apparently, this is no place for all you “Mary Poppins”, “Dorothy the Good Witch”, and Oprah lovers. Bwhahahahahaha
Will Jones
March 27th, 2012
5:09 pm
As Noble Jones’ mother was “Januarye Jones,” and he not only the captain and ship’s carpenter of the Georgia colony-founding “Anne” but also the commander of the detachment from Ft. Frederica, on St. Simons, which prevented Rome’s military invasion for conquest of Georgia at Bloody Marsh (replaced now with their promotion of illegal immigration our honorable governor is fighting, thank G-d), carrying the unusual name “January,” the placenta-eating actress is likely of Georgia’s finest blood and thereby worthy of consideration by all good and decent Georgians, who staying true to their noble heritage hold the key to a restored America, the New Israel.
Our bodies are a miracle from G-d. Each of us must work out his or her own salvation. If she is staying healthy and raising her gift from G-d righteously and healthfully in Hollywood Babylon, more power to her.
MeaneyMouse
March 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
MOMMMMMM MAY WE HAVE MORE PLACENTA PLEASE!!
Trayvons Mom
March 27th, 2012
5:14 pm
I just want to say that I have keeps Trayvons (copyrighted) placenta and will be selling it on ebay this afternoon!
Sam
March 27th, 2012
6:01 pm
“We’re also the only mammals who can make contracts…………..”
And the only ones who wear contacts.
Brennan Huff
March 27th, 2012
6:03 pm
I once had a belly full of white dog crap. But not by choice.
DebDoes
March 27th, 2012
6:39 pm
Yes, I know someone who has it in vitamin form now; yes, breast milk is good for skin irritations…..there are a lot of immature comments/people here. It is a wonder you all survived, but there is still a chance that natural selection will take place.
homeschooler
March 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
It is unbelievable to me that you, Theresa, get 52 comments on child literacy (a fey days ago). and 118 on an over paid actress who eats her own placenta. The film “Idiocracy” comes to mind.
Lorraine Newman
March 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
That’s why we have Placenta Helper.
homeschooler
March 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
*few
Johnjon
March 27th, 2012
8:03 pm
I think I just threw up a little.
reality
March 27th, 2012
8:17 pm
R U Kiddng Me? Wow your tired .. No sympathy..I’m sure she has a housekeeper, a nice trailer to go to work in everyday where she doesn’t have to cook(food provided on set!), a nanny and now you listen to some Hollywood fruitcake who probably charges you a ridiculous amount of money to SERVE you your placenta..HERES REALITY..try waking up in the morning at 5 to do laundry, get your kids off to daycare, pack lunches, and drive YOURSELF to work In ATL traffic then drag yourself back home to a baby that is up all night then do it all over again..
Debi
March 27th, 2012
8:18 pm
I am an RN and lactation consultant…….this is not uncommon among moms I see and who deliver at our hospital. Not wierd or gross but seems to be theraputic. Anecdotally, it seems moms who had poor milk supplies with first babies have developed great milk supplies with 2nd babies when they took placenta capsules. Several moms I know swear by it for postpartum blues!
It is so sad to see how closed-minded people are.
LaDonna Normand Brown
March 27th, 2012
8:38 pm
If we all could look like “January Jones” maybe we should give it a go…Who knows what we ingest in a capsule that we don’t know about. As far as face creams it has been used or a form of.
Leigh
March 27th, 2012
10:38 pm
Honey? I’m starving! Is there any of that placenta left?
tommyt63
March 27th, 2012
10:39 pm
yeah idiot ..we’re the only animals that use toilet paper too. Should we change that to regress to lower order animal status as well. These actors are basically idiots that don’t really have anything going on in their lives to gamble when they go to Hollywood to roll the dice. Why do we care what they do?I will never understand the fascination with people who live in fantasy world
Will Jones
March 27th, 2012
11:06 pm
fyi: Art leads life, and “Mad Men” is the only show on TV, to my knowledge, which took the trouble to devise a scene and circumstance in a story line to portray the true reaction of the false-elite Bush/Rockefeller faction (Francis’ “comforting” January) to the assassination of President Kennedy they ordered or condoned, by CIA colonel E. Howard Hunt, GHW Bush, and Richard Nixon.
That makes it a righteous, patriotic work which all true Americans should appreciate, by G-d, to better understand the same faction’s thinking in committing 9/11 abetted by the Jews of Mossad and PNAC.
Sami Jones
March 28th, 2012
12:03 am
No Beth, the dingo ate your bay-be
auburn loser
March 28th, 2012
2:08 am
Placenta, placenta. What’s all the fuss about? Look, there are many ways to cook it. The best way is to marinate with garlic, tarragon and lime juice, and grill to a medium rare. Better than filet migon.
Best with Guinness, and sweet potato fries. mmmmmmmmmmm.
auburn loser
March 28th, 2012
2:17 am
and if you’re in a pinch…you can always use a pubic hair to clear any placenta that is stuck between your teeth. the moral…it’s always better to try and suck placenta thru a straw, so as to not
get any caught in your teeth.
nora
March 28th, 2012
5:43 pm
Cry me a river, Miss Hollywood Star who probably has a full time nanny in addition to her doula. Boo-hoo-hoo. The rest of us did the best we could with new motherhood – and the majority of us left the placenta at the hospital to be made into cosmetics. ;)
Trey
March 28th, 2012
9:00 pm
Disgusting. What’s worse is that this was written about. Hey, I saw a man picking a huge, bloody booger out of his nose at the grocery store, he ate it. Do you want to report about that, too? It’s full of iron and vitamins, as it was covered in blood.
Matt
March 28th, 2012
11:38 pm
I just puked in my mouth.
Mmm mmm good!
March 29th, 2012
9:26 am
“yeah idiot ..we’re the only animals that use toilet paper too. ”
Not true. I know several people that wipe their dogs after doing the deed. Indeed, my mother used to make us wipe our dearly departed Charlie’s a**. She did not want bacon strips on the carpet.
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