Eating your own placenta?
- No scientific proof for advantages
- Much research says: eating it, doesn't help you 'heal' after birth.
- There is proof that eating can be dangerous and cause problems.
- A study found the following riscs after eating a placenta:
- Blood infection: Which the mother can pass onto her baby during breastfeeding.- Virusses like hepatitis and HIV can survive and be transmitted via the eaten placenta
- Can cause painful migraines