WOMAN SUES FOR RIGHT TO EAT PLACENTA

A pregnant Mississippi woman had to fight in court to keep her placenta, and she won. Jordan Thiering is due to have her first baby boy any day now. But during a recent doctor’s visit, she says she was pretty shocked to find out she couldn’t keep the placenta. Thiering says the Department of Health’s Rules and Regulations requires expectant mothers to go through some legal steps before packing it up and leaving the hospital. Feeling helpless, she reached out to an online support group and met an attorney who helped her win the case. “This placenta gave life to my baby and that’s the main reason,” said Thiering. “Whether people think it is gross or weird, it doesn’t affect them, it affects me.” Thiering plans to eat it to because she says it’s very nutritious. She says hopefully it will give her more energy, iron and help remove the baby blues after giving birth. “It is not like it just comes out of me and I start eating it,” she said. “But they encapsulate it. So that means they dehydrate it, grind it up and put it in capsules just like a multivitamin.”
* Unless you live in North Korea.
* Encapsulating cuts way down on the vomiting.
* By her, anyway. Not by the rest of us.
* Even Hannibal Lecter thinks this is gross.
* She does know it’s the start of the summer grilling season, yes?
* Is there a word for being your own cannibal?
* What if, say, she lost a leg. Would she want to get the nutrition from that, too?
* Eating the placenta – it’s kind of a New Age thing. And also kind of a Stone Age thing.
* How do you “pack up” placenta? In one of those Chinese food take-out buckets?
* “Hey – this isn’t leftover egg drop soup!”
* She doesn’t care if people think it’s gross or weird? Try gross AND weird.
* It’s just like a multi-vitamin? Well, have a multi-vitamin then.
* I’d nominate this for Grossest Story of the Year, but I want to forget it as soon as possible.
* It’s the earliest any kid has ever been embarrassed by their mother.
* “Oh, Mom. Sure it’s your right to do this but did you have to tell everyone about it?”