on another related note...years ago i read an article in Mother Earth
News
....how to prepare the human placenta after the baby was born...then
eat the
placenta. they said it was very good for revitalising the mother after
giving
birth.
does not sound appealing to me.

Actually that is what you are supposed to do with the placenta after
birth.
Consumption of the placenta (rich in oxytocin) aids the uterus in
contracting properly after childbirth, lessening risk of hemmorhaging.
(These days in hospitals, they give moms an injection of synthetic
Pitocin.)It also supplies the mother with iron and B-vitamins (which
were
part of her body in the first place. Recycling at it's best). The
placenta
is an organ, with all of the wonderful nutritional qualities of any
organ
meat. Nearly all mammals eat their placentas. If my babies were born
at
home, I'd have done the same.
Stacie