It would seem to me the placenta is not to be cooked.  Just eaten
right
after delivery for the most nutritional value.  But who am i to say, I
never ate any of mine.  Although I might have given it a thought if I
was
educated properly on the subject during the time of my births. Along a
more deeper thought,  if one is to miscarriage, what would one do with
this? The same as the placenta?  Perhaps not because most miscarriage
result in a defect, yes?
I recall as a child, my dog had puppies, all still born.  My dog not
only
ate the sack, cord and placenta, but also the dead puppies.
Trish


One could just chow the whole thing down raw after the birth, or
better yet
dry it like jerky and grind it into a powder, it could then be used
for
medicine for the mother and child. In Traditional Chinese Medicine,
dried
placenta capsules would be taken by the mother for some time after the
birth, and given to the baby later when away from his mother for any
reason.
(Because the energy of the placenta is the tie that binds them. He
would
have her energy even in her absence.)
A placenta is large enough that some could be eaten raw at birth and
the
rest could be dried and saved for medicine.
In the case of miscarriage, it seems that it would be just fine to eat
the
placenta. It may not have functioned properly, but I can't think of
any
reason to not eat it. If there is a defect in the fetus, that doesn't
mean
that the placenta is inedible. It seems to me that the consumption of
the
placenta would also aid emotional healing after miscarriage (b/c the
placenta is full of hormones which prevent PPD).
Have you ever heard of lotus birth? After the baby is born, the cord
is not
cut. The placenta is expelled from the mother and the baby and
placenta are
wrapped together in a blanket until the cord and placenta come off on
it's
own. Parents who practice this say that the baby responds to
stimulation of
the placenta as though it were part of it's own body (because it is,
in
essence).
Stacie