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