i feel like a reporter with some hot news scoop… only its not that hot. and its not really news.
but, it is NOT for those who faint at gory stories. i’m so sorry.
THIS just in from the housing department:
there’s a guy that came into our office yesterday – bearded, braided hair, hippie type – lets call him Geo. great guy. loves Jesus. works with physical plant.
Geo’s wife recently gave birth. and he was telling us about how they kept the placenta in their freezer for a month. they almost forgot about it – but recently thawed it out.
why? he buried it in their garden to use as fertilizer. said he now has the most amazing basil and pepper plants growing.
[i PROMISE - he stoodinmyoffice and told us this!]
my boss chimes in that she knows a lady who worked at the hospital and used to fertilize her prize-winning roses with glass jars of throw-away human blood.
oh.
my.
nasty.
i almost fainted from light-headedness…
and “threatened” to quit my job. right there. on the spot.
Geo laughed. and said he’s got tons of stories. i told him (for your benefit) that he couldn’t come back unless he brings a story with him…
…so get ready for more.
what’s something crazy you’ve heard lately??
YIKES!!! That’s crazy, I’ve heard of this, but to hear it again… and he’s going to eat those peppers and basil?! Wow! The crazy housing office, a friend of mine worked there… you’ll get some great blogging material, I’m looking forward to it!
Now that’s disgustin’.
That is just gross … as soon as mine comes out … I want it in the trash not in someone’s freezer to use as fertilizer!
Didn’t Cindy Crawford keep her placenta and then bury it under a tree…thought I read that in one of my dirty entertainment magazines.
I have given birth three times and can’t say I’ve ever seen a placenta…I’d like to keep it that way.
WOW…..so much to look forward to when we get pregnany huh Mandy?
Something crazy I’ve heard lately……probably a whole lot of stuff that I can’t remember now that I’m being asked the question UGH
*PREGNANT
ew. ew. ew.
i like these stories even though it’s gross.
Placentas are amazing!!
I bet he does have some great basil and pepper! 
What do you think people did “in the old days?” haha!!
But I see how that would seem gross. I personally never had a desire to see mine. Jake did and he said it was blackish purple.
Okay I think I am totally the minority on this story, but when I read it, yeah I cringed at the thought of it in the freezer, but when he said he used it as fertilizer I thought “Well that is COOL!”
I’m weird that way. I’m also a nursing nazi and make my own baby food. I think I’m thisclosetoahippy somedays. And then I remember I love to shower and do my hair and makeup. 
HA!!
Now the blood….that is a WHOLE OTHER opinion right there.
EW.
Okay, I am totally the only one that was not grossed out by the placents.
Brandy…
Placentas are fascinating. But to put in my garden?? I’m not sure about that!!
Yeah, leave the blood out of the picture.
Mandy- THE weirdest story I have ever heard in my line of work as an insurance adjuster was a man who had a lover, let’s call him BOB. Well, BOB had cancer and passed. His lover lets call him NUTS, was so in love with BOB that he made a special drop floor in his Ford van and put BOB there in embalming fluid and cement. BOBS grave was never found until NUTS had an accident. The grave of BOB cracked and BOB was found pointing out. His hand and finger were exposed.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. True Story…. amazing!!
I saw my placenta when they were examining it after birth both times.It did an amazing job and caring for my girls but I wouldn’t want to put it in my freezer.
Think three months is bad? I know this lady, her kids are now in their twenties…and it is STILL. in the freezer.
Time to defrost, my friends.
I thought..hmm…after reading this what all can you do with a placenta…I wish I hadn’t of googled it.
http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/placenta-recipes.htm
Check that out….all types of recipes to use….I am now feeling nausiated.
Also…I’ve read your blog with my google reader for quite a while…sorry my first post is with an odd link and a bit strange. I promise to be better next time.
Jen Griffin
@Heidi…Surprised I haven’t read the Bob/Nuts story in the Enquirer….That’s crazy!
@Brandi- Here in San Diego it’s a story of ALL adjusters
. We use it to break them in 
Poor BOB and Nuts!!
Break in newbies I mean
That doesn’t phase me. Placentas are cool.
I ran across this one today….Not really gross or anything but it is quite ingenious
Drug dealers make Jesus statue out of six pounds of cocaine
They were hoping the statue, which could be worth as much as $30,000 on the streets, would be dismissed by border guards as just another of the hundreds of plaster representations hawked to borderland tourists. No such luck; a dog sniffed out the drug. (Houston Chronicle)
it’s custom for some cultures to eat the placenta.
can you imagine wlaking in from work asking what’s for dinner honey?
“Oh, just some chicken, sauted in placenta juice over angel hair pasta…yum hu?”
“wlaking” is Tazmanian for “walking”
I’m way too flabbergasted by the placenta-in-the-freezer story to even think of anything else. A placenta in general doesn’t disgust me or gross me out (not that I’ve seen one, but I find things like that … and worms and diseases) oddly fascinating, but keeping it in the freezer — now that’s just gross! I don’t even like to keep meat in my freezer, let alone PLACENTA.
i saw one here the last time i had a baby (5 months ago) and uh….SICK
Seriously. Nauseated. ewwwww. But to each their own I guess . . .There could be worse things in the freezer I suppose. Oooh! That’s a good WW question!!
Eat it!!!!
Oh how gross!!!!
What is the worst thing you ever eaten?
me: snails
Oh I forgot.
An earthworm… hey I was a kid!!!
Tam ok you have taken it to a whole new level … the freezer is one thing but eating it … I’m glad I’ve already had dinner … I may not have breakfast now
i’ve sat there and WATCHED blood squirt out of my veins and into the vials that they use in the hospitals. sat there and watched.
but there’s something about this story that makes me wanna pass out.
we talked about it again today on the way to a luncheon. i was driving. i nearly lost my appetite. right there. again.
and now reading your comments. and that link.
seriously.
i’m not eating dinner tonite.
but i LOVE y’all.
LOL TAM please don’t serve that when I come over for dinner!
Mandy–I’m with you–water is all I’m taking in today.
Mandy – would you like some cherry koolaid?
LOL
NO!!
thankyouverymuch
First it was Tam and her bananas. Now Mandy and her placenta. (Well, not HER placenta). I’m not sure these blogs are safe for perusal by men anymore!!
BTW, I was taking a big swig of my Aquafina Alive water beverage when your page opened up and I nearly spit it across my puter monitor when I saw the headline!
i’m so sorry. i went through atleast 3 other blog titles… that one was the most suiting.
I once read in an old e-mail that the female praying mantis takes the head off of the male praying mantis before mating. Can you imagine…?
“Honey, I’m home! WHAT THE–”
YEP!!! and i’m pretty sure that afterwards, she eats him… all. of. him.
Reminds me of the Silence of the lambs,
“Clarice, would you like Faava beans with that”
This works great in dieting, I have no desire to go eat my carne asada right now.
Well maybe
Reasons why Cathi is not ready to have babies, #417!
Reasons why Cathi will NEVER eat someone else’s ‘home-grown’ veggies, #2
[#1 is reserved for my great-aunt, who scattered my uncle's ashes over her tomato garden]
Hmm.. I thought that’s what they used to make cosmetics…it’s a good source of collegen supposedly or that could be an urban myth.
uuuugggghhhhhhhh……
so they brought this post up at bible study tonite – JUST as i was eyeing a piece of homemade blueberry coffee cake.
seriously.
they read this. they knew i was grossed out. and they laughed at me.
and then i had to TELL THE STORY AGAIN for those who don’t read this silly blog.
and they enjoyed the fact that i didn’t touch the coffee cake.
sigh
So I just repeated this story to hubby. First comment was “That’s just freaky.” and then (referring to the placenta freezing couple) “They don’t live in Georgia, do they?” (we’re about to move there) Poor hubby. I ruined his appetite, too, I think.
Cannot begin to top that story.
And has changed my attitude re: the horse & cow compost I dump in the garden. I think that’s about as far as I will go with the ‘natural’ fertilizers thank you.
Lei:HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
they DON’T live in Georgia – they are actually in MA! wow…..
so. how’s the move going???
Susan: You’re welcome!
Mandy – going well so far, thx for asking
not sure when we’ll actually go. I kind of feel guilty that we’re moving there when you miss it so much 
Lei: you enjoy my Georgia for me. i’m excited on your behalf!!
Awwww . . .thanks, girl!
gross. I don’t have any recent good stories to tell you…but tomorrow we are going to this traditional African party of some sort and are I guess supposably the only other white people who got invited (besides the two who live there) because we donated some soccer uniforms…anywho, I guess they are going to slaughter a cow and do some other traditional whatevers…I will take some pictures and give you some insight tomorrow. Yay.
Within minutes of giving birth to my first child my mentally handicapped brother-in-law wanted to come into the room to have his first look at the baby. The placenta was on a table in front of the bed. He ever so slowly walked into the room and then ever so slowly made a U-turn and went back into the hallway. We all joke that he was thinking, “What an ugly nephew I have.”
one day i’m gonna know what a placenta looks like, and then i’m going to have a new FREAK OUT over this entire saga. ewwww……
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh oh my gosh. I’ve never even seen my placentas. Bethany descrbed it something like a large steak. I am growing basil right now and it;s doing great with cow manure and organic compost. I could never eat something that part of my body was fertilizing. That seems kinda cannibalistic to me. WOW I am really grossed out. WOW I feel a little sick. NEVER< EVER EVER Eat anything pesto or basil GEO gives you.
that is so disgusting.
ew.
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