Placenta anyone??

slinky · 18-04-2006, 10:04

I'll eat the placenta, says Cruise
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is planning to eat his new baby's placenta.
It is the latest in a series of unusual revelations by the 43-year-old Mission Impossible star about the child he is expecting with fiancee Katie Holmes.
He told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.
Cruise has also claimed he knew actress Holmes, 27, was pregnant, even before she told him.

A follower of Scientology, he has defended the religion's belief that women should give birth in silence.

"It's really about respecting the woman.
"It's not about her not screaming," he has told GQ.
Cruise recently also said he believes he can cure drug addicts.
The actor plans to marry Holmes in the summer.
He said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now

slinky · 18-04-2006, 10:05

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A follower of Scientology, he has defended the religion's belief that women should give birth in silence.

I wonder how many times he has given BIRTH!!!!

Gayle · 18-04-2006, 10:27

Yes, always makes me laugh when men suggest anything to do with childbirth - until you have a uterus you can't have an opinion - is my view.

Having said that, I wanted to see the placenta - I was also quite keen on the idea of eating it but it was damaged so they wouldn't let me (personally I think they dropped it deliberately to stop me asking for it - haha)!

slinky · 18-04-2006, 10:38

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Yes, always makes me laugh when men suggest anything to do with childbirth - until you have a uterus you can't have an opinion - is my view.

Yeah it makes me laugh when you hear men saying " why don't you try it with no pain relief this time DARLING".........

Yeah why don't you try shoving a football where the sun don't shine, while singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles"....and no pain relief DARLING!!!

Basher · 18-04-2006, 11:14

Freak

Tinkerbelle · 18-04-2006, 13:25

lol!! I was offered my placenta when mine were born. I could have had it fried or liquidised. I graciously declined lol!

Out of interest Lettie .... how many people do actually eat their placenta?

accymel · 18-04-2006, 13:35

Cant you tell its women that give birth & not men - gee they scream when you crush their hand never mind have anything massive pop out of a hole

Glad i wasn't offered i was sick enough pmsl

Margaret Pilkington · 18-04-2006, 14:21

Wonder if I should send him a bottle of HP sauce?????????

slinky · 18-04-2006, 14:22

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Wonder if I should send him a bottle of HP sauce?????????

Might make it taste a bit better!! Not that I would know what it tastes like YUCK

Margaret Pilkington · 18-04-2006, 14:24

Slinky I was munching through a bag of jube-jubes when I read this......it has fair put me off. I couldn't eat placenta...it smells funny.

slinky · 18-04-2006, 14:27

Oww I couldn't eat anything that had been stuck inside me for 9 month's............I get the feeling that didn't sound right!!

and wait for the dodgy comments!

Romps · 18-04-2006, 15:13

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Originally Posted by Basher

Freak

lol actually I was going to say that!!!!!

Less · 18-04-2006, 15:42

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Yes, always makes me laugh when men suggest anything to do with childbirth - until you have a uterus you can't have an opinion - is my view.

Hello, Gayles got her dungarees on, I'll have you know there are some men sensitive to the thought of childbirth without having a uterus!
I'm not one of them! (I'm not bitter but I do think you deserve all the pain you get, you never stop telling us about it!).
I suffered more than she did with afterbirth, (always lumbered with the kids while she went out!).

Gayle · 18-04-2006, 16:00

That's fair - the nine months of hell that we go through is just about equal in pain level to the following 18 years!

Sara · 18-04-2006, 16:17

Eating the placenta:- I feel queezy just reading it.