Placenta Pie v Red Bull?

Ive never watched 'Mad Men'. In fact, I'm not at all sure that I had even heard of the TV series until last year. Needless to say I was amazed that this massively popular programme was now in series 5, especially when I had no idea what happened in years 1 to 4.

I know, very very little about it, apart from a bit of hype and some names like Christina Hendricks and January Jones.

I do know that Christina is celebrated for her curvy body, porcelain skin and red hair. As for January Jones, all I knew about her was that she had perhaps one of the coolest names ever. I mean, it really sounds like a famous persons name, or maybe the name of a stripper in Vegas, either or, it sounds very glam.

Now, however, I know another thing about January Jones. Yay me! Yup, I now know that she ate her placenta. Actually, I'm not sure if maybe that shouldn't be her baby's placenta. Though lets be honest, is ownership of the placenta really the issue here?

In fact, is it really an issue that some one ate a placenta? Animals do it, though some animals actually eat their young too, so maybe that's not a great example. In fact, I'll leave that statement there for the time being.

Ok, if some random person broke into maternity wards and started making off with 'used' placentas to turn them into placenta pie or whatever, that would most definitely freak me out. Even though, by rights, if I didn't want it, why shouldn't someone else have it?

I didn't eat THE placenta, I maybe chomped on the inside of my cheek during labour however, I can assure you that is the only part of my body I got my teeth into. But I don't even remember being offered the chance to eat my placenta, possibly it's not available on the NHS.

Maybe I was and was just to out of my face on Entonox, in fact, the only bit of child birth that I can recall feeling like how I imagined birth to feel like was when the placenta but came out. Rank and disgusting as that sounds, I can hand on heart say that not only did I not see it, but I've no idea what the hell happened to it.

And back to January Jones, if she wants to eat her freeze-dried placenta thats been shoved into capsules, then that's up to her. It's not my business and after all who am I to judge her?

Personally I used several cans of red bull a day to give me energy after having my son.

If I had been offered to have the placenta freeze dried & in capsules I'm not sure what I would've done. However after reading some recipes for placenta and seeing the pictures, I can honestly say that January made the better choice.