Pregnancy in SL

Oh, thanks for pointing out that we have gotten off track, don't want to derail the thread. So, Fox, what did your grandmother do with all the frozen placentas? Did the moms ever come to retrieve them, or??

Why on earth anyone would wanna keep pieces of their own flesh is beyond me. It's like keeping a finger-clipping collection or an ear wax ball or make a belly button pea.

Nah, this is just woman's body stuff. Can't say I ever want to try placenta a la lemone, but the topic itself isn't ew-making.

Now, if we were discussing turning foreskin into canapes, that would be a different matter.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

I can just picture them, with a tiny sprig of parsely stuck in the top, standing in straight lines, on a fancy tray with a doily. Or, maybe deep fried.

I'm not sure about how Jig feels about this, but somewhere out there, there is a large number of men squirming uncomfortably . . .

When did the forum become a bunch of cannibals?

I think it must be because of attitude. I cant honestly say that Lynx or me or a close group of my friends have ever really discussed pregnancy or our biology. At least we brush over th esubject (as we did when we were 19) and move on. I dont want kids so bfs are alerted within hours of that. I mean we know what we are and who we are, but snuggling down and discovering ourselves and our shared womanhood isnt really our "thing". It may be because I prefer the company of men over women. I mix more freely with men and have found women may (as one woman in real - a retired teacher, actually - said to me on Friday) find me "irreverent" - I dont "honour" the demand for honour or responsibility or teh respectable. So maybe "woman's talk" is alien in that regard. Also I dont have kids, and no husband. I do listen to Woman's Hour on BBC radio4 - does that count?

in answer to my friend treasure's question and in an effort not to gross out jig anymore, old gran kept placentas in the freezer or fridge at home coz she was midwife doing home deliveries.......one of those early addenbrookes hospital ladies that thought they should hang onto them I suppose for medical reasons.....now my mum was a pretty rubbish cook and as kids we often said....'hey mum what on earth is this?'......I daren't ask her now, if she was an 'earth mother' then, but she was definately a 1960's hippie chick... anyways my old dad was very partial years ago to 'bubble and squeak'............basically left overs...so who knows....

i dont have one but how do you have one on sl this site (i know how in real life) haha im just saying im new to the game but i know you can adot so how can i have the baby on my own or adopt for free?and ........if i did it vitualy with a guy on sl but with bra and black underwear on can i get preggy still?

In some religious and other traditions, the placenta is buried along with a sapling tree, to celebrate the birth. It was not necessarily always saved to be *eaten.*



Only if standing on your head in a swimming pool.

I did that for both of my kids (and yes it did sit in the freezer for a week or so first )

Good one. I enjoyed that.

And wow ... way for a thread to generate response! Woop woop!
Now off to RL work I go ...

Oh and of course if this were actually RL, I'd actually have the father involved. No RL kids for me right now, thanks. lol. I, too, like the male member ... as well as many female members ... *cough*

Baby-making is man's work too Eating placenta is definitely not cannibalistic... it's nature's little snack-o-vitamins and minerals.



Scylla's a feminist, plus she's Canadian. I wasn't surprised she didn't say Ewww.

Gah....OK yeah that's not something nature intended to be eaten

My friends who are Canadian all say "ew". I have an "ear" for language and the way Canadians express this sound is slightly shorter and more "clipped" that the American way. I realize it is also almost a completey feminine expression. Another point is that it is written "ew" when it should be written "eu" - ofcourse this refers to the keyboard position of the letters, There is also something about the "word" that makes it vaguely attractive to a listener - in fact, it really can be voiced in two ways - with the genuine disgust of the "morally or physically offended" such as a friend of mine hearing that an older woman was sleeping with one of our gfs went "ew" but it was short and sharp and inserted into the conversation. Or it can be used like I was doing so yesterday, ina teasing way that was more "if you touch it you'll burn your fingers" - I really was being grossed out but wanted to learn more.

It is a pretty "ew" topic. I can honestly say that NONE of my friends are stocking up on placentas. I think it may be because we leave them to medical research? Not sure about that. But the mystique of feminine earth-motherhood was more a sixties thing. My mum was VERY young when she had me but HER mum was a Biba Boutique afficionado. For that generation Carnaby Street was THE place. I can't imagine any of my family going in for placentas in the fridge. It's a bit like taxidermy, isn't it? Imagine:

"Here's a fine rack of Moose antlers I snaffled last time I was in Rhode Island"
"And what's this?"
"Ahhh, THAT? Yes, by George! a fine placenta my wife produced the last time she dropped a whelp. Huge isn't it? World record I should imagine."

See what I mean?