Temperature: Not Taken
Taking: Multivitamin
5MTHF
Dexamethasone
Clomid
Vitamin C
L-Argenine
Cervix is low and soft for shark week. Puffiness is because of suctioning of cervical cup.
Note how light the bleeding is... A friend gave birth on Wednesday or something like that and I absconded with her placenta that evening with the promise of pilled versions to come out of my kitchen. I got time to work on it Friday, and so, during the evening, I prepped the placenta.
Blotting... The paint is there so I could print it with non-toxic paint for her before I destroyed its integrity.
Sorry for the quality, Matt took the pictures and he's horrible at it.
Close up of fetal side of placenta.
Right before I started to hack it up I cut the cord off and it started bleeding all over my kitchen so I had to put it in the sink. >.>
Why is this relevant: my bleeding. My kitchen smelled like human placenta and my body recognized the smell. It was confused. I hadn't given birth, why was I smelling placenta? But, it was shark week so my body decided that it must have gotten something wrong and I HAD actually given birth.
Cramping started about 5 minutes in to rinsing the placenta. I filled up my damned diva cup FOUR times during the hour and a half that I worked on this thing. FOUR times.
Cramps were like after birth cramps. My stupid body thought I was post partum because of placenta smell and started to gush at the rate of a post partum period. So, today was already light because my body did in an hour what it usually takes 4 days to completely finish.
Moral of the story: don't prepare placentas while on a period.
Or do, if you want to get it over with quickly and don't mind the cramping. I told my other heavily pregnant friend she isn't allowed to give birth for another 27-8 days so when I prep hers I can have a quick period again. She told me that I just need to stop the onslaught of monthly blood gushing but really, at this point we all kind of know how much of a reality that is not.
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