Ok does this seem inappropriate to anyone else?

ashley8918

MagicInk said:

ashley8918 said:

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

This thread makes me really glad I'm not the only one who things 99% of newborns are ugly.

But also, I still don't get the eating placenta thing. It came out of you. We don't drink our own blood if we cut open our hand by accident, or eat or own scabs, or try to drink our menstrual blood (at least, I sure hope you're not).  Regardless of nutritional value, it was inside you. 

Also reminds me of cannibalism. 

Well...actually I do to the first bolded. I mean not like sit down with a shot glass but if I cut my finger, first thing I do is pop in my mouth. Not to enjoy the blood, but just...what I've always done.

And dude, second bolded, people do. They totally do. I've seen a video. Don't google this, don't look it up on youtube, just believe me ok. They do.

Me too... I don't even know why, now that I think about it.

I was trying to come up with a reason and I was like "I don't have one...this is just my go to response..." I guess it's kind of soothing or something?

It totally is! Paper cuts exposed to air are fucking hell.  And also helps prevent you from bleeding all over the place.

ohannabelle

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

This thread makes me really glad I'm not the only one who things 99% of newborns are ugly.

But also, I still don't get the eating placenta thing. It came out of you. We don't drink our own blood if we cut open our hand by accident, or eat or own scabs, or try to drink our menstrual blood (at least, I sure hope you're not).  Regardless of nutritional value, it was inside you. 

Also reminds me of cannibalism. 

Well...actually I do to the first bolded. I mean not like sit down with a shot glass but if I cut my finger, first thing I do is pop in my mouth. Not to enjoy the blood, but just...what I've always done.

And dude, second bolded, people do. They totally do. I've seen a video. Don't google this, don't look it up on youtube, just believe me ok. They do.

What. The. Everloving. Fuck. 

I'm afraid to ask, and I'm sure the hell not going to google this because I really don't want to see this. But, why?????? Is this a misguided health benefits thing, or something someone does for twisted fun?

VulgarGirl

ohannabelle said:

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

This thread makes me really glad I'm not the only one who things 99% of newborns are ugly.

But also, I still don't get the eating placenta thing. It came out of you. We don't drink our own blood if we cut open our hand by accident, or eat or own scabs, or try to drink our menstrual blood (at least, I sure hope you're not).  Regardless of nutritional value, it was inside you. 

Also reminds me of cannibalism. 

Well...actually I do to the first bolded. I mean not like sit down with a shot glass but if I cut my finger, first thing I do is pop in my mouth. Not to enjoy the blood, but just...what I've always done.

And dude, second bolded, people do. They totally do. I've seen a video. Don't google this, don't look it up on youtube, just believe me ok. They do.

What. The. Everloving. Fuck. 

I'm afraid to ask, and I'm sure the hell not going to google this because I really don't want to see this. But, why?????? Is this a misguided health benefits thing, or something someone does for twisted fun?

The video I saw was a girl who was, of course, a fucking performance artist. Her point was to normalize menstruation or something. I don't know. She like played with it too. It was disgusting. Fucking performance artists.

But I've heard rumors of other people doing it and I don't ever want to ask why because I don't want to know. I generally don't want to speak to these people at all. They scare me. 

thisismynickname2

LOL, yes, if I get a paper cut or the like I'll suck on my thumb too until I can get a band-aid. I think it's just that or bleed all over the place until I can get to said band-aid. 

I just more mean that if I'm really really bleeding, I don't think about putting those lost nutrients back in my body by drinking it. People who are suffering real blood loss have it replaced directly to their veins! 

Ughhhhhhh. 

lovemesomemonster

MagicInk said:

ohannabelle said:

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

This thread makes me really glad I'm not the only one who things 99% of newborns are ugly.

But also, I still don't get the eating placenta thing. It came out of you. We don't drink our own blood if we cut open our hand by accident, or eat or own scabs, or try to drink our menstrual blood (at least, I sure hope you're not).  Regardless of nutritional value, it was inside you. 

Also reminds me of cannibalism. 

Well...actually I do to the first bolded. I mean not like sit down with a shot glass but if I cut my finger, first thing I do is pop in my mouth. Not to enjoy the blood, but just...what I've always done.

And dude, second bolded, people do. They totally do. I've seen a video. Don't google this, don't look it up on youtube, just believe me ok. They do.

What. The. Everloving. Fuck. 

I'm afraid to ask, and I'm sure the hell not going to google this because I really don't want to see this. But, why?????? Is this a misguided health benefits thing, or something someone does for twisted fun?

The video I saw was a girl who was, of course, a fucking performance artist. Her point was to normalize menstruation or something. I don't know. She like played with it too. It was disgusting. Fucking performance artists.

But I've heard rumors of other people doing it and I don't ever want to ask why because I don't want to know. I generally don't want to speak to these people at all. They scare me. 

Have you seen the video of the lady that knitted for an entire month out of her cooch? Yep, that happened, some kind of "art" display where she stuck the balls of yarn up there and just knitted away in a glass box for people to watch.. Um.. I'm all for alternative art but last I checked my hooha isn't a knitting basket!

VulgarGirl

lovemesomemonster said:

MagicInk said:

ohannabelle said:

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

This thread makes me really glad I'm not the only one who things 99% of newborns are ugly.

But also, I still don't get the eating placenta thing. It came out of you. We don't drink our own blood if we cut open our hand by accident, or eat or own scabs, or try to drink our menstrual blood (at least, I sure hope you're not).  Regardless of nutritional value, it was inside you. 

Also reminds me of cannibalism. 

Well...actually I do to the first bolded. I mean not like sit down with a shot glass but if I cut my finger, first thing I do is pop in my mouth. Not to enjoy the blood, but just...what I've always done.

And dude, second bolded, people do. They totally do. I've seen a video. Don't google this, don't look it up on youtube, just believe me ok. They do.

What. The. Everloving. Fuck. 

I'm afraid to ask, and I'm sure the hell not going to google this because I really don't want to see this. But, why?????? Is this a misguided health benefits thing, or something someone does for twisted fun?

The video I saw was a girl who was, of course, a fucking performance artist. Her point was to normalize menstruation or something. I don't know. She like played with it too. It was disgusting. Fucking performance artists.

But I've heard rumors of other people doing it and I don't ever want to ask why because I don't want to know. I generally don't want to speak to these people at all. They scare me. 

Have you seen the video of the lady that knitted for an entire month out of her cooch? Yep, that happened, some kind of "art" display where she stuck the balls of yarn up there and just knitted away in a glass box for people to watch.. Um.. I'm all for alternative art but last I checked my hooha isn't a knitting basket!

Oh yeah and once again, fucking performance artists. They're a bunch of weirdos. And not the good fun kind of weirdos. The scary maybe secretly a serial killer kind of weirdos.

maeday2

I feel like the title of this thread, Ok does this seem inappropriate to anyone else? has just gone off the rails. 

ALL OF THIS IS INAPPROPRIATE. 

I thought the placenta eating was bad. Nope. Now people drink their hoohaw blood?! 

ETA: Dry heaves. 

southernbelle0915

Between consuming period blood, the placenta and making birth jerky, I have had to keep swallowing so I don't gag reading some of this stuff. Seriously. Who are these misguided souls?

Now that I'm knocked up, I have to think about this stuff and set the rules. No one will even touch a phone or a camera in the delivery room until everything is over, the babe is cleaned off and bundled, and I don't look like I traveled to and from hell in a paper hospital gown. If anyone has a problem with those rules, they can leave the delivery room. Period. 

Chipmunk415

Gah, once again i'm late to this fun thread.

I was a C-section baby. I was also the only one of my dad's three children where he was present for the birth. Therefore, photos.

Most managed to be tasteful. There are a few of mom's incision, and the chaos of getting me out (short cord wrapped around my neck). However, due to the incision and draping, I personally believe I look like an emerging chest burster, a la Alien films.

The photos where I'm goopy, thankfully, are backlit, so despite my little arm and foot sticking up in the air, I'm in shadow. The subsequent images where I'm getting wrapped up, there's a little bit of gook but I am otherwise cleaned up and looking like a shrieking burrito.

Recently came across photos I'd never seen before- two images of my mom breastfeeding me. I was always told she had too much difficulty, so it was decided to put me on formula. As awkward as it was to find the photos, there's such a look of tenderness, love, and happiness on her face, that I got over it.  

There are no other photos of my parents and I post delivery until after they brought me home, as my mom's room was at the end of a hall, right near a stair, and the week before I was born (in November 86) someone dressed as a nurse took a baby while the mother was sleeping from the room and left the hospital down a stairwell.  

Didn't help that twice I was switched with other infants. Nope, I'm not making it up. 15 babies in the ward in November 86, week before Thanksgiving. 14 minorities (black and latino), and one super white little girl- me. Twice, nurses brought the wrong baby into my mother's room. She nearly gave birth....again.

But the idea of eating afterbirth, drinking menstrual blood, having photos of my hooha taken while I'm giving birth....There's a whole lot of "oh fuck no" going on there.

lurkergirl

Ugh...my parents took all the disgusting pictures and just stuck 'em in the family photo album with the rest...like page one is cute pregnant mom, then all of the sudden WHAM! CROWNING-BIRTH-PLACENTA ON THE TABLE. Eewwwww. I was the firstborn. Shockingly, we don't have those photos from my brother's or sister's birth.

VulgarGirl

There are exactly 6 photos of me before I came home from the hospital. All while in the NICU. So I was nice clean.

Emergency c - section 10 weeks early. Not exactly anyone wanting to do a photo op. And thus no goopy photos of your's truly. As far as I'm concerned I came out clean as a whistle via magic.

lurkergirl

MagicInk said:

There are exactly 6 photos of me before I came home from the hospital. All while in the NICU. So I was nice clean.

Emergency c - section 10 weeks early. Not exactly anyone wanting to do a photo op. And thus no goopy photos of your's truly. As far as I'm concerned I came out clean as a whistle via magic.

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Hence the name, right?

I forgot we do have some pics of my sister, but it's because she got stuck for several hours and came out looking like she'd been hit by a mack truck (her face was bruised and swollen, black eyes, oozing blisters...). My dad was afraid they'd need to sue the doctor (they didn't, she was okay, just has a little scar on her cheek from birth)

FutureMrsN3312

In my weird ass brain my ginger baby looks like chucky. As opposed to an actual cute ginger baby. My natural color is on the lower end of the ginger scale. It's strawberry blonde but the underneath that rarely sees sun is pretty red. DH has dark brown hair and had hair when he was born. I was bald until I was almost 3.

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anjemon

I thought my niece was a adorable baby from the first time I saw her when she was about 8 hours old. She has stayed super adorable for the past two years.

But I thought my nephew looked like a wrinkled old man for the first couple of weeks after he was born. I loved him, but I thought he wasn't super cute. But in the past couple of months he has turned completely adorable. Maybe it's because he has a bit of personality. Maybe it's because he has this super wonderful smile. Who knows, but I'm glad he got so cute.