What are the consequences of not severing it? I imagine you’d have the weirdest bellybutton on earth if nothing else.
Cheers!
What are the consequences of not severing it? I imagine you’d have the weirdest bellybutton on earth if nothing else.
Cheers!
Yeah, my critical thinking self wonders what kind of magic makes bleeding stop by putting a piece of meat in your cheek.
Bleeding stops when the uterus shrinks back down so the huge open wound left behind by the placenta becomes a small wound. Oxytocin makes that happen, and you get that by just holding your baby. I don’t know how eating the placenta would contribute.
My money is on it being the elemental power of bullshit. It’s likely the same ingredient that makes homeopathy actually ‘do’ anything: time i.e., it would have happened at that point regardless.
hormones? the body has many magic chemicals.