And very importantly, eating placentas also allows for the instinct of mothering to kick in.Ĭheck this out. The oxytocin content will cause milk letdown, and endorphins will help ease pain of the uterus contractions shrinking it for hours after birth. Eating too many placentas can cause loose stools, so it is not a bad idea to save some, cut in smaller pieces, refrigerate and give them to the new mom over the period of the next 24 hours. I strongly urge you to save the placentas when the puppies are born via Cesarean and do not discard any from natural birth. Eating placentas may seem very strange to us, but it is actually very beneficial. When you allow your bitch to eat the afterbirth, you allow her a powerful natural pain relief that was produced in her own body.Īs for milk, placentophagy causes milk letdown because oxytocin contained in placenta allows smooth muscles around mammary glands to contract and release milk. The level of these endogenous (made within the body) opioids was considerably higher in mothers that ate afterbirth, which means that their pain threshold was dramatically increased. endorphin and dynorphin, as compared to the mothers who were not allowed to consume placentas. Research in rats, cows and pigs has shown that mothers which consumed afterbirth and amniotic fluid had elevated levels of natural opioid substances, e.g. Besides the obvious purpose of hiding any trace of birth and vulnerable newborns from predators, eating placenta has been proven to make birthing less painful, and to help with milk letdown. As yuck as it sounds to us, placentophagy is common in mammals. The only thing a mama dog might want to eat on a whelp day, other than Mother’s Pudding, are placentas. These past few months alone I have shared the subject of placentophagy with about dozen people, so it is time to write about it. Research for the book was a wild ride of reading through hundreds of scientific papers, from quite boring to those wake-up-you-have-to-hear-this type, uttered to my patient husband in the middle of the night. I have been quiet on the blog front, while working feverishly on my upcoming book on nourishing a pregnant dog.
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