Is Tom Cruise going to eat his fiancee’s placenta?

Tom Cruise has made the front pages by joking that he is going to eat the placenta after his fiancee gives birth. Are there really any medical benefits to eating a placenta?

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I had previously blogged about this issue where some sectors of societies eat their own placenta. A placenta is the part of flesh (or whatever you want to call it) that is filled with blood vessels. When a woman is pregnant, the placenta act as a food supply cum filter. The baby gets the oxygen and food supply through the placenta but the baby’s blood and the mom’s blood never mix because the placenta is like the exchange station.

One supposed reason is that it can reduce the incidence of post-natal depression. Its also been claimed to have nutritional properties needed by women after childbirth.

I find it sickening because no matter how you want to term it, it is for goodness sakes, a piece of our flesh and blood! I had seen a stray piece of placenta or womb lining (I can’t be sure) dropping out of my bloodied womb after birth. It is gory to the max! So, how on earth any woman or man can cook and eat it, is beyond my comprehension. Barbaric.

Well, this Tom Cruise belongs to the Church of Scientology which has a website selling every kind of books for USD49.95 to cure all your problems. (I am not going to link it so you can google for them). Initially, I thought it is some new Christian group. But it is not. It is more like some theories practice by the followers. I don’t know how the name ‘church’ comes about.

What caught my eyes is this : Mothers who give birth ARE NOT supposed to talk during labour. The doctors and nurses too cannot talk. How crazy is that? When I am in labour, all four letters word flew out of my mouth. It is that agonising. My ob-gyn had to shusshed me with his blue eyes, blond hair, American slang “Lilian dear, just a little while more”. The nurses had to cheer in unison with their ‘PUSH….STOP….PUSH..’. My husband had to offer me the moon and the sun for putting me through the pain of bringing his child into the world.

So, enough said. Tom Cruise is nuts. First he disallowed talking. Now he jokes he wants to eat Katie Holmes placenta. Don’t anyone go preachy-preachy that he has the right to do what he wants. I have the write to say what I want and I have the right to delete comments too.