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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though I am exceedingly squeamish, when my son was born, I was shocked that I saw only the beauty of childbirth. Until the placenta came out. There are many normal human reactions to seeing a placenta, ranging from screaming to vomiting to warding it off with a cross. For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin. It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...drove the placenta home, where I wrapped the container in a bag and wrapped that bag in a bag and wrapped that bag in every remaining bag we had in the house. I slept at the hospital that night, grateful that my son will never remember what his parents just did. (See the top 10 iPhone apps for dads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...drove back to the hospital where, thanks to my experiences, the food looked good. When we got home the following day, Sara gave us a truly beautiful placentapill presentation: a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD of lullabies and a satin pouch. In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart. When I asked Sara what the hell I was supposed to do with that, she said people often use it to keep a baby's first tooth and lock of hair. That's when I realized that placenta-eating is really just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

Jackson, Joe • death of son of provides perfect opportunity for plugging new record company established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

Lombard, Frank •arrest of after sex with the adopted five-year-old son of is offered by on the Internet to an undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

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