Am I the only person here with enough of an agrarian background to have seen a placenta in real life before?
The ones I've seen (from cows- more than I can count or care to recall, from a cat- three, and from both a horse and a llama- one each) are only slightly smaller than the fetuses they support. They're icky, but they get ignored because there's a newborn critter taking it's first breaths right beside them.
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Originally Posted by Mares
Ew, you're gonna make me into an anti-semenite. Against inseminating anything, ever.
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It's just part of the package, Mares. Seeing a photo of a placenta out of context is an entirely different experience to being present at a birth. The smell of amniotic fluid triggers a deep-down parental urge, and you will forever feel a special protective feeling and attachment to whatever it is you see being born. When I describe it here it sounds rather gross, but in person it's actually kind of cool.