"Give it to her"

If I were someone with a history of post-partum depression and I were pregnant again,  I would definitely be interested in this.

Ingesting the placenta

Debi French was dreading the birth of her fourth child. She wanted the baby, to be sure, but she was terrified of being visited again with the overwhelming despair that came over her in the days and weeks after her last delivery.

French's midwife offered her an unusual remedy: She suggested the expectant mother ingest her own placenta as a means of allaying postpartum depression. The temporary organ was saved, dried and emulsified, then placed in gelatin capsules and taken by the mother in the months after the birth in December 2004.
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The practice, known as placentophagy, is far from widespread and is received with great skepticism by more traditional medical experts. But among a small but vocal contingent of expectant mothers and proponents, it is strongly believed that the organ created by the woman's body to pass nutrients between mother and fetus and is expelled after birth is rich in chemicals that can help mitigate fluctuations in hormones believed to cause postpartum depression.

Seems as most mammals do precisely that, but it's tough  to get control of the placenta in some hospitals where, because it contains blood,  it's classified as hazardous medical waste.  But not for long I bet since Ann Swenson went to court .

"We didn't even have to have a trial — the judge said, 'Give it to her' — so it was shocking to everybody, actually,"
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The hospital has been storing the placenta in a freezer; Swanson says it's probably too late for it to be of any medicinal use to her. "Recovering from a C-section was a lot more traumatic, and I was definitely a bit emotional, so my husband will attest I definitely could have used my placenta," she says.

I expect the hospitals will find a way to charge mothers much as they do with umbilical blood banks.