When you are pregnant, the placenta takes over the hormone management. So your placenta is responsable for not rejecting your unborn baby. Cause it is a little weird, that little creature inside of you with it's own blood circulations in it's own environment.
When your baby is born, you don't need the placenta to do this anymore so your placenta will also be born.
Sometimes I hear people say that the placenta is an organ full of trash, you should not consume this. But this is not true! Yes, your baby gives his/her trash via the umbilical cord to the placenta, but the placenta does not storage this. It is a simple serving hatch of transfering the trash to your body so you can get rid of it. So no trash is left behind in the placenta.
But what can you do with it? Well, I'm going to tell you! There are several possibilities to do this. The most frequent is encapsulating. Your placenta will be hydrated, grinded and then put in capsules. So you don't recognize your placenta anymore! This is very attractive if you still have to get a little getting use to this idea.
Another way is a tincure. A tincture is strong alcohol where a piece of the placenta has been put in. Cause of this, the tincture takes over the hormones which were in the placenta. When you feel the need for extra energy, you can put a couple of drops under your tongue. The big advantage of a tincture is that it stays good for a very long time!
Consuming your placenta is actually very normal. Look at other mammals. Eating your placenta is very normal for them. They all do it! Even when it is a herbivor or when the animal is on top of the foodchain. Even lions eat there placenta because they know it is good for their recovery.