This isn't necessarily about placentophagia, but it is a beautiful description of the importance and awesome-ness of the placenta.

Our bodies are truly amazing.

"It may not be pretty to look at, but it's the most beautiful organ there is. In the Old Testament it was thought to be the External Soul.  In 1559 a man named Realdus Columbus called it "Placenta," after the Latin word for "circular cake." (Ref., Williams Obstetrics, 18thedition.)   READ MORE