Heather Radke

This is Tina Delisle. She's a professor of history at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and she's writing a book about the placenta. Indigenous people were understanding the placenta for a long time. She explained to us that this dawning we were having, that the placenta is kind of like a parent.

It's something that a lot of people had already been thinking about the placenta for a really long time.

It's something that a lot of people had already been thinking about the placenta for a really long time.

It's something that a lot of people had already been thinking about the placenta for a really long time.

Okay, so you're saying that the placenta isn't just looking after the well-being of the child when it's in the womb, but also into adulthood? Yes.

Okay, so you're saying that the placenta isn't just looking after the well-being of the child when it's in the womb, but also into adulthood? Yes.

Okay, so you're saying that the placenta isn't just looking after the well-being of the child when it's in the womb, but also into adulthood? Yes.

But things have changed some since Tina gave birth in 2006. In states like Hawaii and Texas and Oregon, now you can legally take your baby's placenta home with you.

But things have changed some since Tina gave birth in 2006. In states like Hawaii and Texas and Oregon, now you can legally take your baby's placenta home with you.

But things have changed some since Tina gave birth in 2006. In states like Hawaii and Texas and Oregon, now you can legally take your baby's placenta home with you.

People often think like having a big butt or a small butt means something. So like, oh, women with big butts, they are more fertile. That's a really commonly held myth about butts. Yeah, lots of people say that to me. Have you ever heard that?

People often think like having a big butt or a small butt means something. So like, oh, women with big butts, they are more fertile. That's a really commonly held myth about butts. Yeah, lots of people say that to me. Have you ever heard that?

People often think like having a big butt or a small butt means something. So like, oh, women with big butts, they are more fertile. That's a really commonly held myth about butts. Yeah, lots of people say that to me. Have you ever heard that?

I got interested in this topic because I have a big butt. And when I was in high school, I'm a white woman who grew up in the suburbs of Lansing, Michigan. And when I was in high school, that felt like, yeah, it's not just something we didn't talk about, but something to be a little bit ashamed of. It felt like kind of the wrong body to have. But then over the last...

I got interested in this topic because I have a big butt. And when I was in high school, I'm a white woman who grew up in the suburbs of Lansing, Michigan. And when I was in high school, that felt like, yeah, it's not just something we didn't talk about, but something to be a little bit ashamed of. It felt like kind of the wrong body to have. But then over the last...

I got interested in this topic because I have a big butt. And when I was in high school, I'm a white woman who grew up in the suburbs of Lansing, Michigan. And when I was in high school, that felt like, yeah, it's not just something we didn't talk about, but something to be a little bit ashamed of. It felt like kind of the wrong body to have. But then over the last...

30 years, that felt like it really started to change. And more and more, the kind of body I had became, you know, an ideal of beauty, it's became considered more attractive and more part of the way that we we think of what a beautiful woman's body might look like.

30 years, that felt like it really started to change. And more and more, the kind of body I had became, you know, an ideal of beauty, it's became considered more attractive and more part of the way that we we think of what a beautiful woman's body might look like.

30 years, that felt like it really started to change. And more and more, the kind of body I had became, you know, an ideal of beauty, it's became considered more attractive and more part of the way that we we think of what a beautiful woman's body might look like.

what we talk about in polite conversation was part of what interested me about it because I actually think these things like butts that feel like oh we don't talk about that or that's a little bit too silly to take seriously in those topics we actually can find quite a lot that's interesting in part because we actually don't take it seriously and we don't think it's polite to talk about.