[Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"

[Rena Fail]

Too Too gross. A veritable bacterial  breeding ground.
Rena Fail

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Bob Richmond <rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com> wrote:

> Just when you thought life couldn't get weirder, it does.
>
> I've been hearing scattered tales of women eating their own (actually
> their babies') placentas for years, but I didn't know about "placenta
> encapsulation" until my daughter's college classmate Nancy Redd (she's
> at nancyredd.com) bylined a New York Times story
>
> http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/i-regret-eating-my-placenta/?scp=1&sq=placenta&st=cse
>
> and then got on ABC news this morning.
> http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/eating-placenta-trend-safe-16019081
>
> It seems the pill-'n'-potion culture has come to the rescue, with
> services (they seem to be local operations, no mail-order, probably
> how they slip under the regulatory radar) that for $200 or so will dry
> and grind up your baby's placenta and put it into large gelatin
> capsules. It has to be your own baby's placenta, by the way. Here's a
> graphic demonstration of how it's done
>
> http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/1577334/Placenta_Encapsulation_Instructions_w_Pictures
>
> And here's a FAQ that answers some, but not all questions a pathology
> service might have.
> http://birth-wise.org/faq
>
> They want the placenta refrigerated, or possibly frozen. Formaldehyde
> is prohibited.
>
> Seems to me that this could turn into a major headache for a pathology
> service, and that some conferring with the necessary people in advance
> would be a good idea.
>
> An obvious concern would be bacterial overgrowth.
>
> Eeeeewwww!
>
> Bob Richmond
> Samurai Pathologist
> Knoxville TN
>
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