[Histonet] Re: "placenta encapsulation"

Wed Mar 28 21:09:34 CDT 2012

When I had my first baby, someone from the lab where I had been working until just before then arrived to collect the placenta, having asked my permission beforehand. He seemed pretty pleased about it.

Lesley.

On 03-28-2012, at 6:40 PM, Caroline Miller wrote:

> Well....I am 6 months pregnant, and was planning on taking a pot of formalin and a few blades into the delivery suite to get some of my placenta.......I am in real need of a good CD31 and CD34 control! 
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> We all give our bodies to this - right ;P
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> Caroline
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> On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Caroline Miller wrote:
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>>> From: "Bartlett, Jeanine (CDC/OID/NCEZID)" <jqb7 <@t> cdc.gov>
>>> Date: March 28, 2012 10:41:50 PDT
>>> To: "O'Donnell, Bill" <billodonnell <@t> catholichealth.net>, Bob Richmond <rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com>, "histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
>>> Subject: RE: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"
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>>> I thought it was an early April Fool's Day joke......
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>>> Subject: RE: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"
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>>> OK, this is too funny. I swear I got this message concerning my last post. I wonder what triggered it? Are ca**ibals now a protected minori*y?
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>>> Subject: RE: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"
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>>> Now THAT"S NATURAL CHILDBIRTH!
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>>> In my 30 years of histology, I have had two such requests.
>>> (Interestingly, one was about ten years ago - must have been an early
>>> adopter) 
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>>> Risk management has a much bigger headache than I do, I just deliver it to their department, they get it to the patient. 
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>>> Question for histonetters - Is this cannibalism? One of the questions I was never allowed to ask at an interview "What is your feeling about cannibalism?" Maybe I may allowed to ask it now. - Just having some fun, I do not advocate cannibalism, and I am sorry if I offeneded any cannibals (in the vein of redneck lent thread) - Bill
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>>> Subject: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"
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>>> Just when you thought life couldn't get weirder, it does.
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>>> 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-placent
>>> a/?scp=1&sq=placenta&st=cse
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>>> and then got on ABC news this morning.
>>> http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/eating-placenta-trend-safe-16019081
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>>> 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_Inst
>>> ructions_w_Pictures
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>>> And here's a FAQ that answers some, but not all questions a pathology service might have.
>>> http://birth-wise.org/faq
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>>> They want the placenta refrigerated, or possibly frozen. Formaldehyde is prohibited.
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>>> 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.
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>>> An obvious concern would be bacterial overgrowth.
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>>> Eeeeewwww!
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>>> Bob Richmond
>>> Samurai Pathologist
>>> Knoxville TN
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