[Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"

[Lesley Weston]

Like I said, it just gets funnier and funnier. And I agree with the Samurai Pathologist about the original post in this thread: Eeeewwwwww!

Lesley.



On 03-28-2012, at 10:40 AM, O'Donnell, Bill wrote:

> 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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> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of
> O'Donnell, Bill
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> To: Bob Richmond; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
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> 
> Now THAT"S NATURAL CHILDBIRTH!
> 
> 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) 
> 
> Risk management has a much bigger headache than I do, I just deliver it
> to their department, they get it to the patient. 
> 
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Bob
> Richmond
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:18 PM
> To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation"
> 
> 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-placent
> a/?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_Inst
> ructions_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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