Have you ever heard of this? UGH!!!!

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Have you ever heard of this type of request from a patient? I understand that there are a lot of cultural differences here in the US (so no flames please), but this honestly grossed me out. I also think this could have some really bad side effects for the mother's health.:barf01:

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and, to answer another poster, no, I would NEVER serve it to someone else without their knowledge! (I used to joke about making breastmilk cake, breastmilk cookies, etc just because I thought it was so funny that people get so skeeved about MY breastmilk when they drink a COW'S breastmilk everyday!!!

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:lol2::rotfl::cheers:

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Fava beans and a nice Chianti?

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"and how would you like that cooked????"

"will you want that with a side of fava beans and a little fine Chianti??"

Sorry, I just couldn't resist!

Actually, this mother has, under the HR Code 46 of federal law, a right to this placenta....anything, even a hair, or fingernail clipping, cannot be removed from a patient for use in research or disposal purposes, (and many hospitals give/sell this tissue for the developement of cell lines to pharma companies) without their express consent.....

The hospital can be sued for doing this without her knowledge or consent....a placenta is considered a part of a human body....

A case before the supreme court in California recognized that a man who was on chemotherapy at Seattle Harborview for cancer treatment has the right to his own cell line, and any profit made from them....apparently, he was sent to California on several occasions during the course of his treatment to UC for "routine blood sampling" while on the drug....at no time, did his dr. or anyone tell him that the sampling was so that the pharma involved could use his DNA to build a cell line.....he sued and won a HUGE settlement.....

so, this mother was right to request it back.....

whether she buries it or eats it, or pickles it in a jar of formaldehyde, it's still her property!

If you ever want to learn some of pharma's dirty little secrets....just google "tainted cell lines" sometime.....you will be disgusted at what you find.

crni

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i have kept all my four placentas. here in new Zealand the maori people bury them in special woven flax bags or boxes. i have buried three of mine and one is still in the freezer waiting its turn. im not maori, but i like the idea of honoring the whenua, placenta for being babies first home.

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Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

This thread has been great, quite an eye opener! As a midwife, I never thought of the placenta as anything other than something to examine (cold and slimy!uuurgh)

cant imagine actually eating it though, but respect to others who believe in its healing properties! jmo

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Next up, Lotus Births. Everything comes in cycles on this board.

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i getting nauseous just thinking about this, but can anyone say transcultural nursing?

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Next up, Lotus Births. Everything comes in cycles on this board.

Fiona..forgive my not knowing, but what is a lotus birth??

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Fiona..forgive my not knowing, but what is a lotus birth??

here you go, danissa.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Birth

leslie

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Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

Leslie, I know we are going off topic a bit, but encourage others to read this link!

WoW! Extreme to say the least! Don't know if I'd have liked to nurse my three newborns with the rotting placenta attatched! &... The umbilical stump is enough for most daddies to handle during a nappy change, (along with the nappy contents..:lol2:), how would they handle the stinky piece of rotting flesh attatched to their offspring?

just not for me, but i do respect that some folks practice this. But ...jmpo...:trout::barf01::barf01:........The smell of rotting flesh, v's the glorious smell of the newborn?????

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859122/wid/11915773?gt1=10212

Have you ever heard of this type of request from a patient? I understand that there are a lot of cultural differences here in the US (so no flames please), but this honestly grossed me out. I also think this could have some really bad side effects for the mother's health.:barf01:

I just did a presentation at work about the placenta. Try to google "placenta recipes." I think I got 422,000 hits in less than 1/4 second. It is very common.

I work in L&D, and have never known of a patient that actually intended to do this. I don't think I ever could! There are supposed to be many health benefits.

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yes i have heard of both eating it and planting it.

planting it, okay maybe... but eating it, yuck!

pretty gross ...

dealing with gross nursing stuff is one thing, but that is one thing that can send me to the vomitorium...

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