Placenta plans

vamomtobe

Just curious - anyone have any funky plans for their placenta?

amberrmariee20

BrooklynBroussard said:

Not super funky, but I am donating mine!

We don't have an option here where I'm from in Canada, not sure if it's a Canada wide thing or just my area. I want a water birth so damn bad but they don't allow it here, it's strictly 1 hospital and that's it. We have no rights over our placenta either !

vamomtobe

@BrooklynBroussard, I never heard of that before!  But awesome!  What can it be used for?

eat111315

Weird you posted this today. I was listening to npr and they did a report on how Texas just changed their laws to allow women to do what they want with ther placenta in term of keeping it, etc starting in 2016. Only Texas, Oregon, and Haiwaii allow women this right.

I'm not planning on doing anything with mine but the idea that I might not freely have the option never occurred to me. (The woman in the interview had hers smuggled out in a cooler since Texas considers it "medical waste").

Here's the piece in case anyone is interested: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/28/414836758/texas-defends-a-womans-right-to-take-her-placenta-home

rue:D

I didn't know donation was an option. I'm in Texas but had no plans for mine...guess it'll become medical waste!

cbolton19

I have a ton of options for mine, I can take it and do whatever, leave it, bank it, or a doula will pick it up and prepare it (encapsulate, make smoothie cubes, etc.).

@BrooklynBroussard How are you donating it? And do you know what it will be used for? I think that would be an awesome option (assuming they are trying to use it for cloning or anything too sci-fi).

ETA: not sure what I am going to do yet, but I'm glad I have options.

Carmofrap

I get to keep mine since I have it at home. Last time I bought my son a tree and planted it beneath a maple tree. I was a little worried how the poor tree would handle it but honestly it has thrived!!! Which is amazing considering I pretty much completely neglected it that summer, I was so busy with my lil guy.

Carmofrap

For those wondering what a placenta donation is good for! Pretty cool stuff. https://www.unyts.org/services/organ-eye-and-tissue-services/placenta-donation-program/

edit* kind of graphic for those who don't like wounds and surgical things.

Carmofrap

meanwhile in the UK they're busy rubbing placenta all over their face. haha. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1973229/NHS-hospital-sells-placentas-for-cosmetic-use.html soooo not sure if there are laws for that here in the U.S. but I would much rather give my placenta back to the earth (oooh how hippy sounding) than have some rich lady smearing it on her wrinkles.

leighann1

It says only if having a planned C-section? So no donations with vaginal birth?

leighann1

@BrooklynBroussard I wonder why? Although I didn't know donation was a thing until just now, so obviously I am ignorant of the subject.

Carmofrap

@leighann1 this is what birthtissuerecovery.com says

Best results have been obtained from C-section placental tissue, and scheduled surgeries are predictable. We are studying the suitability of vaginal delivery tissue.

vamomtobe

Carmofrap said:

For those wondering what a placenta donation is good for! Pretty cool stuff. https://www.unyts.org/services/organ-eye-and-tissue-services/placenta-donation-program/

edit* kind of graphic for those who don't like wounds and surgical things.

I clicked the link before I read the warning!  Pretty nasty stuff, but amazing!  Go placenta!

vamomtobe

Carmofrap said:

meanwhile in the UK they're busy rubbing placenta all over their face. haha. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1973229/NHS-hospital-sells-placentas-for-cosmetic-use.html soooo not sure if there are laws for that here in the U.S. but I would much rather give my placenta back to the earth (oooh how hippy sounding) than have some rich lady smearing it on her wrinkles.

Oh god that is weird, but at least it's human spare parts instead of rhino horn, bear gall bladder, tiger balls, etc.

VioletandRose

For those of you encapsulating, do hospitals normally charge for "preserving" it or holding onto it, while waiting for someone (a doula) to pick it up?

Chippercjm

I am having a home birth, and might plant it with a tree for our new yard that will grow with us (since it's called the tree of life after all!) I don't like the idea of something that nourished and grew my baby in utero becoming biohazard waste ;(