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Placenta Cells For All?
Whether or not to bank your baby’s cord blood is the latest decision put to expectant parents as pregnancy and birth become increasingly technically complicated. On the one hand, many sick children have been successfully treated through stem cell transplants from siblings’ cord blood. On the other, cord blood collection and banking can be a...
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Would You Like Some Placenta With That?
After Chrissy Schilling had her first baby last week, her twin sister Kathy cooked up the placenta and they had a feast. They made paninis and pasta and put the photos on Facebook. Mmm... yummy, yummy chewy organs. The practice of placentophagia (eating the placenta) is practiced in many parts of the world, and is said to stem postnatal depressi...
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Placentas Washing Up In American Sewer
A public health administrator in Illinois, USA, is asking that whoever is dumping fresh born plancentas into the local sewage system to, you know, stop it. For the third time, workers at the local water treatment plant found afterbirth caught in a filter designed to keep large foreign objects (including human organs!) out of the treatment facili...
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Birth Organs Gone Wild: Placenta Prints
An acquaintance of mine — she's given birth four times -- hands over her babies' umbilical cords to her mother. Nana then waits for inspiration, shapes the cords accordingly and allows them to dry. Then she mounts them for wall hanging. And, you know, hangs them.Me? I'm attached to my organs up to and through their practical...
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