Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Now We Have To Wait For The Disgusting Placenta.”
“Now we have to wait for the disgusting placenta.” -OB to mother immediately after the birth of the baby.
What a… disgusting… comment.
I rather liked my placenta when it came out. The one side looked like a bunch of large garnets clumped together in a sort of glistening, wet geode; the other side looked like a liver or other generic animal organ that had been painted with a particularly beautiful tree image. Nothing disgusting about that.
OTOH, I freely admit that the most disappointing part about having had my first baby by c-section was that, because it had to be done under general anaesthesia, I couldn’t get a look at my organs while they were stitching my various pieces and parts back up. I mean, how many times will I get to see my own guts? It was a once in a lifetime opportunity (I hope), and now I’ll never get to see my guts that way. What a pity.
Why would anybody who found body parts and/or organs disgusting want to be a surgeon, anyway? I don’t get it.
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Hey, Doc? Is “disgusting” a medical term? You know, the way we’ve heard about anterior placentas and low-lying placentas, there are also disgusting placentas?
*eyeroll*
BTW, I’ve already said on here that I thought the placenta felt disgusting when my body ejected it. But I’m not a medical professional and I wouldn’t refer to anyone else’s placenta the same way. Did the OB think she’d push it out faster if s/he repulsed her?
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Who is this dr? My husband doesn’t like the placenta and would call it disgusting, but he’s a very squeamish guy and would say that about anything slimy. I put this OB right up there with the ones who don’t like children. What did you think you were getting into when you went to med school?
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Hmmm, I have a print of my last son’s placenta on the inside surface of my belly cast and it is kinda cool. I home birthed him and said placenta is still hanging out in my freezer until we plant it.
I really don’t get why it would be viewed as disgusting though.
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Huh, last time I checked, plaentas were pretty friggin miraculous and amazing. I’m still pissed that I was too into the new babes to ask to see them in my hospital births!
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I cherished my placenta after the birth of my second daughter and allowed it to continue its work by nourishing me during my postpartum period by making it into placenta capsules. Now I help other women benefit from their amazing placentas!
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Sorry, I submitted it on accident there.
I was saying that my placenta was very calcified and clotty when my son was born at 31 weeks, it was failing and it was a good thing my water broke and he was born when he was but my doctor did not call my placenta disgusting. He thought it was pretty interesting though.
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I’m a midwife, every time I deliver the placenta and inspect it I make sure to admire it out loud to the mom! “Look at this placenta you made, I can see that you ate well and took good care of yourself and your baby. This fed and breathed for your baby for NINE MONTHS! Good job!” A lot of the time they’ll then want to see it and I do a little show-and-tell style education.
Gross placenta… please.
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…That makes me think of one of those doctors who have on the gloves, over other gloves, over a gown over pants and booties, with a mask and shield… all to catch a baby via normal birth. ‘Careful you might get some on you’
VS. my Midwife who was squatting over me in some sort of yoga pose (so I could birth how I was comfortable) wearing jeans, a t-shirt, sneakers and a simple pair of gloves…
My friend ended up with a transfer and her midwife actually laughed at the doctor when he came in like that, said something like ‘oh! well look at you all dressed up’
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Sheva Reply:
June 5th, 2010 at 9:06 pm (Quote)
The eye shields crack me up. I mean, I hear where they’re coming from, and I understand the need – if you make a mom lay in the dead beetle (did I get that right?) position, you’re setting yourself up for a faceful. Leave her to birth comfortably, and all you’ll need is a pair of gloves, if that – there’s always the option of letting mom catch her baby, or letting baby slide onto the bed. *gasp* I know, right?? Chickens.
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Placentas are beautiful, their shape, their purpose, their simplicity and complexity at the same time…
And how unprofessional! And rude! Presumably doc has seen placentas before. If he still can’t stomach it he is in the wrong department. A desk job, maybe?
BTW, being rude to a patient is officially not illegal, but it is unethical. I love learning new stuff!
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I have 2 Points to make on this one.
1) Doctor – IMMEDIATELY after the birth of the baby ALL comments need to be positive comments about the baby, the mother, the father, Attention must be on the baby. Anything else is unacceptable!
2) Disgusting is not the proper word, but Ladies -Did you notice he said WAIT? I can’t believe 20 people posted and nobody noticed the WAIT! That means no cord traction. Yeah!!!!!
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He might have said the word “wait” and still been pulling on the cord.. You still have to “wait” for it to come out unless you reach your hand up inside and manually remove it.
I wish she would’ve said “Oh, I fully intended to cook and consume my placenta later so please put it in a medical bag in the fridge directly after inspection”.. I wonder if he’d have fainted.
I know several women who cook and eat or dry and consume their placentas.
Disgusting, no way.. It’s a placenta, it is amazing and we are actually biologically supposed to eat it unless it is ill.
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Sarah Dorrance-Minch Reply:
June 7th, 2010 at 3:59 pm (Quote)
Me! Me! Planning on doing that this time around. (I was turned off by Kassandra’s placenta for some reason – it smelled oddish – but then, I spent the first eight months of that pregnancy living downwind of a place where coal was refined into coke, and I think what was grossing me out were the toxins I’d absorbed while living there).
Since placenta is supposed to be very similar in taste to liver, except maybe a little sweeter, I was thinking of sauteeing it in butter, garlic, basil, and oregano, and serving it up with fava beans.
Red wine gives me migraines, though, so no Chianti. Maybe a glass of Tokay.
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try seriously amazing… that an organ inside your body can produce another organ for the purpose of nourising another human being… simply amazing…not disgusting…
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Disclaimer: I have a ton of respect for the placenta as an Encapsulation Specialist and having consumed my own.
Perhaps it was sort of like an ice-breaker–under the assumption that the parents would find it disgusting (as many or most people do), maybe the OB thought that it would make it less creepy and that they would feel okay about thinking it was disgusting??? I mean, all possibilities exist…right?
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I thought mine was awesome and wish that I had had the forethought to ask to take it home with me. My L&D nurse, a sweet older lady named Ruby, showed it to me and pointed out all the parts. She made sure to say that not only was it one of the biggest placentae she’d ever seen but that it looked perfect and had one of the most beautiful “trees” she’d ever seen. I love her and wrote her a stellar letter after leaving the hospital.
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That “disgusting placenta” kept that baby alive & nourished for the past 9 months buddy. You should be worshiping it and saving it to show the mama just how amazing that organ is. “Disgusting placenta”…come on!
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