Oregon Placenta

02/24/2020

🤣🍽️👍

02/08/2020

Yep! Accurate!

Yep 🤣

01/13/2020

This is especially common with twin's placenta/s. What information will they obtain by sending your placenta to pathology? Ask the questions and you decide.

*Placentas sent to pathology are no longer safe for consumption.

If the medical staff strongly insists (such as in the case of a complicated birth, a twin birth, or a premature birth) that your placenta be sent to pathology, you have the right to be fully informed as to the reasons for their recommendation.[1] It is their legal responsibility to inform you of why they are recommending this specific procedure and to answer as many questions as you have about their recommendation.

Questions You Could Include:

“Will the medical knowledge obtained potentially change the recommended care for this child?”
or
“Would a piece of the placenta being sent to pathology suffice rather than sending the whole organ?”
or
“Would the medical information desired be able to be obtained by an in-room visual examination or blood test rather than sending the placenta to pathology?”

Again, you have a right to a full explanation of the procedures being recommended and the right to have all of your questions answered to your satisfaction. You are not required to engage in a medical debate as to whether your desires for placental consumption are more important than the reasons the hospital is citing for examination.

You do not need to convince the medical staff of your decision, or even share with them what you intend to do with the placenta. Many mothers simply say that they have “a profoundly-held cultural or religious custom of taking their placenta home with them.”

If the hospital insists on taking your placenta and, after receiving a full explanation on their recommendation, you choose not to accept that procedure, you have (as of this printing) legal rights to ‘informed refusal.’[2]

You have the right to change your mind to refuse the recommended placental examination, even if you already signed a form agreeing to release your placenta. You have the right to receive a copy of your medical records in order to get a second opinion and to keep your placenta with you while you do so.

The bottom line is—you have the right to individualized care that is respectful of your culture, choices, and values.[3]

[1] See O’cathain, A, Thomas, K, Walters, Sj, Nicholl, J & Kirkham, M. “Women’s Perceptions of Informed Choice in Maternity Care”, I, Vol. 18, 2002 pp. 136-144.
[2] See Goldberg, H. “Informed Decision Making in Maternity Care”, Journal of Perinatal Education, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2008 pp 32-40.
[3] Unless the issue is vaccinations. In many states Americans have lost the right to bodily autonomy and informed consent or refusal as of 2016.

12/28/2019

MotherBirth wins best meme!

Baby Yoda knows the way.

10/03/2019

Just had a baby yesterday! I hadn't heard of placenta encapsulation when I had my last child 11 years ago! I always said I would do it if I had another. My placenta is dehydrating now! Excited to get to experience the benefits of placenta encapsulation for myself!

08/29/2019

Nice reminder as you're waiting for your little ones arrival. 🤰😍👣

It makes us cringe every time we hear a woman say her doctor told her she was 'overdue' because she was 40+1... The average gestation for first-time mothers, who are left to go into labour naturally, is actually 41+1. Your body knows what it is doing Mama!

08/08/2019

Once a placenta is sent to pathology it is no longer safe to be encapsulated or be consumed.

If the medical staff strongly insists (such as in the case of a complicated birth, a twin birth, or a premature birth) that your placenta be sent to pathology, you have the right to be fully informed as to the reasons for their recommendation.[1] It is their legal responsibility to inform you of why they are recommending this specific procedure and to answer as many questions as you have about their recommendation.

Questions You Could Include:

“Will the medical knowledge obtained potentially change the recommended care for this child?”
or
“Would a piece of the placenta being sent to pathology suffice rather than sending the whole organ?”
or
“Would the medical information desired be able to be obtained by an in-room visual examination or blood test rather than sending the placenta to pathology?”

Again, you have a right to a full explanation of the procedures being recommended and the right to have all of your questions answered to your satisfaction. You are not required to engage in a medical debate as to whether your desires for placental consumption are more important than the reasons the hospital is citing for examination.

You do not need to convince the medical staff of your decision, or even share with them what you intend to do with the placenta. Many mothers simply say that they have “a profoundly-held cultural or religious custom of taking their placenta home with them.”

If the hospital insists on taking your placenta and, after receiving a full explanation on their recommendation, you choose not to accept that procedure, you have (as of this printing) legal rights to ‘informed refusal.’[2]

You have the right to change your mind to refuse the recommended placental examination, even if you already signed a form agreeing to release your placenta. You have the right to receive a copy of your medical records in order to get a second opinion and to keep your placenta with you while you do so.

The bottom line is—you have the right to individualized care that is respectful of your culture, choices, and values.[3]

[1] See O’cathain, A, Thomas, K, Walters, Sj, Nicholl, J & Kirkham, M. “Women’s Perceptions of Informed Choice in Maternity Care”, I, Vol. 18, 2002 pp. 136-144.
[2] See Goldberg, H. “Informed Decision Making in Maternity Care”, Journal of Perinatal Education, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2008 pp 32-40.
[3] Unless the issue is vaccinations. In many states Americans have lost the right to bodily autonomy and informed consent or refusal as of 2016.

07/07/2019

🤣Did you tell everyone?
🤫Did you keep it secret?

06/22/2019

Wow!

Oh, the amazing placenta! Here are some fun facts!



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• The s***m is responsible for creating the placenta and umbilical cord. So, technically, the placenta is *his* organ- growing in your body, supporting the baby you both created. How beautiful is that? • A placenta is typically about 1/6th the weight of the baby (1-3 lbs). • A baby can send stem cells through the placenta to heal its mother's organs if they are struggling, including the brain, liver, kidney and lung. The placenta also creates cells to protect the mother’s heart and fend of breast cancer. • The placenta preforms the duties of a lung, liver, kidney and its own endocrine system providing all the hormones for both mama and baby throughout pregnancy.
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06/09/2019

Do you know all the benefits of delayed cord clamping?

Leave the cord attached and let your baby get all their blood! You can still encapsulate! There is no contraindications to delayed cord clamping and placenta encapsulation.

Look at that GORGEOUS juicy cord! Newborn babies only have just over a cup of blood in their entire body (about 270 mL). This is why it’s SO IMPORTANT that we let the cord pulse as long as possible after birth. Learn more: https://www.motherboardbirth.com/vaginal-birth/delayed-cord-clamping

Gorgeous 📸 via Indie Birth Association and we agree 100% with autonomy in the birth space and beyond. KNOW YOUR OPTIONS!!

“Autonomy is not about what the choice IS but a desire and willingness to make one’s own choice!

So, let me repeat that a different way. As a midwife….a mother…a woman…I do not care WHAT you choose (even if you are working with me!) but I can only support women (as a midwife) if they have the NEED and DRIVE to be in charge of their choices. Things like: ultrasound, bloodwork, monitoring, clinical care during pregnancy. I DO NOT CARE what women choose, because I know how unique we all are, and I know with education, research, intuition and inner guidance every woman will choose best for herself. It gets sticky when people make autonomy a dogmatic principle though! That goes directly against the concept, hah.🙂 In other words, feeling like you need/want blood tests or want to hear with a doppler is OK if that is what you want. Not choosing what you want may be worse than anything! It doesn’t matter what I chose to do personally; in my life as a midwife I am here to support a woman’s knowing. (And if her knowing is outside of what I offer; then I can direct her towards more appropriate options and caregivers.)

Autonomy is not about THE CHOICE or doing something you don’t want to do because of what you think people will think; it is purely the self-direction to choose what you want. Does this make sense to you? What has your experience been navigating this?”

05/23/2019

Not much of a cusser but I do talk about placentas all the time!

Guilty 🙋🏻‍♀️
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04/16/2019

Talk to your family, your provided, and WellMama.là

I still don’t get this...it is just mind boggling that screening throughout the postpartum period isn’t required when postpartum depression is the NUMBER ONE complication of childbirth. And that there are SO many hurdles to get this implemented as routine. This is common sense people!

04/12/2019

Did you lose your "princess crown" after baby came? 👑
We need to keep celebrating, recognizing, and appreciating the transition into motherhood?

04/06/2019

What did you end up doing with your cord keepsake?

04/06/2019

Not a service I offer but this is pretty cool!

03/09/2019

The average diameter of a placenta is 22 cm (9 inch) in length; about the size of a plate. After the third stage the uterus reduces in size, but the attachment site wound still takes 4-6 week to heal. Remember to be gentle and supportive to newly postpartum mothers!

03/08/2019

I saw a tee shirt awhile ago that said
Midwives do it in any position! 😂😉

Here's a great example of any position! MamAmor Dolls - Pregnant, Birthing and Breastfeeding Dolls midwife delivering a placenta of a woman on a birth stool!

03/04/2019

Nutrition and the placenta.

PLACENTAL HEALTH /// This temporary organ is one of the least understood miracles of pregnancy. The nutrients your baby receives, stress signals, thyroid hormone levels, and even the (pre-birth) transfer of microbes is dependent upon the placenta.
In my weekly research time, I came across a really interesting review article that explores the current (albeit limited) data on the placenta and how it may play a role in fetal brain development.
I can’t say the article had any directive takeaways that I can pass on to you (like” you need x amount of this nutrient to ensure x”—research is very rarely that clear), but it did help me appreciate just how crucial the placenta is to positive pregnancy outcomes.
From the article: “The placenta is not only a passive supplier of nutrients for the fetal brain but an active brain architect too; by the integration nutrient and prenatal stress signals into chromatin changes at specific gestational time windows; the placenta becomes involved in the structural designs and functional inter-neuronal connections of the developing brain, which may possibly determine the personality and the health status of the fetus and future adult.”
So far our understanding of the placenta is that its function is, at least to some degree, influenced by maternal nutrition. Genetic expression can shift in the placenta in response to poor nutrition (like calorie or protein restriction), which then affects the nutrient transfer/metabolic signals to baby and ultimately impacts brain development.
Reference: doi:10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2019.01.003