Hi, I have 2 kids 15 & 12. No pathology lab had a chance to see either placenta. I was in school when my son was born and I snagged the placenta to bring to Cobleskill because the students needed a full term placenta for cutting experience (histotechs cut placentas sometimes ... hehe). I still have the slides and blocks. My mother-in-law asked what the red bag I was lugging around was. The ensuing look of shock was the funniest thing ever. "There's something wrong with him!" she said to my wife. Her response was "You don't know the half of it." A few years later when my daughter was born, I snagged her placenta as well, since (as deranged as this may sound) I didn't want to overlook her. I have her slides & blocks as well. This time the OB/GYN wanted to look over my shoulder while I was preparing the samples. She wanted to see how we make the membrane rolls. Some folks have baby pictures from the hospital. I got that and then some!
Amos Brooks Message: 24 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:58:07 -0700 From: "Laurie Colbert" <laurie.colb...@huntingtonhospital.com> Subject: [Histonet] Returning Placentas to Patients To: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: < 57be698966d5c54eae8612e8941d7683070ba...@exchange3.huntingtonhospital.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For those of you who work at hospitals that will let patients take their placentas home, I have a question. Do you ever see these placentas - are they sent to Pathology for exam before being returned to the patient or is the placenta given directly to the patient in L&D? Laurie Colberta _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet