OK, this is too funny. I swear I got this message concerning my last post. I wonder what triggered it? Are ca**ibals now a protected minori*y?
"This email has violated the R-AC-IAL DIS-CRIMI_NATION. and Quarantine entire message has been taken on 3/28/2012 1:36:10 PM. Message details: Server: BCHEXEG Sender: (deleted) Recipient: rsrichm...@gmail.com;histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Subject: RE: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation" -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of O'Donnell, Bill Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:33 PM To: Bob Richmond; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation" Now THAT"S NATURAL CHILDBIRTH! In my 30 years of histology, I have had two such requests. (Interestingly, one was about ten years ago - must have been an early adopter) Risk management has a much bigger headache than I do, I just deliver it to their department, they get it to the patient. Question for histonetters - Is this cannibalism? One of the questions I was never allowed to ask at an interview "What is your feeling about cannibalism?" Maybe I may allowed to ask it now. - Just having some fun, I do not advocate cannibalism, and I am sorry if I offeneded any cannibals (in the vein of redneck lent thread) - Bill -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Richmond Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:18 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] "placenta encapsulation" Just when you thought life couldn't get weirder, it does. I've been hearing scattered tales of women eating their own (actually their babies') placentas for years, but I didn't know about "placenta encapsulation" until my daughter's college classmate Nancy Redd (she's at nancyredd.com) bylined a New York Times story http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/i-regret-eating-my-placent a/?scp=1&sq=placenta&st=cse and then got on ABC news this morning. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/eating-placenta-trend-safe-16019081 It seems the pill-'n'-potion culture has come to the rescue, with services (they seem to be local operations, no mail-order, probably how they slip under the regulatory radar) that for $200 or so will dry and grind up your baby's placenta and put it into large gelatin capsules. It has to be your own baby's placenta, by the way. Here's a graphic demonstration of how it's done http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/1577334/Placenta_Encapsulation_Inst ructions_w_Pictures And here's a FAQ that answers some, but not all questions a pathology service might have. http://birth-wise.org/faq They want the placenta refrigerated, or possibly frozen. Formaldehyde is prohibited. Seems to me that this could turn into a major headache for a pathology service, and that some conferring with the necessary people in advance would be a good idea. An obvious concern would be bacterial overgrowth. Eeeeewwww! Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet