The headline to this story is Placenta Teddy Bear: Meaningful or Just Gross? I vote for Just Gross and, yes, that's it to the right. All together now - EW!I asked MacDad if he sneaked a look at MacBaby's nine-month source of nourishment. He said no. So, really, I have no idea what happened to it after they took it out.
But, I will use this opportunity to plug (ha) cord blood donation. Unless you're planning on privately banking your cord blood, there really is no down side to donating. The only difference in your delivery is that the nurse collected an extra couple vials of blood before I delivered. If your child needs the marrow before it is donating, he or she will receive it.
The organization I donated to called after MacBaby was born to let me know that my umbilical cord supplied an ample amount of material to work with. We will find out if any child in need ever receives it. In the meantime, I will not be getting any tattoos in case MacBaby#2 comes along and I donate a second time.
3 comments:
Yeah that's gross.
Totally.
We opted to delay cord cutting until it had finished pulsing, otherwise we would have donated cord blood too.
That's a good thing to do too.
BTW - apparently MacDad DID see the placenta but didn't want to tell me so he didn't freak me out any more than necessary. Funny the stuff you find out eight months later. . .
My doula kindly took a picture of my placenta for me (I'd totally seen it already though). Yeah, that picture got deleted for posterity's sake!
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