Talk:Placenta

chorion and ???

The article says the chorion is the part of the placenta that is genetically part of the fetus, but it doesn't give the name of the other part, the part that is genetically part of the mother. Adding that, I think, would be an improvement. -- Finlay McWalter 01:17, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Culture?

I've heard from time to time things about what's done with the placenta in various cultures after it is expelled. Could someone who knows about this add some info? Thanks. Deco 03:04, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Some people get rather silly with it. They bury it under a seedling tree or use it to make a placenta print (art, using blood as ink or with regular ink). More practical and very unsqueamish people just cook it up. The Wikibooks Cookbook has placenta recipes. AlbertCahalan 22:16, 23 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I know of people in Indian villages placing the placenta of cows in a box made with palm leaves and hanging them from the branches of banyan trees to protect them from dogs, which they fear might harm the cow or its calf if they get the smell of the placenta. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 04:34, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

another culture

in our culture, as luslim in malaysia we wash clean the placenta and then buried it. what we believed as because it is also part of our baby's life

Abruption of placenta

Reason for the abruption? Risk rate? Prevention? Measures taken after abruption? Period of measures? Risk to baby and mother?