Talk:Placenta

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Another culture

In our culture, as a Muslim in Malaysia, we wash and clean the placenta, then bury it. We believe that the placenta plays a part in 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?

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This is very rare. In the unlikely event that it happens, you have serious problems. Why it happens:

40% of cases linked to high blood pressure or preeclampsia
physical trauma (car accident, severe beating, fall from ladder)
smoking
pitocin-induced labor
twin has been born, and maybe nursing
entanglement of the cord

Prevention: Don't be a smoker with high blood pressure who gets in a car crash. Don't induce labor.

If it happens and the baby isn't about to be delivered, treat for shock and get to a hospital. Probably you'll get a cesarean.

Risk of the abruption is that the mother bleeds to death and the baby goes without oxygen. Probably the baby can bleed to death too. Risk of the measures (cesarean) is of course the normal: infection or bleeding, resulting in loss of the uterus or death.

Do remember that all this is highly unlikely.

AlbertCahalan 05:52, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC) ela13 tinydukes gang

It's not that rare. [[1]] quotes a risk of 1 in 200, with a foetal death rate of 20% The incidence in pre-eclampsia is 4%. Incidence in induced labour is nowhere near 4%, except when in the pre-eclamptic mother (which may well be a reason for induction) bignoter 14:21, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Cotyledon

The maternal side is pictured but not named. I was going to add a disambiguation at cotyledon "for materal side of placenta, see" that points here, but there's nothing here.

Clarification: parent or fetus?

The introduction should make clearer whether the placenta is an organ of the pregnant parent, or of the fetus. That's what I came here to find out, and the introduction does not make that clear to me, as a lay person. The article uses the phrase fetal organ, but does not define that, which leaves it feeling ambiguous as to whether it means an organ for a fetus or an organ of a fetus. nhinchey (talk) 16:03, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]