Last night at the baby class, we heard all about the delivery. I am still worried that the baby won't turn around (put its head down) and therefore, we will have to decide if we want to try and give birth naturally (and maybe have a c-section) or just plan a c-section. I worry about having it naturally with its head in the right place - the head in the wrong place makes it that much worse! The mid-wife said that if the mom wants to, after the baby's head and shoulders have cleared the birth canal, the mom can reach down and bring the baby up to her chest. (Dad could, too, but she recommends (for a variety of reasons) only from the mom's point of view, e.g. behind mom's shoulders and not facing mom head on, if you get what I mean.) I am not sure either of us want to do that!
And we found out we could take the placenta home if we wanted to - I'm definitely not interested in that. Otherwise, the hospital will burn it. Anyone know what happens in the U.S.? We also learned about a variety of other things relating to the process - I definitely feel well informed now.
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Burn it I am shocked! Here I believe that they sell the placenta. I would have loved to have looked at it more then we did. My memory of things right after the birth and during the end of it are very faint. I think you should keep it for a little while at least. But that is just me. I wish I could be there to see it.
Just catching up on your previous pregnancy posts. I'm not totally sure what happened to the placenta (although we did examine it). I think it went to research, but not sure. We did elect to donate the umbilical cord blood. The cord blood is banked (we used a public bank) for kids who might need it to fight diseases: http://www.givcord.org/ You can also pay to have the cord blood privately banked where only your family could use it, but this seemed silly to me.
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