Ant 228 Assignment : The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down : A Hmong Child

and need to be hospitalized. One reason for this is that a baby may become

When the baby is still in the womb nobody can tell what it’s going to

Umbilical cord blood has many potential usages, yet mothers don’t know about it. Instead of using the umbilical cord blood, doctors usually just dispose of it. What mothers don’t have the knowledge of is that

option to eliminate their pregnancy, they were forced with the burden to keep the baby even if it

After fermentation process is complete, the pieces of placenta are strained out. A placenta tincture has an almost indefinite shelf-life if stored properly and can be used many years down the road for hormone stabilization and energy and to relieve menopausal symptoms and/or the first postpartum menstrual cycle. If the child was a girl both the mother and daughter of the placenta owner can use and benefit from the tincture. In a smaller usage amount, the tincture can also be used for teething baby, during times of transition, stress, and to boost the immune

When the babies are tossed off the shrine they are caught in the street by a stretched out bed sheet. It was believed that if the infant had medical problems or dying, then praying and giving an offering by tossing the baby the child would be healed. People who practice this tradition believe it

The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall and allows nutrient uptake (Carter 2012). Placental functions differ in different types of mammals (Castelvecchi 2009). For example, the placenta found in a human provides more extensive support to its offspring because of the amount of time the fetus must remain in the womb to completely develop. The placenta provides oxygen and nutrients to the growing fetus and is able to remove waste products found in the fetal blood (Castelvecchi 2009). Placentas can also provide thermo-regulation to the fetus along with waste elimination. Connections made directly to the mother’s blood supply provide the fetus with necessary gas exchange (Carter 2012). The placenta has the ability to fight off any internal infection by providing hormones that protect the pregnancy and support fetal

When preparing for delivery, I assume pregnant women are usually excited, anxious and ready to bring a new life into the world. After labor and delivery, most women want to make sure their child is healthy and are ready to obtain some rest. The placenta is an organ that develops in the uterus that provides nourishment to the child and is the only organ that is shared between 2 people. Afterward, the placenta is sent for testing, thrown away or will be incinerated depending on the hospital’s policy. It is not considered natural to keep the placenta after delivery, even though the majority of non-human mammals eat their placenta for after birth benefits. placentophagy is the practice of ingesting the placenta. This practice is widely accepted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been documented as early as 1578.There are multiple ways of ingesting the placenta including raw, cooking it and pill capsulation. Just like any meat, the placenta has to

Sorry no personal experience here. Theoretically, it is believed that the placenta contains at least half dozen hormones and other natural substances that help the body to recover from birth. I read articles mentioning that it is supposed to help boost milk supply and iron levels, gently wean the mom off pregnancy hormones, and speed up healing. Sadly it’s a truth that placenta capsule suppliers are making medical claims that have not been scientifically proven. But many experienced moms vouch for it and reaped the benefits of placenta encapsulation. I hope someone more experienced joins the discussion soon. I wish you a healthy pregnancy

Placenta encapsulation is the practice of ingesting the placenta after it has been dehydrated, ground, and placed into capsules. Placentophagia is the process of a new mother consuming her placenta postpartum by either eating the placenta raw, cooked, in capsule form or drinking the juices from the it once it’s been cooked.

maternal figure early on in life. After 4 months some of the babies were able to

After a controversial accident in the 1960s, it was discovered that placenta not only could deliver nourishing nutrients but also harmful substances that can defect the fetus. Caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine are substances that easily pass the placenta and can affect the fetus more than the mother (Hunter par 8). Researchers have found that the last stage of labor took nearly twice as long for women who smoke than women who do not smoke (Hunter par 16). Women have claimed that eating their placenta has led to a reduction of fatigue, a more balanced mood, and also an increase in breast milk production. In some cultures, people bury their placenta and plant a tree over it, calling it “the tree of life” (Wan par 3). Various cultures treat placenta as another child that contains its own spirit.

A child is born everyday and without realizing it, the material that is routinely discarded after the birth could one day be life saving for that person, someone else in the family, or even a complete stranger. This material is the umbilical cord, and the blood contained within their vessels.

For many years , in fact, it was believed that the baby in the uterus was completely insulated form all outside influences, but now we know that is not entirely true. Environmental influences ranging from radioactivity and stress in the outside world to drugs, chemicals, hormones, and viruses in the mother's bloodstream can affect prenatal development. Even though the placenta acts as a filter, keeping the blood of the mother and the fetus from mixing, a number of potentially dangerous substances can pass through it. And, of course, if the

Artificial wombs are used to grow a human fetus outside a woman’s body. The scientific term for artificial wombs is ectogenesis. The term ectogenesis was created by British scientist J.B.S. Haldane. Haldane predicted that by 2074 only 30 percent of births would be human births (Istvan). Thus, 70 percent of the births in the world would be by ectogenesis. Since technology is advancing rapidly ectogenesis may even develop before the year 2074. In the 1990s, Japanese investigators succeeded in maintaining goat fetuses for weeks in a machine containing artificial amniotic fluid (Warmflash). The process of ectogenesis