I donated my placenta, I had a scheduled C-section and while I was in the pre-op room a person came in asking what my plans for my placenta was lol She asked if I wanted to donate it and I immediately agreed. They gave me a free onesie for my baby and 2 months later I got a letter in the mail saying they used it for burn skin grafts. I didnt realize this wasnt normal everywhere.
I like when they tell me a donation got used. I try to donate blood when I can, and they email me when the blood gets used and the hospital it was used at. I think it's good for people to know they can help their community!
I had a placental stem cell injection in my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. Although I know it wasn't stem cells from your placenta that I received, thank you for your precious donation. Another person like you made the same decision to donate the placenta that was harvested for the stem cells that were injected into my knee.
Dermatology tech here! We are using the skin graft material made from human placenta right now for our skin cancer surgery patients. It’s amazing how well they heal!
I had a baby at the end of October this year and donated my placenta. It was a pretty easy process. The hospital had someone come to the labor and delivery room before I gave birth to ask me if I wanted to donate and gather some background to see if I was eligible. Other than that, all that was required of me was a blood sample (taken at the hospital before I delivered) and my signature on the consent forms. I am happy that you included the article on placentas healing burn victims because it’s fascinating to lean more about how donations are positively impacting lives. I didn’t even know that placenta donation was a thing until I was asked about it when I went in to deliver!
They're being used for so many other things as well. I had a placental stem cell injection in my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. Although I know it probably wasn't stem cells from your placenta that I received, thank you for your precious donation. Another person like you made the same decision to donate the placenta that was harvested for the stem cells that were injected into my knee.
That has got to be the best facial reconstruction of a burn victim I have ever seen. The skin looks so healthy, and it seems that she has all the room she needs for facial movement, and (as far as I can see) intact eyelids. Incredible!
I had the same thought! In fact, I couldn’t tell she was a burn victim except for the skin that was grafted on her arm! My first thought when I saw her picture was, my goodness she has beautiful skin! Her recovery was absolutely INCREDIBLE!
I learned about placenta donations two weeks after giving birth and I felt a little peeved that I didn't know about it earlier. I am generally a strong advocate for donating organs, tissue etc to research and medicine and would have been more than happy to donate my placenta, but too little too late I'm afraid.
I had in my (otherwise super bare-bones) birth plan and discussed with l&d nurses multiple times that I really wanted to *see* my placenta. After the birth they still just quietly threw it away... Wish there was more respect and curiosity about this amazing organ in general
I just had a baby and when they were about to draw my blood when i first came in for my scheduled induction, they asked if i wanted to donate my placenta because then theyd need to draw an extra vial. I had never heard of such a thing but immediately agreed because what the heck am i gonna do with the placenta? I don't need it. Better to help others than to let it go into the trash.
The placenta being used for burn victims is so interesting to me. When my mom was a child she was really badly burnt in a houseboat fire and I would love to learn more about donating placenta in the future after I have a kid.
I live about an hr from Dallas, Tx. It took me 16 weeks into my pregnancy to find an OBGYN. Most wont take any that can be 'high' risk. I have to drive a hour to get to my obgyn, but I am very glad to have found her group. I mostly see the midwife or N.P. and they are great. Their office is very busy.
Reusable pads were a life changer for me and any of my friends who tried them. When I first used them it felt like I was wearing a diaper, lol. But after about 3 cycles I never even noticed them. My periods didn’t seem as heavy and the constant itchy feeling I got wearing regular pads was gone. Never having to worry about running out of product was amazing 😻
@@gabriellef3351 Langsprint reusable pads. They have 3 different sizes. I recommend soaking them for a few hours after use and pre washing the with soap before throwing in your hamper. They can end up smelling like death if too much stuff is left on them.
@Mama_Bear524 I only discovered them as I was desperate. I'm unable to wear tampons and regular pads felt like sandpaper against my skin towards the end of my cycle. I wish I would have known about them sooner too. I'm hoping as people are more open about talking about this kind of stuff the word will get out more. Plus they are environmentally friendly, so yeah for the planet
I switched to reusable underwear 3 months ago and my periods are WAY lighter,I used to bleed through ultra tampons in an hour but with Thinx underwear it lasts 12 hours and they are super comfortable. I switched when I heard that most of tampons and pads have toxic chemicals
I was a recipient of a placenta based bandage contact. I have a condition called Keratoconus where my cornea starts to cone out. Last fall I had a silicone ring segment into my left eye to help reduce the cone. Due to other health issues the implant segment began rejecting. When my eye surgeon noticed they placed the placenta bandage contact in my eye with my permission. I was completely ok and amazed that it was possible. I see an eye surgeon at a large teaching hospital and was told that most specialist haven't used the bandage contact yet. It did hurt to place and remove due to the ridged ring that helped it hold its shape and stay put. After a few minutes I didn't feel it on my eye at all. The contact stayed in place for 2 weeks until the doctor took it out. It did not end up helping my situation and 2 weeks later I ended up with the segment ring removed. Just the fact that its possible to use placenta to heal is absolutely amazing to me .This was just February 2024.
@@MoonWomanStudios For me I have found solutions to help however some people do not find out in time and require cornea transplants. With my surgeries my vision has improved drastically. I will say I'm one of the lucky ones because improved vision isn't the goal for the surgeries but if it happens then Its an added benefit. I'm also very fortunate to be referred to the doctor I had. I cannot give enough gratitude to the Medical University of South Carolina and Storm Eye at MUSC for my treatment.
@@soda_fairy You're welcome! I live in a home with medical professionals that did not realize the placenta based contact was a possibility so It brought us some education. Really cool advancements honestly!
I wish more people were informed about options for donating their placenta/cord. I work on a wound care journal, and the products made from these are amazing at promoting healing for all kinds of wounds, including burns, but the products are still super expensive and somewhat difficult to get insurance approval for, at least in part because the supplies, so to speak, are not that abundantly available. But seriously such a cool innovation in health care!
@@LilMsTraciIt was changed back in 2006 and it didn’t even meet its own threshold when it was passed, only making 58% of the vote for the ballot. It’s really quite frustrating but it shows how hard they’ve worked since 2000 to make Florida weaker in democratic processes.
Careful what you wish for. You feel entitled to an exception because you disagree with this end result, but you'd be outraged if they gave an exception that resulted in something you disagree with
Most of my loved ones are in Florida. When I saw that it didn't pass, I cried. When I saw it only didn't pass because it had to be 60% of the vote, I got so mad that I didn't know what to do with myself. It's crazy to me that that's even allowed to happen.
Not quite related to this video, but I would love a video specifically about all of the increased risks pregnant people incur during pregnancy that I can share with non-child bearing people who don't believe pregnancy is risky or that the only dangerous part is birth. Thanks!
Even if the only risk was birth, I took EMT training and was told there were 5 actual emergency events 3 of the 5 are related to birth. My blood pressure rose by 20 points while pregnant. It took 9 years for it to return to my normal. My sister has high blood pressure since being pregnant. I also was extremely sick and couldn't eat if not for anti nausea meds I would have died. If people who have been pregnant discuss their issues openly maybe those who haven't been pregnant will understand. Although it might scare some people off lol.
Same! I love my cup. I swapped to the disc for the first couple days since it's good for a heavier flow on days I'm working without indoor plumbing. I could not manage my period with disposable products.
I prefer discs, they're better suited to my anatomy, but otherwise agree. Do I think they're right for everyone? No. But tampons and pads were not right for me and I'm glad to have had options.
I mean, could doctors and hospitals add a question to maternity intakes that says, "what would you like to do with the placenta? Would you like it to go to medical research? Of course, then the researchers would have to have a system set up.
That's what I was thinking too, it's very common for researchers to to have ongoing relationships with nearby hospitals to get tissue samples (several labs at my university get stuff from the nearby medical centers), so hypothetically whatever consent forms and procedures they have set up to collect other tissue samples could just be adapted for placentas?
The nurse asked if I wanted to donate my placenta and I said sure, whatever helps people. She seemed pleasantly surprised. I was confused because I thought everyone would donate theirs. It’s not like I needed it. But she said getting donors was not that easy…😢
It's amazing what the placental stem cells were able to do for the burn victim. She looked beautiful in the current photo of her, you'd never guessed she'd suffered from something so horrible. I hope this becomes more widespread treatment for burn victims.
Nebraskan here, I know so many people who voted for both measures because they thought they were both pro-choice. The confusion was the point. There were so many ads that just straight up lied. It's really disappointing. Also cups ftw! Once you understand how to use them and get one that's right for your body they are superior in every way.
Thank you for helping to give me a voice to advocate for the rights of those with a uterus. The fact and medical based information you provide has helped me to have rational discussion and open the minds of others. Please keep up your extremely needed excellent videos. You truly are making a difference, you are helping to change lives, you are giving people a voice, you are helping to right the ship. Now, make sure to take care of yourself, take the breaks you need, be kind to yourself. We, your audience, have your back. ❤❤❤
"Don't send [the placenta] to pathology, just throw it out" I gave birth to my first baby 6 days ago. She started having seizures 3 days after being born. She was transferred to a different hospital than where I gave birth because this NICU is better equipped. It was determined that the seizures are a result of a hematoma in her brain, but why the hematoma formed is still a mystery. The number of doctors here I've heard say "I wish we had your placenta/wish pathology at the other hospital had examined your placenta for any diseases that could have caused this"... Also, absolutely no one (neither the hospital or my ob/gyn) ever brought up the idea of donating my placenta. I didn't know it was a thing. If I had, I absolutely would have donated it for research.
@@jessiec668 I'm so sorry you're having to go through something so scary and stressful. My sister also had her first baby last week and he was full term but needed to spend a few days in the NICU due to excess fluid in his lungs that was giving him some trouble breathing and getting enough oxygen for the first few days. Our whole family was worried even though the problem he had isn't uncommon and almost always resolves on its own, so I can't imagine how much more difficult things are for you and your family right now. I hope your baby recovers quickly so she can come home and be surrounded by people who love her.
I had placental stem cells injected into my knee, which was completely bone-on-bone, no cartilage left at all. I had that injection and, several months later, another stem cell procedure where they drew bone marrow from my hip and harvested stem cells from the marrow. I also had a series of auto-PRP injections that did not include extra stem cells, just the concentrated platelets in enough plasma to act as a carrier. My doctor described the PRP injections as "food for the stem cells" to help them grow even stronger. It was extremely expensive and nothing was covered by insurance at all, but I was in my mid 30's at the time and didn't want a knee replacement. None of the orthopedic surgeons I consulted with were willing to do a replacement on someone that young either; although every single one agreed that my knee was beyond repair and needed to be replaced. That's been almost ten years ago, and I'm still functioning on my own knee. It has its bad days, but I attribute still being able to walk on it at all to the stem cell and PRP treatments. As I said, these procedures were expensive ten years ago and probably not within the means of most middle-class families. For the placental stem cell treatment, about 3/4 of the cost was actually acquiring the stems cells. As my doctor explained it to me, they came from a c-section birth in which the mother donated the placenta for either research or medical treatments, just like organ donation except no one needed to die to make it available. With current research just scratching the surface of the many injuries and diseases that stem cell therapy may be able to treat, placental donation needs to be mainstream, and every healthy mother with a usable placenta should be given the option to donate. I don't think many mothers would say no unless they're planning on keeping it themselves.
Me, my mom and my step dad are all burn victims and burned three different ways. I spilled boiling water on my leg when I was 9, my dad was in a propane explosion at work about a year later. And almost 20 years later my mom got her burns by fire. Another thing from this video that I found interest was placenta donation! I literally received a message today on linked in from a recruited for a job involving placenta donation !
When I gave birth in 2022, I wanted to bank my placenta and umbilical stem cells. In my research, I discovered that they might not help my child if needed (because if she had a genetic condition it would be in her stem cells) and there is a national bank (like organ donation). So, I wanted to donate to the nation back. Turns out my hospital used to do it, but no longer participates. So we went with the private bank because it was better than just chucking it.
One of my dad’s colleagues was testing cancer drugs on human placentas. It had to be done within an hour of delivery. So if someone had previously given permission during their antenatal appointments delivered between 8am and 3pm mon to Friday she dashed to retrieve it. This was in the late 90s
I really like that you keep us up to date with the states in the US even though you're not living here anymore! I appreciate it. It is a scary time to be female in America
In the UK, I read a leaflet about donating my placenta and definitely wanted to. I asked the midwife and she said that if baby arrives during 'business hours' the team could collect it, otherwise it would be thrown out. Now baby didn't adhere to this, what a shame. Next time!
I'm a Florida resident and I was trying to figure out why it needed to be 60% and people just said to make sure it's majority vote and that I don't understand because the vote isn't in my favor... the majority wants abortion rights, and yet it's not enough. That's what I don't understand. Is that so wrong?
2:52 "Tampons are not biodegradable" reminds me of something that happened when I was a teenager absolutely determined to save the world. A commercial for menstrual products came on TV (this was like 1991, TV was all we had) and near the end it mentioned being biodegradable. Me, being annoying and sanctimonious in the way only teenagers with more moral outrage than sense can be, what do I say when I hear that? "No, it's paper, we should be recycling!" (or words to that effect) my dad, who was sitting there with me: 😧🤢
I had a placental stem cell injection into my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. I wrote a longer post about it in a comment.
I used to work at a wound clinic. The stem cell grafts always looked like original skin (for the wounds we treated at least). It was like magic, science is so cool
Trypophobia warning at 13:43 mins, i can take burn wounds but her back made me scream from the holes. I hope shes on the mend, i just held a post it over pics, i loved the new info on placental use for burns. My eds skin needs extra attention with burns. Keep it up Doc!
Years ago, I was given the chance to donate the placenta when my child was born, and I said yes. Unfortunately, I gave birth on the weekend when the receiving entity was closed.
Anecdotally (as someone with ties to the area): I saw a lot of reports from people who either voted for the wrong abortion bill in Nebraska or knew someone who had. There was a lot of confusion just from having both of them exist at the same time, as well as confusing ads and some ads claiming the abortion-friendly bill would allow male partners to demand women get abortions (because the language was inclusive). The anti-choice version also obtained a lot of signatures fraudulently to get on the ballot in the first place. Again, anecdotally, from people who were approached in parking lots and didn’t realize until later that they were lied to regarding the purpose of the petition. “Nebraska Nice” has its limits.
As a Nebraskan who now lives away, I am not surprised. We have a pretty long history of confusing bills on ballots. I have talked to so many people I know during previous elections that had some ballot issue be something they weren't clear on.
Based on the title, I honestly thought this was going to be one of those alt medicine placenta stories (like people who eat their placenta), so I was pleasantly surprised that it's such a cool story with actual evidence-based research to back it up. My kids' second cousin was lost to burn injuries back in 2015 and her family has dedicated their lives to helping burn victims and their families. That such a treatment is being developed is so heartening to hear!
I would've LOVED to donate my placeta and/or cord blood or anything else useful. I had looked into cord blood banking while pregnant and what I learned led me to thinking that donation is a better option all around than private banking, but I kind of fizzled out there and got too busy to look further into setting anything up. If the hospital had asked me / offered a program to donate thru, I would've 100% done it.
The Marshall Project released a report that you might find interesting. Hospitals in Texas, New York, Indiana and other states have been administering various pain relief or anti-anxiety medications during delivery, then reporting their patients to Social Services for testing positive for the drugs the hospital administered, potentially leading to parents losing custody of their children.
I saw magazine articles when I was pregnant 16 years ago about donating or storing your placenta. I looked at the process and both had fees of over $100 and storing had an annual storage fee. The process looked complicated but I asked my dr if he had done it and he said that all the companies he had seen doing that so far were so complicated to work with that he was unwilling to facilitate this. Of course times change, and hopefully this will become an easy process in the future that we can just click a box yes/no to doing this amongst the other questions answered during intake at the hospital for delivery.
Not really related to this but several years ago I severely scalded my foot. All the way down into the muscle in one area. I went to the emergency room. I was in so much obvious pain that they didn't even take down any information before rushing me into a bed and started working on me. Some of the medical staff were worried that I might be in danger of a heart attack or stroke because my BP was so high. The doctor did not and would not give me anything except acetaminophen. He said it was "His personal policy to never administer or prescribe anything stronger than a Tylenol. Never opioids." I spent the night at home screaming and moaning into my fist instead of sleeping. Apparently for at least a while burn pain increases rather than decreases. My brother wanted to take me back to a different ER but I didn't want to get labeled as a drug seeker.
I had a second to third degree burns on my foot and didn't go to the ER. I have a pain meds contract and can't get anything from any other doctor. So I didn't bother. I only went to the doctor for a note for work so I could wear slippers.
Just a thought, but when having a hospital birth, couldn't we simply add some sort of placental donation release form to the intake paperwork? I can't imagine that it would be that complicated for a hospital to institute? I mean, you are already filling out so much paperwork when you get admitted to having a baby, one more page with a tick box and a signature line would be minimal. And I imagine most large hospitals already have some sort of tissue preservation system. Can any hospital staff comment on this?
Hey! I’m an OB nurse. We actually definitely don’t have a tissue preservation system for these kinds of things, we have a system to send things to the pathology lab (in formalin, not something that could be put into anyone’s body or anything) and we have an organ transplant system (run by UNOS I think?) but nothing like this. This would need to be done by an outside company. That would totally be doable , but my understanding is that using placentas for burns is in very early stages- so not many doctors do it yet, it needs a lot more research first, and it’s only used rarely in cases where more tried and true approaches aren’t working. The ones that do use placentas seem to get all the ones they need from the programs they currently have.
Starting in July I will be a medical student in Texas and am no longer looking at going into OB/GYN because of the laws and a lack of understanding of them. I am hoping that during school and training that there is a clear explanation of how the laws work here but as of now I definitely am scared 😬
It was about 18 years ago and I asked if it was possible to donate my placenta, the doctor/midwife/hospital how no idea if it was possible or how to go about it. So while you are right that researchers need to get patients to agree to donate, they also need to be getting doctors/hospitals on board aswell
I use period underwear and other stuff for it, i find them so much more cheap in the long run and it's so much better for the environment as its washable and reusable. i also play sports in a humid environment so they're also great to just avoid swamp bum.
Such interesting stuff! In terms of the most interesting thing aspect, I’ll have to send you some stuff about how my partner’s uncle, who worked at Stanford, developed a technique to stimulate eggs that otherwise wouldn’t mature in older females to have viable children and also to develop stem cells for other uses. Honestly the craziest science shit I’ve read that is actually useful to patients (I do have a PhD, if that helps for context). But on other terms, my dad was a radiologist in Texas and told me that there are pretty much no doctors in the valley anymore because of predatory lawyers that convince people to sue for no good reason. Like this goes back 20 or more years, and nothing to do with current stuff 🤷🏽♀️ Texas is just kinda screwed all around, but I still live here and am a proud born and raised Austinite
13:20 I live in Germany and the clinic where I had both my babies gives the placentas to a medical company. This is actually the default and you have to opt out if you don't want this.
Image all the people who didn't have access to healthcare in their state in the last couple years. Im in North Carolina and the abortion pill literally saved my life. 2 miscarriages back to back. One came with the emergency room and blood transfusion. Second one was earlier and at home with pain meds. Pro choice and pro life people need to come together and find common ground. We are being used for political propaganda. If car wrecks were the issue we wouldn't just outlaw car wrecks. Work together to end unwanted and unplanned pregnancy. Free and easy to access birth control. Comprehensive sex ed across the board in public schools. Men need to be more responsible for where they spill their seed. You don't have to put the "P" in the "V" to get your rocks off
I would have donated my placentas if I knew about that/could have done that. They also need to make the donation process EASY and QUICK. I tried to donate my cord blood. It resulted in about 30-60 minutes of paperwork for the nurses and my husband in the recovery room after my C-section, and after all that...apparently it was declined because they weren't able to collect enough of it. That was time we could have spent bonding as a family instead. Donating CANNOT be like that, or people won't do it.
I’m not sure if you’ll ever read this but how was your journey to becoming an obgyn? I want to go to into the medical field and become some sort of doctor (Like an oncologist or an obgyn) and I’m wondering what it takes to get there, especially considering I only have two years of high school left. Did you have like a 4.0 gpa throughout highschool and premed to even get into medical school? Was a specific year in med school harder than the others? How did you decide on specializing in being an obgyn? How hard was residency?
Great. Now I need to go and stock up on tampons cuz as a woman with PCOS tampons are the best option especially when I’m changing every three/four hours 😔
Also, you have to keep signing a lot of signatures or some documents for the gynecologist for Florida consent even though you’re also an adult and especially a parent even guardian I had a sign with my father as well, even though I’m 22 years old. Everything still same fine. And especially I had to bring my mother also even a doctor appointment next week as well.
They made you get permission from your father and mother??? At 22 years old??? That's beyond insane. 😮 I hope all is well with you and flowers to your parents for being supportive.
while maternal mortality and morbidity review committees are not a post-Dobbs advent, they’re not exactly old. Texas’ was created in 2013. they are normally responsible for a report which is supposed to be accessible to the public. they do look at individual cases, but a medical malpractice review would be conducted by the state board which licenses doctors. their report is supposed to identify trends in the data and identify best practices to improve outcomes. an example of a recommendation they may make is extending maternal Medicaid out for a year or providing grant funding to L&D wards to have crash carts specifically resources for obstetric patients. they may also identify disparities in outcomes for certain groups of patients. so not only is it bad that FL was blocking the publication of the report, it’s worse that they swept the board following the statute they swore to execute on the state’s behalf and probably without pay. the executive is also not alone in messing with the release of such a report. in 2022, Greg Abbott delayed the release of the TX report until after the election and this year he’s barring its release which the legislature-or at least the House-is not going to like one bit.
I had my middle son at home with a midwife. We let all the cord blood go into him before cutting. I buried the placenta in the backyard and planted a rose bush. This was 30 years ago, when hospitals usually just discarded them as "medical waste".
The Nebraska bills were worded very awkwardly and for the fetal viability a lot of people did not like the wording but there were also scare tactics used like in a lot of places with ads saying that anyone could come and tell you to get an abortion
Me and my husband are currently doing research for cord blood. We might keep cord blood and may be donate placenta, but we really doing though research the fact he a surgeon we might have more access knowing where it's going
For everyone wondering why you couldn’t just have the automatic option for the hospital to donate your placenta: it’s because we have nobody to give it to. 😂 Placentas, as human tissue, require extensive testing and processing. Storing them is expensive and they wouldn’t last as long in storage as something artificial. They also require a lot of safety testing first. All of this means that for now, the more conservative options are better for the vast majority of things that placentas COULD be used for. I’m vaguely confused by this article- it seems to say that the patient is now a scrub tech who uses the placenta itself as a graft to heal the c section incision??? I don’t think this is a thing anywhere yet that I’ve heard of.
18:16 YES!! I recently tested positive for pregnancy in an urban area of Texas and can’t get an appointment for an obg to check on baby until, by my estimation, my 13th week. So I’ll be in my second trimester before I get a chance to even have an appointment to confirm.
Florida legislature increased the threshold needed just to keep abortion from passing. Desantis also tried banning all advertising for the abortion measure.
So interesting about placenta donation! The idea of donating it hadn't even crossed my mind. Will see if it's possible to donate mine after giving birth! There's a decent chance it could be used since I'll be giving birth at a teaching hospital.
I wanted to donate my placenta and umbilical cord when I gave birth in September, but sadly my hospital wasn’t one that was able to receive donations. Hopefully it will be an option if and when I have another baby.
the nebraska abortion votes were very confusing. I am from california and vote there but currently live in nebraska since my husband is stationed here. the ads i saw and the yard signs were all very confusing here near omaha. i believe that many voters might have mixed the two up honestly. unless all voters took the time to read through each one or at least find a reliable summary then the resulta cant be representative of what nebraska residents believe
@14:00 - you seem to imply that donor grafts might not be rejected. You can never keep a donor skin graft, it is temporary. You will eventually have to be grafted with your own skin. If you don’t have enough good surface area, they will harvest a donor where you have it, graft what they can, let it heal, and take grafts from that same spot again.
Thank you for this! I was gonna come comment the same thing. For reference to anyone not versed in burn care: what MDJ is referring to is an allograft. Allografts come from cadavers, aka deceased people who have chosen to donate tissue. These grafts will not remain on the patient permanently. They are used to keep wound beds clean and moist until they can heal on their own (only in the case of partial thickness burns where the epidermis is not damaged beyond repair) or can be grafted with autograft. Autografts are skin taken from a patients own body. TW: graphic: Essentially, a surgeon will take a large cheese slicer and cut off large swaths of epidermis which will be placed in machine that meshes it to cover more surface area. If a patient has for instance a 80-90% TBSA, the surgeons will have very little skin to be used as donor and the time between harvesting is long - usually about 2 weeks. I have had patients have their buttocks and even scrotum used as donor in the case of large burns.
@ I was debating whether to add this much detail myself, but was busy grocery shopping, lol. There are a few other products as well, but all are temporary until your own skin can be grafted. I’ve never seen the scrotum used, but definitely the buttocks and scalp. Default is thighs or back if that tissue is viable, mostly because it is large and fairly flat and is hidden by clothing most of the time.
I wanted to donate My placenta I was even given paperwork on it. But it was expensive for me to do so. In order to donate the paperwork that I had to pay a couple thousand dollars.
Some states had billboards up telling people to vote against a bill and saying the bill was for something other than abortion. And some bills so full of double talk they are completely incomprehensible, and it’s done on purpose.
I tried to donate my fraternal twin placentas but I think I just scared the medical team. I had an emergency c section so they had to knock me out and as I was waking up I tried telling them I wanted to donate the placentas. I was probably incoherent but I thought I was clear. They looked soooo uncomfortable and I think I told them something like “don’t worry. I’m not going to eat them. I just want to donate them.” 😂 They had not heard of that, which surprised me and asked me about it but said they didn’t do that at that hospital. I was surprised since I live in a major medical research hub, but I’m sure they were already in medical waste by that time anyway. They did seem to indicate that had we been able to plan ahead we might have been able to find a way, it just wasn’t something they had a system in place to do. It was only a few years ago and one mile away from a world renowned research hospital, a veteran research hospital, and a world class medical college. Additionally I’m fewer than 80 miles from another major research hospital and medical school.
When overturning Roe v. Wade, the right-wing rationale was that abortion should be left to the states. I can't help but wonder what sort of mental gymnastics forced-birth advocates will resort to now that people in many states have taken that "leave it to the states" principle to heart and put abortion rights into their state constitutions… As for Georgia, I won't be surprised if Georgia officials try to keep the reappointment process as opaque as they can instead of transparent. If enough women die in childbirth, the whole "pro-life" rationale starts to fall apart, so keeping mortality information away from the public is in the interests of those who want forced births to be the law. Georgia becomes Gilead, and it sounds like Texas is moving in that direction. Sad.
obligatory reminder that the TX state senator who authored the abortion bounty law and the abortion trigger law, Bryan Hughes, has no children and his new wife is half his age living in neither his district nor Austin. even in rural areas of Texas where there are still hospitals, many of them had already closed their L&D wards prior to Dobbs as cost control measures to try to keep the hospitals open for other patients. to address the healthcare workforce shortage, Texas has over the past decade dumped tons of money into creating new medical schools, nursing schools, and residency programs (trying to get to a 1:1.1 ratio of HRI seats to GME slots, currently at a 1:1 ratio) and all state funded residency programs have residents do at least one rotation in a rural area. so this means we basically flushed all that money down the toilet when it comes to prospective OBGYNs and may also affect how many people choose to stay after their residency who are planning to go into primary care-something we’ve set aside specific GME slots for. even though SCOT rules in the Kate Cox case that she was not to receive her abortion in state, they did direct TMB to write guidelines and TMB just… didn’t do that.
Some countries have made Organ Donation default so you have to opt out if you don't want to be a donor. could something similar be done with placenta donation? Or make it a question that is asked when discussing birth plans.
Could you do a video on ovarian cysts? I'm currently in hospital for pain management with a 3.9cm cyst, determined too small to operate on but has been absolute agony.
Oh, babe, I’m so sorry. I’ve had to have surgery for two of those things and its no fun at all. The pain for the first one (hemorrhaged/exploded) was unbearable.
Scary the current pick for HHS and his anti vax options. My wife is a pediatrician of 30 plus years and is depressed about the regression in the the fight against childhood diseases with uneducated skeptics.🙁
For once I'm happy I live in Michigan (I still hate the entire country) our governor was raped in college and had an abortion so she fully supports abortion and I think she was really brave for coming out with that NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DEFEND AN ABORTION AND NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DISCLOSE THAT THEY WERE RAPED
I had surgery on my right big toe in May...still not healed... hardwear must come out. My doctor put me in a study that used foreskin cells to help with healing...it did help but not as well as she had hoped...
I was just listening like a podcast when you said cw for graphic photos but then you said there was a photo of after grafts so i looked and WHAT WAS THE HOLES? Was that in-progress growth or what? Honestly freaky as hell but now i wanna know what that was
It was known that asbestos & benzene were carcinogens, but, those were used in many fields, despite the danger. With PFAS, I feel it's better safe than sorry.
Can you do a video on previous PID and pregnancy? I had unexplained PID earlier this year and want to start trying soon. I know it can make blocked tubes more likely but I don't know if it has more risks during pregnancy as well (? Like another infection being more likely after birth? Or can the scarring be a risk for rupture?) Thank you!!!
I donated my placenta, I had a scheduled C-section and while I was in the pre-op room a person came in asking what my plans for my placenta was lol She asked if I wanted to donate it and I immediately agreed. They gave me a free onesie for my baby and 2 months later I got a letter in the mail saying they used it for burn skin grafts. I didnt realize this wasnt normal everywhere.
I wanted to donate mine, but my hospital doesn't do that
@tracy3418 same. They did package it for private banking, though.
A free onesie is a good trade, and you helped someone with burns bad enough to need skin grafts. Thank you for your donation.
I like when they tell me a donation got used. I try to donate blood when I can, and they email me when the blood gets used and the hospital it was used at. I think it's good for people to know they can help their community!
I had a placental stem cell injection in my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. Although I know it wasn't stem cells from your placenta that I received, thank you for your precious donation. Another person like you made the same decision to donate the placenta that was harvested for the stem cells that were injected into my knee.
Dermatology tech here! We are using the skin graft material made from human placenta right now for our skin cancer surgery patients. It’s amazing how well they heal!
Maybe it's the blood flow, since the placenta kept so much blood in it, it stayed a lot better than the less blood flow stuff
Amazing
@@lovelysakurapetalsytMaybe stem cells as well?
We donated our daughters umbilical cord and placenta and they told us that it actually went to help treat a child cancer patient that day, incredible
I had a baby at the end of October this year and donated my placenta. It was a pretty easy process. The hospital had someone come to the labor and delivery room before I gave birth to ask me if I wanted to donate and gather some background to see if I was eligible. Other than that, all that was required of me was a blood sample (taken at the hospital before I delivered) and my signature on the consent forms.
I am happy that you included the article on placentas healing burn victims because it’s fascinating to lean more about how donations are positively impacting lives. I didn’t even know that placenta donation was a thing until I was asked about it when I went in to deliver!
They're being used for so many other things as well.
I had a placental stem cell injection in my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. Although I know it probably wasn't stem cells from your placenta that I received, thank you for your precious donation. Another person like you made the same decision to donate the placenta that was harvested for the stem cells that were injected into my knee.
That has got to be the best facial reconstruction of a burn victim I have ever seen. The skin looks so healthy, and it seems that she has all the room she needs for facial movement, and (as far as I can see) intact eyelids. Incredible!
I had the same thought! In fact, I couldn’t tell she was a burn victim except for the skin that was grafted on her arm! My first thought when I saw her picture was, my goodness she has beautiful skin! Her recovery was absolutely INCREDIBLE!
I learned about placenta donations two weeks after giving birth and I felt a little peeved that I didn't know about it earlier. I am generally a strong advocate for donating organs, tissue etc to research and medicine and would have been more than happy to donate my placenta, but too little too late I'm afraid.
Same.
I had in my (otherwise super bare-bones) birth plan and discussed with l&d nurses multiple times that I really wanted to *see* my placenta. After the birth they still just quietly threw it away... Wish there was more respect and curiosity about this amazing organ in general
I just had a baby and when they were about to draw my blood when i first came in for my scheduled induction, they asked if i wanted to donate my placenta because then theyd need to draw an extra vial. I had never heard of such a thing but immediately agreed because what the heck am i gonna do with the placenta? I don't need it. Better to help others than to let it go into the trash.
The placenta being used for burn victims is so interesting to me. When my mom was a child she was really badly burnt in a houseboat fire and I would love to learn more about donating placenta in the future after I have a kid.
I live about an hr from Dallas, Tx. It took me 16 weeks into my pregnancy to find an OBGYN. Most wont take any that can be 'high' risk. I have to drive a hour to get to my obgyn, but I am very glad to have found her group. I mostly see the midwife or N.P. and they are great. Their office is very busy.
Reusable pads were a life changer for me and any of my friends who tried them. When I first used them it felt like I was wearing a diaper, lol. But after about 3 cycles I never even noticed them. My periods didn’t seem as heavy and the constant itchy feeling I got wearing regular pads was gone. Never having to worry about running out of product was amazing 😻
What brand do you use?
@@gabriellef3351 Langsprint reusable pads. They have 3 different sizes. I recommend soaking them for a few hours after use and pre washing the with soap before throwing in your hamper. They can end up smelling like death if too much stuff is left on them.
I love my reusable pads and I’m annoyed I only discovered this possibility a few years ago. They’re so much more comfortable too.
@Mama_Bear524 I only discovered them as I was desperate. I'm unable to wear tampons and regular pads felt like sandpaper against my skin towards the end of my cycle. I wish I would have known about them sooner too. I'm hoping as people are more open about talking about this kind of stuff the word will get out more. Plus they are environmentally friendly, so yeah for the planet
I switched to reusable underwear 3 months ago and my periods are WAY lighter,I used to bleed through ultra tampons in an hour but with Thinx underwear it lasts 12 hours and they are super comfortable.
I switched when I heard that most of tampons and pads have toxic chemicals
I was a recipient of a placenta based bandage contact. I have a condition called Keratoconus where my cornea starts to cone out. Last fall I had a silicone ring segment into my left eye to help reduce the cone. Due to other health issues the implant segment began rejecting. When my eye surgeon noticed they placed the placenta bandage contact in my eye with my permission. I was completely ok and amazed that it was possible. I see an eye surgeon at a large teaching hospital and was told that most specialist haven't used the bandage contact yet. It did hurt to place and remove due to the ridged ring that helped it hold its shape and stay put. After a few minutes I didn't feel it on my eye at all. The contact stayed in place for 2 weeks until the doctor took it out. It did not end up helping my situation and 2 weeks later I ended up with the segment ring removed. Just the fact that its possible to use placenta to heal is absolutely amazing to me .This was just February 2024.
Wow thanks for sharing, that’s incredible!
That's fantastic! Thank you for the information, and I hope you find a solution for your eye.
@@MoonWomanStudios For me I have found solutions to help however some people do not find out in time and require cornea transplants. With my surgeries my vision has improved drastically. I will say I'm one of the lucky ones because improved vision isn't the goal for the surgeries but if it happens then Its an added benefit. I'm also very fortunate to be referred to the doctor I had. I cannot give enough gratitude to the Medical University of South Carolina and Storm Eye at MUSC for my treatment.
@@soda_fairy You're welcome! I live in a home with medical professionals that did not realize the placenta based contact was a possibility so It brought us some education. Really cool advancements honestly!
I read about this same thing being used for recurrent corneal erosion syndrome, which I have! So amazing that drs can do this!
I wish more people were informed about options for donating their placenta/cord. I work on a wound care journal, and the products made from these are amazing at promoting healing for all kinds of wounds, including burns, but the products are still super expensive and somewhat difficult to get insurance approval for, at least in part because the supplies, so to speak, are not that abundantly available. But seriously such a cool innovation in health care!
If 59% of people voted for it, it should have passed. 60% is a ridiculously high standard.
They voted to change it to 60%. They put the same thing on the ballot here in Ohio thankfully it was rejected.
It was intentionally changed for this very reason. They tried to do the same in AZ and thankfully it didn't pass.
@@LilMsTraciIt was changed back in 2006 and it didn’t even meet its own threshold when it was passed, only making 58% of the vote for the ballot. It’s really quite frustrating but it shows how hard they’ve worked since 2000 to make Florida weaker in democratic processes.
Careful what you wish for. You feel entitled to an exception because you disagree with this end result, but you'd be outraged if they gave an exception that resulted in something you disagree with
Most of my loved ones are in Florida. When I saw that it didn't pass, I cried. When I saw it only didn't pass because it had to be 60% of the vote, I got so mad that I didn't know what to do with myself. It's crazy to me that that's even allowed to happen.
Not quite related to this video, but I would love a video specifically about all of the increased risks pregnant people incur during pregnancy that I can share with non-child bearing people who don't believe pregnancy is risky or that the only dangerous part is birth. Thanks!
I second this recommendation
Even if the only risk was birth, I took EMT training and was told there were 5 actual emergency events 3 of the 5 are related to birth. My blood pressure rose by 20 points while pregnant. It took 9 years for it to return to my normal. My sister has high blood pressure since being pregnant. I also was extremely sick and couldn't eat if not for anti nausea meds I would have died. If people who have been pregnant discuss their issues openly maybe those who haven't been pregnant will understand. Although it might scare some people off lol.
Ive used a cup for a little over 10 years. Game changer for me, definitely a learning curve but I wouldn't go back.
Same! I love my cup. I swapped to the disc for the first couple days since it's good for a heavier flow on days I'm working without indoor plumbing.
I could not manage my period with disposable products.
You are smart and it's shocking more women haven't done the same a long time ago.
I prefer discs, they're better suited to my anatomy, but otherwise agree. Do I think they're right for everyone? No. But tampons and pads were not right for me and I'm glad to have had options.
I couldn’t figure the cup out but then again I couldn’t do tampons either. But I use reusable pads and it’s awesome
I mean, could doctors and hospitals add a question to maternity intakes that says, "what would you like to do with the placenta? Would you like it to go to medical research?
Of course, then the researchers would have to have a system set up.
That's what I was thinking too, it's very common for researchers to to have ongoing relationships with nearby hospitals to get tissue samples (several labs at my university get stuff from the nearby medical centers), so hypothetically whatever consent forms and procedures they have set up to collect other tissue samples could just be adapted for placentas?
The nurse asked if I wanted to donate my placenta and I said sure, whatever helps people. She seemed pleasantly surprised. I was confused because I thought everyone would donate theirs. It’s not like I needed it. But she said getting donors was not that easy…😢
It's amazing what the placental stem cells were able to do for the burn victim. She looked beautiful in the current photo of her, you'd never guessed she'd suffered from something so horrible. I hope this becomes more widespread treatment for burn victims.
Nebraskan here, I know so many people who voted for both measures because they thought they were both pro-choice. The confusion was the point. There were so many ads that just straight up lied. It's really disappointing.
Also cups ftw! Once you understand how to use them and get one that's right for your body they are superior in every way.
Why does my home state keep doing that? I can't remember any election in Nebraska that didn't involve at least one head-scratcher of a bill.
Fellow Nebraskan as well. I was definitely confused AF, but I tried my best to choose the the pro-life one.
Thank you for helping to give me a voice to advocate for the rights of those with a uterus. The fact and medical based information you provide has helped me to have rational discussion and open the minds of others. Please keep up your extremely needed excellent videos. You truly are making a difference, you are helping to change lives, you are giving people a voice, you are helping to right the ship.
Now, make sure to take care of yourself, take the breaks you need, be kind to yourself. We, your audience, have your back. ❤❤❤
"Don't send [the placenta] to pathology, just throw it out"
I gave birth to my first baby 6 days ago. She started having seizures 3 days after being born. She was transferred to a different hospital than where I gave birth because this NICU is better equipped. It was determined that the seizures are a result of a hematoma in her brain, but why the hematoma formed is still a mystery. The number of doctors here I've heard say "I wish we had your placenta/wish pathology at the other hospital had examined your placenta for any diseases that could have caused this"...
Also, absolutely no one (neither the hospital or my ob/gyn) ever brought up the idea of donating my placenta. I didn't know it was a thing. If I had, I absolutely would have donated it for research.
@@jessiec668 I'm so sorry you're having to go through something so scary and stressful. My sister also had her first baby last week and he was full term but needed to spend a few days in the NICU due to excess fluid in his lungs that was giving him some trouble breathing and getting enough oxygen for the first few days. Our whole family was worried even though the problem he had isn't uncommon and almost always resolves on its own, so I can't imagine how much more difficult things are for you and your family right now. I hope your baby recovers quickly so she can come home and be surrounded by people who love her.
I had placental stem cells injected into my knee, which was completely bone-on-bone, no cartilage left at all. I had that injection and, several months later, another stem cell procedure where they drew bone marrow from my hip and harvested stem cells from the marrow. I also had a series of auto-PRP injections that did not include extra stem cells, just the concentrated platelets in enough plasma to act as a carrier. My doctor described the PRP injections as "food for the stem cells" to help them grow even stronger.
It was extremely expensive and nothing was covered by insurance at all, but I was in my mid 30's at the time and didn't want a knee replacement. None of the orthopedic surgeons I consulted with were willing to do a replacement on someone that young either; although every single one agreed that my knee was beyond repair and needed to be replaced. That's been almost ten years ago, and I'm still functioning on my own knee. It has its bad days, but I attribute still being able to walk on it at all to the stem cell and PRP treatments.
As I said, these procedures were expensive ten years ago and probably not within the means of most middle-class families. For the placental stem cell treatment, about 3/4 of the cost was actually acquiring the stems cells. As my doctor explained it to me, they came from a c-section birth in which the mother donated the placenta for either research or medical treatments, just like organ donation except no one needed to die to make it available. With current research just scratching the surface of the many injuries and diseases that stem cell therapy may be able to treat, placental donation needs to be mainstream, and every healthy mother with a usable placenta should be given the option to donate. I don't think many mothers would say no unless they're planning on keeping it themselves.
Me, my mom and my step dad are all burn victims and burned three different ways. I spilled boiling water on my leg when I was 9, my dad was in a propane explosion at work about a year later. And almost 20 years later my mom got her burns by fire.
Another thing from this video that I found interest was placenta donation! I literally received a message today on linked in from a recruited for a job involving placenta donation !
When I gave birth in 2022, I wanted to bank my placenta and umbilical stem cells. In my research, I discovered that they might not help my child if needed (because if she had a genetic condition it would be in her stem cells) and there is a national bank (like organ donation). So, I wanted to donate to the nation back. Turns out my hospital used to do it, but no longer participates. So we went with the private bank because it was better than just chucking it.
One of my dad’s colleagues was testing cancer drugs on human placentas. It had to be done within an hour of delivery. So if someone had previously given permission during their antenatal appointments delivered between 8am and 3pm mon to Friday she dashed to retrieve it. This was in the late 90s
I really like that you keep us up to date with the states in the US even though you're not living here anymore! I appreciate it. It is a scary time to be female in America
In the UK, I read a leaflet about donating my placenta and definitely wanted to. I asked the midwife and she said that if baby arrives during 'business hours' the team could collect it, otherwise it would be thrown out. Now baby didn't adhere to this, what a shame. Next time!
I'm a Florida resident and I was trying to figure out why it needed to be 60% and people just said to make sure it's majority vote and that I don't understand because the vote isn't in my favor... the majority wants abortion rights, and yet it's not enough. That's what I don't understand. Is that so wrong?
Nope ... not wrong at all 🎉
2:52 "Tampons are not biodegradable" reminds me of something that happened when I was a teenager absolutely determined to save the world.
A commercial for menstrual products came on TV (this was like 1991, TV was all we had) and near the end it mentioned being biodegradable. Me, being annoying and sanctimonious in the way only teenagers with more moral outrage than sense can be, what do I say when I hear that? "No, it's paper, we should be recycling!" (or words to that effect)
my dad, who was sitting there with me: 😧🤢
I think it's neat that they've found a use for placental tissue.
I had a placental stem cell injection into my knee almost ten years ago, which is the only reason I'm able to walk on it today. I wrote a longer post about it in a comment.
I used to work at a wound clinic. The stem cell grafts always looked like original skin (for the wounds we treated at least). It was like magic, science is so cool
Trypophobia warning at 13:43 mins, i can take burn wounds but her back made me scream from the holes. I hope shes on the mend, i just held a post it over pics, i loved the new info on placental use for burns. My eds skin needs extra attention with burns. Keep it up Doc!
Years ago, I was given the chance to donate the placenta when my child was born, and I said yes. Unfortunately, I gave birth on the weekend when the receiving entity was closed.
Anecdotally (as someone with ties to the area): I saw a lot of reports from people who either voted for the wrong abortion bill in Nebraska or knew someone who had. There was a lot of confusion just from having both of them exist at the same time, as well as confusing ads and some ads claiming the abortion-friendly bill would allow male partners to demand women get abortions (because the language was inclusive).
The anti-choice version also obtained a lot of signatures fraudulently to get on the ballot in the first place. Again, anecdotally, from people who were approached in parking lots and didn’t realize until later that they were lied to regarding the purpose of the petition.
“Nebraska Nice” has its limits.
As a Nebraskan who now lives away, I am not surprised. We have a pretty long history of confusing bills on ballots. I have talked to so many people I know during previous elections that had some ballot issue be something they weren't clear on.
hey, I just want to say I appreciate you covering abortion access news. I don't think corporate media is covering it enough.
Based on the title, I honestly thought this was going to be one of those alt medicine placenta stories (like people who eat their placenta), so I was pleasantly surprised that it's such a cool story with actual evidence-based research to back it up. My kids' second cousin was lost to burn injuries back in 2015 and her family has dedicated their lives to helping burn victims and their families. That such a treatment is being developed is so heartening to hear!
love this survey thanks for sharing- so important to have a way to track how this is affects people and their doctors
I would've LOVED to donate my placeta and/or cord blood or anything else useful. I had looked into cord blood banking while pregnant and what I learned led me to thinking that donation is a better option all around than private banking, but I kind of fizzled out there and got too busy to look further into setting anything up. If the hospital had asked me / offered a program to donate thru, I would've 100% done it.
The Marshall Project released a report that you might find interesting. Hospitals in Texas, New York, Indiana and other states have been administering various pain relief or anti-anxiety medications during delivery, then reporting their patients to Social Services for testing positive for the drugs the hospital administered, potentially leading to parents losing custody of their children.
I saw magazine articles when I was pregnant 16 years ago about donating or storing your placenta. I looked at the process and both had fees of over $100 and storing had an annual storage fee. The process looked complicated but I asked my dr if he had done it and he said that all the companies he had seen doing that so far were so complicated to work with that he was unwilling to facilitate this. Of course times change, and hopefully this will become an easy process in the future that we can just click a box yes/no to doing this amongst the other questions answered during intake at the hospital for delivery.
Not really related to this but several years ago I severely scalded my foot. All the way down into the muscle in one area. I went to the emergency room. I was in so much obvious pain that they didn't even take down any information before rushing me into a bed and started working on me. Some of the medical staff were worried that I might be in danger of a heart attack or stroke because my BP was so high. The doctor did not and would not give me anything except acetaminophen. He said it was "His personal policy to never administer or prescribe anything stronger than a Tylenol. Never opioids." I spent the night at home screaming and moaning into my fist instead of sleeping. Apparently for at least a while burn pain increases rather than decreases. My brother wanted to take me back to a different ER but I didn't want to get labeled as a drug seeker.
I had a second to third degree burns on my foot and didn't go to the ER. I have a pain meds contract and can't get anything from any other doctor. So I didn't bother. I only went to the doctor for a note for work so I could wear slippers.
Just a thought, but when having a hospital birth, couldn't we simply add some sort of placental donation release form to the intake paperwork?
I can't imagine that it would be that complicated for a hospital to institute?
I mean, you are already filling out so much paperwork when you get admitted to having a baby, one more page with a tick box and a signature line would be minimal.
And I imagine most large hospitals already have some sort of tissue preservation system.
Can any hospital staff comment on this?
Hey! I’m an OB nurse. We actually definitely don’t have a tissue preservation system for these kinds of things, we have a system to send things to the pathology lab (in formalin, not something that could be put into anyone’s body or anything) and we have an organ transplant system (run by UNOS I think?) but nothing like this. This would need to be done by an outside company. That would totally be doable , but my understanding is that using placentas for burns is in very early stages- so not many doctors do it yet, it needs a lot more research first, and it’s only used rarely in cases where more tried and true approaches aren’t working. The ones that do use placentas seem to get all the ones they need from the programs they currently have.
Starting in July I will be a medical student in Texas and am no longer looking at going into OB/GYN because of the laws and a lack of understanding of them. I am hoping that during school and training that there is a clear explanation of how the laws work here but as of now I definitely am scared 😬
It was about 18 years ago and I asked if it was possible to donate my placenta, the doctor/midwife/hospital how no idea if it was possible or how to go about it. So while you are right that researchers need to get patients to agree to donate, they also need to be getting doctors/hospitals on board aswell
I love updates like these! Thanks for doing what you do☺️
Really loved the info on burns. Amazing! Thx
I use period underwear and other stuff for it, i find them so much more cheap in the long run and it's so much better for the environment as its washable and reusable. i also play sports in a humid environment so they're also great to just avoid swamp bum.
I just got through my first period using period underwear. I can't imagine ever going back to disposable now.
@AliceinDisneyWorld1125 their great! Honestly I wear them all the time cuz they're just awesome.
Such interesting stuff! In terms of the most interesting thing aspect, I’ll have to send you some stuff about how my partner’s uncle, who worked at Stanford, developed a technique to stimulate eggs that otherwise wouldn’t mature in older females to have viable children and also to develop stem cells for other uses. Honestly the craziest science shit I’ve read that is actually useful to patients (I do have a PhD, if that helps for context). But on other terms, my dad was a radiologist in Texas and told me that there are pretty much no doctors in the valley anymore because of predatory lawyers that convince people to sue for no good reason. Like this goes back 20 or more years, and nothing to do with current stuff 🤷🏽♀️ Texas is just kinda screwed all around, but I still live here and am a proud born and raised Austinite
13:20 I live in Germany and the clinic where I had both my babies gives the placentas to a medical company. This is actually the default and you have to opt out if you don't want this.
Because of this, I looked into placenta donation for my area :) Thanks!
Especially Lee County Florida Fort Myers. I really think it is crazy. There’s a type of bill passed.
I could never get menstrual cups to work for me consistently but when I tried a menstrual disc, my period got so much better and easier.
disc > cup
no cap
Image all the people who didn't have access to healthcare in their state in the last couple years. Im in North Carolina and the abortion pill literally saved my life. 2 miscarriages back to back. One came with the emergency room and blood transfusion. Second one was earlier and at home with pain meds.
Pro choice and pro life people need to come together and find common ground. We are being used for political propaganda. If car wrecks were the issue we wouldn't just outlaw car wrecks. Work together to end unwanted and unplanned pregnancy. Free and easy to access birth control. Comprehensive sex ed across the board in public schools. Men need to be more responsible for where they spill their seed. You don't have to put the "P" in the "V" to get your rocks off
I would have donated my placentas if I knew about that/could have done that. They also need to make the donation process EASY and QUICK. I tried to donate my cord blood. It resulted in about 30-60 minutes of paperwork for the nurses and my husband in the recovery room after my C-section, and after all that...apparently it was declined because they weren't able to collect enough of it. That was time we could have spent bonding as a family instead. Donating CANNOT be like that, or people won't do it.
BRB, looking up how to donate my placenta when I deliver this spring.
Thank you so much for the legal update on reproductive rights ❤
I live in Florida. This is a very disappointing 😢to see the rates of the in the voting election falls are like in the this election.
Same honey, disappointed in the populous right now.
@lunaria8024 I know, right it’s so agreeable
I’m not sure if you’ll ever read this but how was your journey to becoming an obgyn? I want to go to into the medical field and become some sort of doctor (Like an oncologist or an obgyn) and I’m wondering what it takes to get there, especially considering I only have two years of high school left. Did you have like a 4.0 gpa throughout highschool and premed to even get into medical school? Was a specific year in med school harder than the others? How did you decide on specializing in being an obgyn? How hard was residency?
I switched to organic tampons years ago after I read the ingredients list. I never thought to read the ingredient list on the back of the box.
Also, this is very interesting 🤔 studies about this really interesting about the placenta for like skin burn victims
Great. Now I need to go and stock up on tampons cuz as a woman with PCOS tampons are the best option especially when I’m changing every three/four hours 😔
When I had my baby in June, I was asked if I would like to donate and I chose to before of all the won things that it could be used for
Also, you have to keep signing a lot of signatures or some documents for the gynecologist for Florida consent even though you’re also an adult and especially a parent even guardian I had a sign with my father as well, even though I’m 22 years old. Everything still same fine. And especially I had to bring my mother also even a doctor appointment next week as well.
They made you get permission from your father and mother??? At 22 years old??? That's beyond insane. 😮 I hope all is well with you and flowers to your parents for being supportive.
while maternal mortality and morbidity review committees are not a post-Dobbs advent, they’re not exactly old. Texas’ was created in 2013. they are normally responsible for a report which is supposed to be accessible to the public. they do look at individual cases, but a medical malpractice review would be conducted by the state board which licenses doctors. their report is supposed to identify trends in the data and identify best practices to improve outcomes. an example of a recommendation they may make is extending maternal Medicaid out for a year or providing grant funding to L&D wards to have crash carts specifically resources for obstetric patients. they may also identify disparities in outcomes for certain groups of patients. so not only is it bad that FL was blocking the publication of the report, it’s worse that they swept the board following the statute they swore to execute on the state’s behalf and probably without pay. the executive is also not alone in messing with the release of such a report. in 2022, Greg Abbott delayed the release of the TX report until after the election and this year he’s barring its release which the legislature-or at least the House-is not going to like one bit.
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I had my middle son at home with a midwife. We let all the cord blood go into him before cutting. I buried the placenta in the backyard and planted a rose bush.
This was 30 years ago, when hospitals usually just discarded them as "medical waste".
I'm pretty sure I recall signing something to donate my placenta at a Kaiser hospital in California 3 years ago.
Thank you for sharing this information
The Nebraska bills were worded very awkwardly and for the fetal viability a lot of people did not like the wording but there were also scare tactics used like in a lot of places with ads saying that anyone could come and tell you to get an abortion
Me and my husband are currently doing research for cord blood. We might keep cord blood and may be donate placenta, but we really doing though research the fact he a surgeon we might have more access knowing where it's going
For everyone wondering why you couldn’t just have the automatic option for the hospital to donate your placenta: it’s because we have nobody to give it to. 😂 Placentas, as human tissue, require extensive testing and processing. Storing them is expensive and they wouldn’t last as long in storage as something artificial. They also require a lot of safety testing first. All of this means that for now, the more conservative options are better for the vast majority of things that placentas COULD be used for.
I’m vaguely confused by this article- it seems to say that the patient is now a scrub tech who uses the placenta itself as a graft to heal the c section incision??? I don’t think this is a thing anywhere yet that I’ve heard of.
18:16 YES!! I recently tested positive for pregnancy in an urban area of Texas and can’t get an appointment for an obg to check on baby until, by my estimation, my 13th week. So I’ll be in my second trimester before I get a chance to even have an appointment to confirm.
Wtf???? That's sooo stupid... And 0 logic..
@ yes, but there are too few doctors and too many people that need to see one.
@@shadowqueen6395 I am so, so, so sorry.. This is horrible.. 😢
Florida legislature increased the threshold needed just to keep abortion from passing. Desantis also tried banning all advertising for the abortion measure.
So interesting about placenta donation! The idea of donating it hadn't even crossed my mind. Will see if it's possible to donate mine after giving birth! There's a decent chance it could be used since I'll be giving birth at a teaching hospital.
I wanted to donate mine, but my hospital doesn't do that. I couldn't find any way to do so
I live in Florida. This is a very disappointing 😢to see the rates of the in the voting election falls are like in the this election.🗳️
I wanted to donate my placenta and umbilical cord when I gave birth in September, but sadly my hospital wasn’t one that was able to receive donations. Hopefully it will be an option if and when I have another baby.
the nebraska abortion votes were very confusing. I am from california and vote there but currently live in nebraska since my husband is stationed here. the ads i saw and the yard signs were all very confusing here near omaha. i believe that many voters might have mixed the two up honestly. unless all voters took the time to read through each one or at least find a reliable summary then the resulta cant be representative of what nebraska residents believe
@14:00 - you seem to imply that donor grafts might not be rejected. You can never keep a donor skin graft, it is temporary. You will eventually have to be grafted with your own skin. If you don’t have enough good surface area, they will harvest a donor where you have it, graft what they can, let it heal, and take grafts from that same spot again.
Thank you for this! I was gonna come comment the same thing.
For reference to anyone not versed in burn care: what MDJ is referring to is an allograft. Allografts come from cadavers, aka deceased people who have chosen to donate tissue. These grafts will not remain on the patient permanently. They are used to keep wound beds clean and moist until they can heal on their own (only in the case of partial thickness burns where the epidermis is not damaged beyond repair) or can be grafted with autograft.
Autografts are skin taken from a patients own body. TW: graphic: Essentially, a surgeon will take a large cheese slicer and cut off large swaths of epidermis which will be placed in machine that meshes it to cover more surface area. If a patient has for instance a 80-90% TBSA, the surgeons will have very little skin to be used as donor and the time between harvesting is long - usually about 2 weeks. I have had patients have their buttocks and even scrotum used as donor in the case of large burns.
@ I was debating whether to add this much detail myself, but was busy grocery shopping, lol. There are a few other products as well, but all are temporary until your own skin can be grafted.
I’ve never seen the scrotum used, but definitely the buttocks and scalp. Default is thighs or back if that tissue is viable, mostly because it is large and fairly flat and is hidden by clothing most of the time.
I wanted to donate My placenta I was even given paperwork on it. But it was expensive for me to do so. In order to donate the paperwork that I had to pay a couple thousand dollars.
Some states had billboards up telling people to vote against a bill and saying the bill was for something other than abortion. And some bills so full of double talk they are completely incomprehensible, and it’s done on purpose.
My professor is working with a couple buddies studying pain killing properties of placentas
I tried to donate my fraternal twin placentas but I think I just scared the medical team. I had an emergency c section so they had to knock me out and as I was waking up I tried telling them I wanted to donate the placentas. I was probably incoherent but I thought I was clear. They looked soooo uncomfortable and I think I told them something like “don’t worry. I’m not going to eat them. I just want to donate them.” 😂 They had not heard of that, which surprised me and asked me about it but said they didn’t do that at that hospital. I was surprised since I live in a major medical research hub, but I’m sure they were already in medical waste by that time anyway. They did seem to indicate that had we been able to plan ahead we might have been able to find a way, it just wasn’t something they had a system in place to do. It was only a few years ago and one mile away from a world renowned research hospital, a veteran research hospital, and a world class medical college. Additionally I’m fewer than 80 miles from another major research hospital and medical school.
When overturning Roe v. Wade, the right-wing rationale was that abortion should be left to the states. I can't help but wonder what sort of mental gymnastics forced-birth advocates will resort to now that people in many states have taken that "leave it to the states" principle to heart and put abortion rights into their state constitutions… As for Georgia, I won't be surprised if Georgia officials try to keep the reappointment process as opaque as they can instead of transparent. If enough women die in childbirth, the whole "pro-life" rationale starts to fall apart, so keeping mortality information away from the public is in the interests of those who want forced births to be the law. Georgia becomes Gilead, and it sounds like Texas is moving in that direction. Sad.
obligatory reminder that the TX state senator who authored the abortion bounty law and the abortion trigger law, Bryan Hughes, has no children and his new wife is half his age living in neither his district nor Austin. even in rural areas of Texas where there are still hospitals, many of them had already closed their L&D wards prior to Dobbs as cost control measures to try to keep the hospitals open for other patients. to address the healthcare workforce shortage, Texas has over the past decade dumped tons of money into creating new medical schools, nursing schools, and residency programs (trying to get to a 1:1.1 ratio of HRI seats to GME slots, currently at a 1:1 ratio) and all state funded residency programs have residents do at least one rotation in a rural area. so this means we basically flushed all that money down the toilet when it comes to prospective OBGYNs and may also affect how many people choose to stay after their residency who are planning to go into primary care-something we’ve set aside specific GME slots for. even though SCOT rules in the Kate Cox case that she was not to receive her abortion in state, they did direct TMB to write guidelines and TMB just… didn’t do that.
Some countries have made Organ Donation default so you have to opt out if you don't want to be a donor. could something similar be done with placenta donation? Or make it a question that is asked when discussing birth plans.
I would have donated my placenta! I didn't know this was a thing until now. 😢
I couldn’t go this week Wednesday because of because of my menstrual cycle, my period blood 🩸 so they moved it to next week Wednesday
Could you do a video on ovarian cysts? I'm currently in hospital for pain management with a 3.9cm cyst, determined too small to operate on but has been absolute agony.
Oh, babe, I’m so sorry. I’ve had to have surgery for two of those things and its no fun at all. The pain for the first one (hemorrhaged/exploded) was unbearable.
Inwas going to eat my future placenta just for fun but now that i know it can be donated, that's my priority! Thank you
Scary the current pick for HHS and his anti vax options. My wife is a pediatrician of 30 plus years and is depressed about the regression in the the fight against childhood diseases with uneducated skeptics.🙁
OOooo! As someone who works in medical research, wants to have kids soon and won't keep my placenta, I've got some research to do :)
For once I'm happy I live in Michigan (I still hate the entire country) our governor was raped in college and had an abortion so she fully supports abortion and I think she was really brave for coming out with that NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DEFEND AN ABORTION AND NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DISCLOSE THAT THEY WERE RAPED
I’m curious about the use of bovine placenta. I wonder if that would be a potential way to bridge that gap until it’s a more established approach
That's would be a completely different genetic makeup though ... Not sure that would be feasible
I had surgery on my right big toe in May...still not healed... hardwear must come out. My doctor put me in a study that used foreskin cells to help with healing...it did help but not as well as she had hoped...
Do we know if placenta donation is useful in all countries or is there only a few conducting the research? Can patients bring it up?
I was just listening like a podcast when you said cw for graphic photos but then you said there was a photo of after grafts so i looked and WHAT WAS THE HOLES? Was that in-progress growth or what? Honestly freaky as hell but now i wanna know what that was
It was known that asbestos & benzene were carcinogens, but, those were used in many fields, despite the danger. With PFAS, I feel it's better safe than sorry.
Can you do a video on previous PID and pregnancy? I had unexplained PID earlier this year and want to start trying soon. I know it can make blocked tubes more likely but I don't know if it has more risks during pregnancy as well (? Like another infection being more likely after birth? Or can the scarring be a risk for rupture?) Thank you!!!
I wish I’d known about the placenta thing when I had my kids, I would’ve donated if that were an option