Okay here is the placenta!

Per Ladybenz's request!
Warning... kinda gross!!!

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg154/c...ka/DSC00547.jpg

 

Okay, it doesn't look like mine did...I still say ID!

 

That is totaly neat! Wish I would of that of photograph'n that. Thanks for sharing.

 

QUOTE(ladybenz @ Apr 25 2008, 04:44 PM) [snapback]739484[/snapback]
Okay, it doesn't look like mine did...I still say ID!


What did your's look like?

 

wow, I would've even thought to take pictures. but at the moment everything was going to fast.

Did you keep it?

 

QUOTE(clkafka @ Apr 25 2008, 04:50 PM) [snapback]739502[/snapback]
What did your's look like?


Mine looked more lopsided--yours is more uniform. It seemed like mine were all cockeyed to each other--the cords came off in completely weird separate directions, and the placentas were kind of rounded away from each other where they joined, if that makes sense.

By the way, I think placentas are really cool. I wish I had photographed mine, but my DH had the camera and went with the babies to the recovery room while I was being stitched (which is when I asked to see the placenta).

 

QUOTE(jasonsmommy @ Apr 25 2008, 12:44 PM) [snapback]739485[/snapback]
That is totaly neat! Wish I would of that of photograph'n that. Thanks for sharing.

I agree. I never thought to ask dh to take a pic of it! Bummer.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. No idea about ID Or Frat. Isn't it possible that they were two sep placentas but fused at some point so they now appear as one? Heard that somewhere.

 

I wish I could have seen what mine looked like. That is pretty cool!

 

Wow, that is so neat! I saw my daughters placenta but not my boys...

 

QUOTE(bday111707 @ Apr 25 2008, 04:53 PM) [snapback]739505[/snapback]
wow, I would've even thought to take pictures. but at the moment everything was going to fast.

Did you keep it?



Heck no! I didn't even want to see it, but I'm glad I did now and I'm glad my dh took a pic of it. It is pretty neat to have. This was my second c-sec and I was alot more relaxed. With my older ds, I didn't even get a pic of me with him at the hospital and we were there for 5 days!!! So, this time we took pics of everything!

Oh, and my dh went back to the OR to get the pic after we were in recovery. He was committed to have a pic! Gotta love men!

 

QUOTE(twoplustwo @ Apr 25 2008, 05:30 PM) [snapback]739560[/snapback]
Isn't it possible that they were two sep placentas but fused at some point so they now appear as one? Heard that somewhere.


Yep! That's what my boys placentas did. There is absolutely no doubt that my boys are fraternal, but the placentas were fused together.

 

You know I have had 5 kids, and I think that is the first time I have ever seen a placenta! Cool!

 

Beautiful! It really is an amazing organ. The only mammalian organ grown in adulthood with an expiration date. I'm fascinated by the whole concept of it growing, how the exchange works, etc.

We saved the twins' placenta for my other kids to look at the next day. The cord insertion points were right next to each other (maybe 1 inch apart). We buried it in our yard with a tiny baby who I miscarried at 3 months more than a year before the twins were born. It seeemed like a rich, bountiful and cushey place for a fetus to rest.

 

Wow, that is pretty cool! Just looking at your girls on your siggy ticker I would say they are identical.

I had a fused placenta with my twins. They are obviously fraternal since they are a boy girl combo.

 

OP- you are wondering if your's are ID?

Well.. they are! A. from Placenta and B. from pic in your signature!!

post more pics pls!!

 

WOW!!! that is crazy and cool....I have never seen a placenta before. Now i need to go ask DH is he took a look at mine!

 

Cool. I never got to see ours. I'm glad you posted this.

 

I am totally fascinated by placentas, I look up pictures of them online, my sister thinks there is something wrong with me! :FIFblush:
I wish that I had a picture of mine! You are very lucky, that is SO cool!!

It does look identical, not fused.

 

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!

 

WOW!

 

Awesome! thanks for sharing the pics...I wish I had a pic of mine to see how they were arranged (cords) and whether it looked more ID or fused.

 

Wow, that's so neat! I wasn't going to look but I'm happy I did. I thought it'd be grosser. :blush:

 

I never saw mine( but then again, I was feeling pretty good from the drugs, so I am pretty sure I would have had no idea what they are talking about) and DH said that he was never asked to see it...but that is pretty cool. Something that fed our babies for 9 months....

 

that was the coolest pic!

 

WOW!!! I cant believe how HUGE that is. And to think I was carrying something that size (but in 2 spots) WITH the twins in there too. No wonder we are uncomfortable!

 

WOW! That's amazing!

I'm jealous! I never even thought to look at my placenta with either of my pregnancies.

 

that is very cool!!!

We should get this linked to expecting forum so some more of us think of taking a cool pic like this!!

 

that is gross....bet it is also way to cool. i wish i have seen my kids placenta. i have never seen one before. awww that is such a good pic to have though. so that is what they lived in for how many months lol.awesome....