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Other Frequently Asked Questions About Encapsulation:
How do I store my placenta until you pick it up?
Your care provider will put the placenta into either a plastic container or a sealed bag. You will need to put this in a cooler with ice until we pick up the placenta from you.
If your place of birth tells you that the placenta cannot stay in the room with you overnight, please fill your cooler with the placenta inside with ice and store in your car until we arrive in the morning.
I will not be using your transport kit. What type of cooler should I use?
Hospitals provide plastic containers that look like ice cream buckets or lasagna pans to put the placenta in and that is the container that goes into the cooler. You may use a Styrofoam cooler or other container/bag for transport. Baylor Frisco off Warren requires a hard sided cooler which does include the Styrofoam option, however, all other locations in DFW will release a placenta in any container including soft sided coolers, freezer coolers etc. We once even received a placenta container in a purse full of ice. (Please note, coolers used for placenta transport are not returned per safety regulations.)
Don’t have a cooler? No problem. Just put the container the hospital provides into a patient belonging bag and put ice in the bag. Instant cooler!
Can I encapsulate after a Cesarean? What about Meconium?
What if I test positive for GBS during pregnancy?
Yes, how you labor or deliver your baby does not make a difference in terms of the ability to encapsulate your placenta. We can't tell at all how a baby is born when it arrives to us.
Meconium is a normal event in many births and our protocols allow for encapsulation when it is present at birth.
No problem. Testing positive for GBS during pregnancy is not a sign of an active infection. It does not mean you cannot encapsulate.