Course Module

Placenta - Google Doc

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Practice Guidelines Guidance

Online Resources

Needed for completion of module

Placenta Slide Show

Facebook Group

Patricia Edmond’s Facebook Group, The Placenta: A Guide for Examination

Websites

• Infection in Maternal-Fetal Medicine: An Overview : GLOWM

• SCORTCH - Curious Congenital Conundrums Infographics & a podcast (an alternative to TORCH)

• Placental and Cord Anomalies (quiz at end) : Nurses Labs

• About Lotus Birth : Lotus Birth

• Umbilical Cord Burning : A Birth Takes a Village

• Articles on Placentophagy : Placenta Benefits

• Making a Placenta Tincture : Modern Alternative Mama

Videos

Examination of the Placenta

Reproductive Health Library

(15:25)

This video demonstrates the methods for examination of the placenta.

Placenta Examination

Gloria Lemay 

06:43

Healthy, full term placenta features. Gloria Lemay

Umbilical Vessels & the Ductus Venosus

Khan Academy

(12:32)

Watch as fetal blood goes through umbilical vessels and takes a shortcut through the Ductus Venosus to make it back to the heart. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. Created by Rishi Desai. 

Meet the Placenta! | Reproductive System Physiology

Khan Academy

(12:32)

Learn how the needs of the fetus are met by the placenta, which is a special organ that belongs to both the mother and the fetus! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. Created by Rishi Desai.