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Midwife's Policy Clashes with Hospital's
Jeanette Breen, a registered nurse and midwife who delivered babies at the Nassau University Medical Center in New York for more than 10 years, is fighting the hospital's withdrawal of her privileges following her removal of a placenta from the hospital. The patient gave Breen permission to take the placenta and dispose of it in a way she considered more humane than the hospital's, which treats placentas, in accordance with state law, as medical waste. 'The baby and the placenta are really part of the mother's body and should be treated with respect, rather than merely discarded as a blood or infectious agent,' said Breen.
According to MaryAnne Laffin, president of the New York State Association of Licensed Midwives, women who deliver with the assistance of midwives often ask hospitals to give them their placentas so that they can dispose of them in their own way. 'Some hospitals have guidelines, some do not,' Laffin said. University Medical Center Hospital's spokeswoman Shelley Lotenberg said that the hospital's policy was to dispose of placentas as medical waste, but that there is an unwritten policy permitting a mother who personally requests that she be allowed to take home her placenta to do so.
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