This was an interesting read

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They made a human placenta on a microscope slide. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/a-human-placenta-the-size-of-a-computer-chip/396257/?utm_source=SFFB

I don't know that this will spark much conversation, but when I came across it, I knew some you would find it interesting.

Hope all your Fathers Days are going well. Ours has been tantrum-fest '15, maybe the afternoon will be better since we'll be hanging out with grandparents...

[fiveohfive]

That's cool - thank you for sharing... I always wondered how choriocarcinoma (placental cancer) could grow and spread so quickly- it makes more sense now.

Eta that makes me sound like a total nerd. Ultrasound techs have to look for placental abnormalities throughout pregnancy and there's a lot of things we see that there's no real etiology for.

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fiveohfive, I didn't think you sounded nerdy, but I'm still kind of glad you explained. I thought you had cancer.