• Question: Do you ever find it disturbing having to deal with umbilical cords that recently used to have a baby attached to the other end of it?

    Asked by geewhizz97 to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Dalya Soond

      Dalya Soond answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I’ve never worked with umbilical cords, but I imagine you just get used to it.

    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Not at all. They are cold (because we keep them in the fridge) and they are covered in blood but they get washed and cleaned and look like skin when we process them. That they were attached to a baby at the other end doen’t matter either. We were all attched at the other end at one point!

      And I have two kids so I’ve seen it “live” a couple of times

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Thankfully, I do not have to deal with anything like this in physics!

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      Not in computer science, but I imagine after a while you get used to it!

      Remember, some people eat the placenta and umbilical cord after birth…

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I do not work with umbilical cords which I’m very glad of because I think that would freak me out a little bit!

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