Commentary for Niddah 35:11

נמוק הולד עד שלא יצא

and this is so not because a placenta is regarded as a child but because generally there is no placenta without a child in it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From which it is obvious that the uncleanness of the placenta is regarded as a certainty by the majority rule, since most placentas contain embryos. ');">²¹</span> R. Simeon said, The child might have been mashed<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And mixed up with the blood of birth which, representing the greater part of the mixture, neutralizes it. ');">²²</span>

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