The Placenta for Postpartum Healing

Today, approximately 80% of women experience some level of postpartum depression. Using the placenta for its medicinal properties during the postpartum period is a natural & healthier way you can help avoid these symptoms and the costly treatments that usually accompany them, such as medications and counseling.

 

The placenta's hormonal make-up is completely unique to the mother. No prescription, vitamin or herbal supplement can do what one placenta pill can.

 

The theory is you are replacing the hormones you lost during the birthing process. Each woman's placenta is unique to her hormonal make-up.

Benefits of Placenta Capsules

The placenta has amazing abilities during the postpartum period; it can heal, sustain, and strengthen.

Traditionally Placenta Capsules are used to help:
     - balance your hormones
     - enhance milk supply
     - increase your energy.

Placenta Capsules may also help:
     - You to recover more quickly from birth
     - To bring the body back into balance
     - Prevent the "baby blues"
     - Shorten postpartum bleeding
     - Assist the uterus to return to size
     - Increase postpartum iron levels

The role of the placenta does not stop at birth, so do not let your placenta go to waste...Encapsulate!

Research on placentophagy is still in its infancy, although there is a large body of research beginning to develop on postpartum hormone fluctuations and health. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a study that focused on CRH (Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone). CRH is a stress reducer, and is generally produced by the hypothalamus. During the last trimester of pregnancy, the placenta secretes so much CRH that the levels in the bloodstream increase threefold. However, it was also discovered that postpartum women have lower than average levels of CRH, triggering depressive symptoms.(1) They concluded that the placenta secreted so much CRH that the hypothalamus stopped producing it. Once the placenta was born, it took some time for the hypothalamus to get the signal that the CRH levels were low, and to begin producing it again. This is just another sign that there is likely a biological cause for the baby blues, directly related to hormone levels.

 

I follow strict OSHA & EPA guidelines during the preparation of your placenta.  All materials used are thoroughly sterilized between each use, when not disposable, and everything meets food grade standards. Aside from the medicinal aspects, I treat the placenta as sacred, and will focus on honoring the work it has done to nourish your baby, while preparing it to continue its work nourishing you. 

 

The encapsulation process can be done at your home or mine.  I will pick up the placenta within a day or two of birth and return it within 48 hours.

 

The placenta is rinsed, steamed, dehydrated, ground, put into capsules and bottled with instructions.

 

Herbs such as St. Johns Wart, Red Raspberry Leaf, Mothers Milk Tea and Blessed Thistle can be added upon request.

 

The cost for the encapsulation is $125.00