Placenta Preparation

Ingestion of the placenta is called Placentophagy. It is practiced by most mammals in the animal world because of its outstanding nutritional benefits including vitamins, minerals, and hormones that a mother’s body needs to recover from pregnancy and birth. The placenta, grown in a woman’s womb and symbiotically integrated into her system, can replenish and revitalize her, giving her the energy and resources she needs for one of the most important experiences of her lifetime: motherhood.

There are many ways to prepare your placenta for ingestion. Placenta encapsulation offers a number of advantages over other modes of ingestion because it preserves the placenta for a mom to benefit from for weeks rather than few days.

Placenta encapsulation involves cleaning, steaming, drying, grinding and encapsulating the placenta. The results vary from each individual, however these are some benefits women have received:

• Faster recovery from pregnancy and birth
• Balances system as a whole
• Replenish depleted iron
• Increase in energy
• Lessen bleeding postnatally
• Been shown to increase milk production
• Helpful in having a happier postpartum period
• May prevent baby blues and postpartum depression
• Hasten return of uterus to pre-pregnancy state
• Helpful during menopause (if save any capsules)

Placenta ingestion eases the postpartum transition for many women and babies.

Beyond this period, the capsules are beneficial for any stressful transition ~ having to leave the baby to go back to work, a job loss in the family, or a big move. Since the capsules also help with fatigue and milk production, they can be taken any time the mother feels worn down or needs to increase her milk supply.