Placenta Wha?

Are any of you guys the kind of people that would encapsulate your placenta and take it as pills after birth? If you are, tell me who you are so we can be friends!

If you're not--its okay....I won't be offended by the weird faces you might make at me if you read the rest of this post, or that you're already making.


I first heard of placenta encapulation on another mama's blog that I follow and love and became super interested. I am all for natural remedies and anything that will help with post partum health.

Then we got pregnant and I was for sure that I'd definitley do this. Months went by and I totally forgot about it until my girlfriend brought it up in conversation one night and I was like AH OH YEAH! I'm 30 weeks pregnant, I need to find someone to do this!

So, I found a woman the only woman who does placenta encapsulation in Olympia and called her. She was super sweet and right up my alley. She is super passionate about placentas. It was awesome. Who knew someone like her existed?

So how does it work?
She'll come get the placenta at the birth center after Copelynn enters the world and then return it in capsule pill form the next day.  THAT'S QUICK! WOOHOO!

Then you take 3 pills, 3 times a day--9 total a day.  Until you run out. She said that depending on the size your placenta you get 90-120 pills.


So why would I do this?
Because the benefits are incredible! And it's a pill--you would never be able to tell it from any other vitamin if you didn't know what it was.

This is from Diksha's website:

The placenta is loaded with a variety of natural hormones and is a source of iron, protein, and more which have shown to help with:

 

increase in general energy

contracting the uterus

minimizing postpartum bleeding

decreasing likelihood of iron deficiency

quicker return to health after birth

faster healing from any birth-trauma

Increasing production of breast milk

decreasing likelihood of baby blues and postpartum 

 

 

Before Zach and I made the final decision to have this done, we wanted to get some real live feedback from people who'd done it before. So, like any modern person, i posted someone on facebook asking for people's thoughts that had actually done it. And WOW, that got a lot of feedback...hardly any of it was from people who'd actually done it or had someone useful to say, but it was pretty comical.  I expected the kinda comments people made though; thats what happens when you throw something out there so "controversial" or "new" or "not normal" right?

 

We didn't really get anything solid from that so I talked to my midwife about it and she said they see their patients do it all the time and she's never heard a mom say they regretted it or it wasn't worth it or it didn't help.

 

I guess I won't have anything to compare it to, so I won't be able to say "yeah it helped so much verses not doing it" but when Copelynn arrives and Diksha does her thing with my placenta, I'll keep ya in the loop!