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To eat your placenta or not to eat your Placenta?

June 21, 2012 · Filed under postpartum care, Pregnancy, Uncategorized · Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

So to eat your placenta or not eat your placenta that is the question?

If your grossed out.   Well i don’t blame you.   The thing kinda looks like some alien brain meat or something.  And being mostly vegan.   The idea of eating that thing is like no thank you.. i can’t even touch raw meat.. so yeah.

So how did this idea even come to me?  Well i was talking too my sister on the phone about birth ect.  And she asked me what i was going to do with my placenta?  I asked her what i could do.. and she was like some hippies like plant it or even weirder eat it.   Once she said that i was very interested.. really people eat it?   Mmmm this set me off on an investigation.

To eat my placenta or not to eat my placenta?  Didn’t know it was an option.

I was amazed at what i found!

Benefits of Placenta Encapsulation

( to read more in-depth about it click link above ) 

*  Decreased risk of postpartum depression.

*  Reduced risk of postpartum anemia.

*  Increase in breast milk production.

*  Reduction in postpartum bleeding.

*  Pain relief, and faster healing.

I live in Seattle and i was shocked at how many doulas and services there are to do this.. its kinda crazy awesome..  If the idea of having this thing made into a shake or baked into something is like too much.   Well encapsulation is a great option!  Nothin gross about popping a pill is my thought.

Here is a directory in the USA of who does it!

I decided to go with a lovely woman named Heather.  I really liked her website and her own personal experience with consuming hers.

So how does this whole thing go down.

 After i give birth to my placenta.   I have it placed in a ziplock bag and we toss into the fridge!

Making the placenta into pills!
Here is the quote from her website of the process:
“I follows the Traditional Chinese Method of Placenta Encapsulation.  I will steam your placenta with lemon, ginger, and jalapeño, all of which are thought to be warming to the mother’s body postpartum.  I will then thinly slice the placenta, and dehydrate them into jerky strips.  Once it is completely dehydrated, I will grind the strips into a powder and fill them into vegetarian gel capsules.  The capsules will be stored in a glass amber jar that I provide.  On average, a placenta will make between 80-150 capsules when completed.”
Pretty cool huh.
Then you just take the pills daily to recover.
 I will report back how it all goes.
So when asked to eat your placenta or not to eat your Placenta?
My answer is YES!

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