Placenta Encapsulation

"What if someone told you that they made a single supplement that could prevent postpartum depression, made sure you had plenty of breast milk for your new baby, hurried you along the post-birth healing process, gave you plenty of energy, built back your blood supply and iron count, and gave you and your baby just the right nutritional and hormonal support for the first month after birth? Would you be interested? Well, nearly every new mother can have the opportunity to experience a great postpartum, by using one simple resource. The placenta."

Jennifer West, LM,CPM, The Natural Healing Power of the Placenta

When I first heard the words, "Placenta Encapsulation," the only thing I could even imagine was someone's placenta somehow encapsulated in a plexiglass frame, hanging on a wall somewhere! The thought that it might refer to a placenta transformed into powder and placed into gelatin capsules for new mothers to take for postpartum strength and energy, was not even in the realm of my imagination!

Then, while at a seminar with midwife Jennifer West, I saw the light! Jennifer has been a homebirth midwife for over twenty years. Throughout those years, many women taught her about the miracles of ingesting their placentas after birth. Her new book, The Healing Power of the Placenta; Feeling, Healing and Dealing with the Postpartum Experience, is a book that all expectant parents should read.

As placenta ingestion becomes more mainstream and less-unconventional, all mothers, whether they experience a hospital, birth center or homebirth, can reap the benefits of ingesting their own placenta. Half of the supplements are used at birth and the other half is saved for menopause. It truly is the best kept secret to the success of a much better postpartum experience!

"When I first mention to anyone that I'm going to ingest my placenta their first reaction is always, 'No, that's gross!' But as I continue to talk to them about why I'm doing this, the conversation always ends with, 'I wish someone had told me about this when I was giving birth."

Shauna R

Placenta Encapsulation available upon request.
Fee: $200