PLACENTA CONSUMPTION
The benefits of encapsulating your placenta include increased energy and hormone regulation. It can help balance hormones and increase energy levels after childbirth, as well as improve milk production. Additionally, it provides natural pain relief, replenishment of lost energy, stores, and nourishment. It also helps reduce the symptoms of postpartum depression and anxiety. The placenta contains high levels of nutrients and hormones that may help speed up postpartum healing, reduce inflammation, and provide iron to a mother who has lost blood in labor.
Benefits of placenta encapsulation have not been proven by research, but anecdotal information from mothers have claimed that ingestion of the placenta can aid in:
- Lactation by helping to increase milk production (the placenta contains prolactin)
- Postpartum mood disorders or baby blues (the placenta contains CRH)
- Pain relief
- Anemia through increased iron levels (the placenta contains hemoglobin)
- Fatigue through increased energy levels (the placenta contains TSH-Thyroid Stimulating Hormone)
- Sleep cycles
- Reducing bleeding and returning the uterus to its original size
- Providing immunity (presence of immune factors)
Some moms who have worked with me reported feeling a change within minutes. They experienced increased lactation, better mood, more energy, less after pains, sounder sleep, and less bleeding.