What you need to know about placenta encapsulation
After three pregnancies and repeated bouts of postpartum depression, Natasha Longridge decided to try something different when her fourth baby was born: She ate her placenta. She?d read that ingesting the organ is thought to ease the baby blues, so with help from her midwife, she learned how to dehydrate and encapsulate it herself. Soon after delivery, she began swallowing four placenta pills a day. The result" ?I?m a believer,? says Longridge, who lives in Spruce Grove, Alta. Her fourth postpartum experience was markedly easier than the previous ones, she says. Today, Longridge runs a home-based placenta encapsulation business.
You spend nine months thinking about delivering your baby. But if you?re like many women, you haven?t given a moment?s thought to your placenta. The Frisbee-size gelatinous organ that sustains life inside the womb is delivered minutes after the baby arrives and is typically considered medical waste. But maybe it shouldn?t be. A growing number of women (including Kim Kardashian) are eating their placentas. Should you" Advocates of the practice, called placentophagy, say it boosts energy, increases milk production and helps with postpartum depression. ?Anything that could help?why wouldn?t you do it"? says Alex Cullen, a first-time mom in Victoria, BC, who began taking four to six placenta pills a day after her son was born last May. Cullen believes the pills kept postpartum depression at bay. She took a break from them about a month a...
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