Placenta Encapsulation
Placenta encapsulation is the practice of ingesting one’s own placenta after birth for improved postpartum psychological, emotional, and physical wellbeing. The most common method of ingesting placenta medicine is having a professional make it into capsules that can be easily swallowed.
What Is Placenta Encapsulation?
The placenta is a complex internal organ that sustains your growing fetus through the exchange of vital nutrients and oxygen and by filtering waste by way of the umbilical cord while you’re pregnant. Placenta encapsulation is the process by which, after you give birth, your whole placenta is processed into pill-form, and these capsules can be taken postpartum.
Placenta encapsulation is one of a variety of ways to consume the placenta postpartum, and it is by far the most common and most popular method chosen by new parents. In fact, among birthing people who eat their placenta, about 70%-80% choose to do so in the form of capsules.
Benefits Of Placenta Encapsulation
✺ Balances Your Hormones
✺ Combats Fatigue
✺ Restores Iron Levels
✺ Increases Your Immunity
✺ Reduces Postpartum Bleeding
✺ Increases Your Energy
✺ Increases Oxytocin & Bonding
✺ Decreases Stress Hormones
✺ Enhances Milk Production
✺ Stabilizes Mood & Emotions
Why Consume Your Placenta
Postpartum individuals almost always experience postpartum fatigue, whether from a long birth or a baby that won’t sleep without being held. This fatigue may be compounded by up to six weeks (and sometimes more) of inconvenient postpartum bleeding.
Shifting hormones may result in a few days of baby blues and mood swings or, for many people, weeks or months of postpartum depression. Many individuals also struggle to build up an adequate milk supply, an obstacle that can be attributed to a number of factors such as a premature or traumatic birth, a cesarean birth, blood loss or formula supplementation.
Almost every mammal ingests their own placenta after giving birth, sometimes even ignoring their young until the placenta has been completely consumed. The big question is why do mammals take the time to do this? Some believe that it is to eradicate the scent of the afterbirth in an effort to avoid attracting scavengers and predators who might be nearby, but if that were the only reason it seems like the safest action might be to move offspring away from the afterbirth as quickly as possible. Probably at least part of the reason mammals take the time to consume their placentas is the fact that they are extremely nutrient rich organs that provide essential vitamins, minerals, proteins, and hormones needed to recover from birth and care for offspring.
Human placentas are high in iron, protein, vitamin B6, and hormones that replenish the body and restore and balance hormonal fluctuations after childbirth. Traditional Chinese Medicine has used placenta (Ze He Che) for thousands of years to augment the body’s “Qi” (life-force energy), and nourish the body’s “Essence.” Encapsulating your placenta is the easiest (and most tasteless) way to consume this powerful remedy.