Your placenta is an amazingly beautiful, temporary, and essential organ developed in pregnancy at about 5 to 6 weeks gestation. The placenta carries out functions that the fetus cannot do by itself. This includes acting as a filter keeping out all bacteria, disposing of waste, and supplying blood flow from the pregnant person to the baby. It also produces hormones necessary to sustain pregnancy and healthy fetal development. It is baby's life sustaining organ. For this, it is revered within many cultures. While some parents choose to honor the placenta in ritual and ceremony, other birthing people consume it within the postpartum period for additional benefits.
Some benefits of encapsulating your placenta include:
- helps to restore nutrients lost during childbirth
- hormonal balance
- increases and enriches breastmilk production
- increases energy, while reducing overall fatigue
- assists with flow of oxytocin that increase uterine contraction and enhance bonding with your baby
- reduces bleeding and promotes wound healing
- decreases "baby blues" and postpartum depression
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Encapsulation Package Includes
Investment for Placenta Encapsulation*
$225 *20% discount for current doula clients |
"By preserving the integrity of the placenta at birth, we keep the circular flow of energy within our individual bodies. The placenta connects all of our chakras, enabling us to live as integrated, whole human beings, curved around the circular flow of energy, oscillating in a yin-yang pattern... By keeping this continuity intact, we preserve our relationship with past, present, and future."
- Robin Lim, author of Placenta: The Forgotten Chakra
- Robin Lim, author of Placenta: The Forgotten Chakra