Had a random discussion with my midwife yesterday. We were discussing encapsulating my placenta. She'd heard of it, but never had a client who'd done it; but several weeks ago I got the results of a ferritin test back, and my records showed that I had a HUGE leap in blood ferritin six weeks after I gave birth to DD (a few years ago). She said "Wow, what were you taking?" and it took me a moment to figure it out, because I knew I wasn't on iron supplements at the time; but we eventually figured out it was probably the placenta. So now she's a huge fan of the idea, and kept bugging me to get DH to hurry up and encapsulate DS's placenta (he was born five days ago).
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So anyhoo. We were chatting about it yesterday, and she said "You know, I have some JW clients and they don't do blood transfusions, so I wonder if I should suggest the placenta to them as a good way to boost their iron levels postpartum?". And it got me wondering. The placenta is technically the baby's, not the mothers; so what's the religious stance on consuming it? I assume a mother wouldn't be allowed to eat it in a "whole" form (or would she?); but would encapsulation be OK? My MW didn't know, but then she's not JW.
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Just curious!
