Anyone else having their placenta dried and put in capsules?

[sagira]

They offer this at our birth center, and I really believe it helped me deal with the blood loss and bring my hemoglobin back to normal. I also felt great and ready to be a mom, even though I didn't have any previous experience with newborns or babies of any kind. I was on a natural high for five months.

Anyone have stories to relate about it helping with Post Partum Blues/Depression?

Needless to say, I'm doing it again with this baby.

[2sweetboysmom]

Thank you for mentioning it, it had totaly slipped my mind as a possibility.
I am going to ask the WMs around here. I have never had more than 2 days worth of weepyness post partum, but I am older, my body is more depleated, and I have alot more risk factors this time (interms of additional stressors) I have been trying to plan out what I am going to do for myself so that ppd does not become a problem.

[eri_flores]

I'm planning to do it myself, or have a friend help... I haven't looked into having somone do it for me. Everything I hear leads me to believe it's a great idea. Anyone have any experience doing it themselves, say one day postpartum? Too much of a project?

[zofranland]

this may sound like a dumb question but would you still do the placenta drying if it was stained with mec or did not look like a healthy placenta? the whole placenta/pill thing is a new concept that i have been reading about since i have joined this board!

[momazon4]

If you are doing it yourself- it is well worth the investment of an encapsulator. You can get them at a health food store, I think mine was about $20, and they save so much time!

[BoGiBoBo]

I plan on doing it. I ordered an ecapsulator and 1000 empty capsules for about 30 dollars online. From everything I have read or heard, it is a good thing for me to do.

[ShabbyChic]

I want to. I am having a hospital birth and was told by the hospital that it is against the law to have them give it to me. I can't seem to locate any supporting evidence for this. We live in NJ. So, my OB said the only way to get it out of the hospital is to steal it. I plan on it. Not sure how it is considered stealing when it is mine to begin with.

[mommysusie]

I want to, but I have no idea how to even begin to find someone to do it for me. If I can't, I'll probably still try to take it home and just plant it with a tree. Dh likes that idea better anyway.

[PPK]

I intend to encapsulate it or consume raw, will try to do more research to see which one, or a little of both. But what about if you birth in water? There was another thread (in 'I'm pregnant') that mentions fluids and excretions in the water, this would seem to contaminate the placenta..I guess you just need to step out of the pool for delivery of the placenta??

[eri_flores]

Originally Posted by ShabbyChic

I want to. I am having a hospital birth and was told by the hospital that it is against the law to have them give it to me. I can't seem to locate any supporting evidence for this. We live in NJ. So, my OB said the only way to get it out of the hospital is to steal it. I plan on it. Not sure how it is considered stealing when it is mine to begin with.

What about telling the hospital it is a "religious necessity" that you have back any parts of your body that are "amputated" so that you can give them a proper burial or something? I'm not exactly sure how this works, but I've seen people recommed a religious exemption to this "law". (Seriously, how could it be against the law??!!??)

As far as the placenta being contaminated in the water, or by meconium, can't you just wash it off, like you would a piece of meat? I've never heard of any risk of contamination...as jenrose said, you could birth it out of the water, I suppose.

PS Thanks for the encapsulator suggestion!

[cornpicker]

DH read that hospitals sell the placentas to cosmetics companies. How dare you take away from their profits!

Pass the moisturizer!

[sanguine_speed]

I would warn the mama who plans to steal the placenta that you need to have a good plan in place to do that; it's gone within minutes! You'll not be jumping up and running after it with a brand new baby in your arms and potentially shaking from the effects of the birth. They go fast so have a theft plan.

I do plan to encapsulate. I had severe PPD the first time, and the second time I had a PPH that was all he** to recover from. I didn't know that it was a possibility to have someone else do it for me. I wonder if that could be done around here. The less I have to worry about, the better.

[mamamoo]

Originally Posted by jenrose9

I intend to encapsulate it or consume raw, will try to do more research to see which one, or a little of both. But what about if you birth in water? There was another thread (in 'I'm pregnant') that mentions fluids and excretions in the water, this would seem to contaminate the placenta..I guess you just need to step out of the pool for delivery of the placenta??

I birthed my placenta in teh water and had it encapsulized last time.

I imagine she washed it first or something. Some mws have you get out of the water to birth placenta anyway, but I stayed in.

I posted a bunch of info on the weekly thread about this last night, but I am definitely going to have mine done again. You can read my story here:
www.placentabenefits.info under the testimonials. Also it looks like they offer a diy kit on there for $75. I would pay double that to have mine done. Seriously. It is so worth it.

[lyttlewon]

I am going to do it. After my experience with hemmorage and depression with DD I would eat it with fava beans and a bottle of Chianti.

[lyttlewon]

Originally Posted by ShabbyChic

I want to. I am having a hospital birth and was told by the hospital that it is against the law to have them give it to me. I can't seem to locate any supporting evidence for this. We live in NJ. So, my OB said the only way to get it out of the hospital is to steal it. I plan on it. Not sure how it is considered stealing when it is mine to begin with.

Can you do it for religious reasons? Usually they will do anything for you if it is religious.

[lyttlewon]

Originally Posted by jenrose9

I intend to encapsulate it or consume raw, will try to do more research to see which one, or a little of both. But what about if you birth in water? There was another thread (in 'I'm pregnant') that mentions fluids and excretions in the water, this would seem to contaminate the placenta..I guess you just need to step out of the pool for delivery of the placenta??

Not necessarily. Uterine fluids have already been hanging out with the placenta. If you poop there is a caution of e coli I suppose but I would rinse it. Normally during the encapsulating process it is exposed to heat. We ingest e coli all the time so personally I wouldn't worry about it.

[mamamoo]

Originally Posted by lyttlewon

I am going to do it. After my experience with hemmorage and depression with DD I would eat it with fava beans and a bottle of Chianti.

Is steve going to partake in that particular dinner with you? LOL j/k

I totally hear ya though. I would eat it raw after my third ppd experience if I had to. So glad drying/encapsulating is an option though.

[ShabbyChic]

I figure they swipe it away within minutes, so my plan was to bring a tupperware container and have DH put it in and hide it in his sweatshirt and then take it out to my mom in the waiting room and have her go put it in the car. Does that sound like a viable plan? They only thing is, once it is in her car, does it need to be refrigerated? It is August, and hot. Also, what if they are like "where is that placenta??" I figure we will just look stupid and be like "what?".

[mamamoo]

you do need to refridgerate it.

[123]

We're homebirthing in someone else's home (due to state laws), so we're going to bring a cooler with ice in it. I'm planning on taking a few pieces raw right after the birth and then using the rest when we get home. I'm still researching the various ways of consuming it. I might cut it into pieces and freeze them and then I can thaw a piece at a time.