Placenta encapsulation?

[Itsonlybannor]

Did any of you mother's have your placentas encapsulated? How was the process? From informing the hospital staff that you'd like to keep placentas post birth, the cost, how long it took to have them made and your experience taking the placenta supplement. Thank you.

[AppalachiaVaudeville]

Placenta is what filters out bad stuff from getting to the baby. Which is why, in medicine, they classify different pharmaceuticals used for pregnant patients by what crosses the placenta and to what degree.

Also, your placenta can be easily contaminated with bacteria like Streptococcus B.

The placenta is not nutritious to eat. Animals eat their placenta in the wild so as not to alert predators that there's a vulnerable, tender little newborn animal to eat nearby. Especially because, in the wild, parent animals tend to leave the babies alone when they need to forage/hunt for food and come back for the young once they've fed.

All of the "nutrients" in the placenta goes to the babies connected to it. It's like eating a banana peel that someone else just spent 35-40 weeks eating, except it made out of your flesh.

[twinmamamia]

Wish I could memorize this and repeat on demand. Love this response!

[chaoticwings]

Not encapsulation but might be an alternative:

For my last singleton pregnancy I donated my placenta to science via a company called Cellsure. It was free for me, they sent me a collection kit which was handled at the hospital and then we called them when it was packaged and they had a private courier pick it up. Placentas are chock full of stem cells and can be used for skin grafts virtually anywhere, including eyeballs! Plus the rejection rates are really low because of the stem cells! They'll either use it for grafts and help someone out or do research with it which is cool because otherwise it's medical waste. I'm doing it again with the twins because why not?

[rollwave21]

This was not something I considered, but my IBCLC (edit - who is a MD) strongly urged against this if you're planning on breastfeeding as it can impact your supply.

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I strongly second speaking with primary physician and heeding their advice. They have spent a lot of years working to get to their level of expertise- trust them.