What if I told you there was a postpartum supplement that is reported to:
• increase your milk supply?
• increase your energy levels?
• reduce your risk of postpartum depression?
• quicken uterine healing AND cut postpartum bleeding in half?
• reduce pain?
• reduce inflammation & swelling?
• increase mom/baby bonding?
• decrease fatigue?
• promote healing?
You’d say it was too good to be true?
It’s really not. But you’ll have to get past the “ick factor!” It’s placentophagy in the most popular form of PLACENTA ENCAPSULATION!
Chances are, you probably know someone who has had their placenta encapsulated, they just might not talk about it. It's our most popular service!
MotherBirth professional placenta specialists are double and triple certified, have collectively been performing placenta preparation services for over 15 years, and have served well over 300 clients to date.
I know – I know… eat my placenta? Yes, BUT you never even have to see it in it’s birthed and bloody form. MotherBirth provides a lovely transport kit that your birth team will use to package it up while you are enjoying looking into your baby’s eyes for the first time. Your specialist picks it up and does the whole process within the next day or two and delivers an amber bottle of capsules that truly look like vitamins. (We don’t even put “placenta” on the bottle for those nosey MILs) ;-)
I can hear the analytical minds thinking, “what’s the science?” Well, I’m glad your mind asked, see below:
Composition & Reported Benefits:
- Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone: prepares & aides lactation; stabilizes postpartum mood; regulates post-birth uterine cramping
- Prolactin: increases milk supply; enhances the mothering instinct
- Oxytocin: increases mother/infant bonding; counteracts stress hormones; reduces postpartum bleeding; enhances the breastfeeding let-down reflex
- Opioid-Enhancing Factor: produces natural opioids, including endorphins; reduces pain; increases well-being
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone & Hemoglobin: boosts energy & mood
- Corticotropin Releasing Hormone: helps prevent depression
- Cortisone: Reduces inflammation and swelling; promotes healing
- Iron: increases energy; decreases fatigue and depression
———— And that’s a limited list!
Here are a few scientific studies you can skim, because I know nearly all of the OBs out there say there are no studies…. (eye roll)
1. Hormonal Changes in the Postpartum and Implications for Postpartum Depression by HENDRICK, M.D. ALTSHULER, M.D. SURI, M.D.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9584534
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9584534
2. Beard, J.L., Corwin, E.J., & Kolb-Murray, L. E. (2003). Low Hemoglobin Level Is a Risk Factor for Postpartum Depression. The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 133 (12), pp. 4139-4142
3. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 36. American Society of Biological Chemists, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, original press: Harvard University.
http://www.jbc.org/content/36/3/569.full.pdf?sid=f787e410-a8c9-4309-bf7a678880412ec8
4. ”Powdered Placenta Hominis was used for 57 cases of insufficient lactation. Within 4 days, 48 women had markedly increased milk production, with the remainder following suit over the next three days." Bensky/Gamble. 1997. Materia Medica, Eastland Press, 549.
5.”It has been shown that the feeding of desiccated placenta to women during the first eleven days after parturition causes an increase in the protein and lactose percent of the milk...
All the mothers were receiving the same diet, and to the second set 0.6mg of desiccated placenta was fed three times a day throughout the period. Certain definite differences in the progress of growth of the two sets of infants are to be observed. It is evident that the recovery from the postnatal decline in weight is hastened by the consumption of milk produced under the influence of maternally ingested placenta." McNeile, Lyle G. 1918. The American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, 77. W.A. Townsend & Adams, original press: University of Michigan.
6. Placentophagia in Humans and Nonhuman Mammals: Causes and Consequences
7. Steamed, Dehydrated or Raw: Placentas May Help Moms’ Post-Partum Health
http://www.unlv.edu/news/article/steamed-dehydrated-or-raw-placentas-may-help-moms’-post-partum-health
8. Participation of Placental Opioid-Enhancing Factor in Opioid-Modulated Events at Parturition
9. Effects of placentophagy on serum prolactin and progesterone
concentrations in rats after parturition or superovulation.
10. Nutrients and hormones in heat-dried human placenta.
11. The Impact of Fatigue on the Development of Postpartum Depression
12. Placenta as a Lactagogon by Soyková-Pachnerová, Brutar, Golová, Zvolská, Vol. 138, No. 6, 1954 http://www.karger.com/Article/PDF/308239
13. Placenta ingestion by rats enhances y- and n-opioid antinociception, but suppresses A-opioid antinociception http://cogprints.org/5771/1/DiPirro_and_Kristal.pdf
From MotherBirth’s placenta specialists’ international certifying body:
13. Placentophagy Papers, Reviews & Studies: What They Really Mean
14. Uncovering the Truth About Bacteria and Heavy Metals in the Placenta
http://placentaassociation.com/uncovering-the-truth-about-bacteria-and-heavy-metals-in-the-placenta/
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