Introducing Placenta Apothecary - making personalized remedies from your placenta for postpartum wellness. Kristina is working in collaboration with Jaime Shapiro to offer these services to the community. Visit us at www.placentalove.blogspot.com
The placenta is an amazing organ that supports your baby in utero. It is a mediator between the life flow of the mother and baby and has great restorative power to assist you with your postpartum recovery. It contains many vital nutrients including iron, protein, vitamin B6 and the hormones it excreted during pregnancy. Just as it nourished your baby, the placenta, when carefully prepared for consumption, nourishes the postpartum mother. It replenishes and balances hormone levels and is intended to help fight postpartum depression. Ingesting placenta helps to increase milk production and decrease the length of postpartum bleeding.
The high hormone levels of pregnancy drop significantly by day 4-5 postpartum. It is thought that this fluctuation is a key factor in the development of the “baby blues”. By reintroducing the hormones back into your system, many women find that they do not experience these emotional swings as intensely. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), steamed and dried placenta is used to fight fatigue, which is one of the leading indicators in the development of postpartum depression (PPD). Iron deficiency is also linked to PPD; replenishing your system with iron-rich placenta can help alleviate a major symptom of PPD.
Encapsulated placenta is believed to:
• Increase general energy
• Allow a quicker return to health after birth
• Increase production of breast milk
• Decrease likelihood of baby blues and post-natal depression
• Decrease likelihood of iron deficiency
Women who take placenta capsules report fewer emotional issues, have more energy and tend to enjoy a faster, more pleasant postpartum recovery.
In addition to dried encapsulated placenta capsules, Placenta Apothecary can make Raw Placenta Capsules, Placenta Tincture and Placenta Essence (which can be made into your child’s homeopathic constitutional remedy) from your placenta. Contact Kristina or Jaime for more information or visit us at www.placentalove.blogspot.com
The information on this page has not been evaluated by the FDA. The services offered by Placenta Apothecary are not clinical, pharmaceutical, or intended to diagnose or treat any condition. Families who choose to utilze the services on this page take full responsibility of their own health and for researching and using the remedies.