Our Placenta Encapsulation

[pregnant_niamh]

Around the beginning-mid part of my second trimester, I heard about placenta encapsulation for the first time. What this entails is steaming and dehydrating the placenta, grinding it up, and filling empty pill capsules with the intent of being consumed. Sounds crazy and gross to the average person, lol. But as I'm sure you're all aware, I'm not

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[anonymous]

Not THAT gross.

I read your blog, mostly because of things like this. I don't have any children, but this is very informative. I've actually never heard of it until now, but this is yet another examples of how fantastic our bodies, as women, really are!

Thanks for teaching me sooo much!

[pregnant_niamh]

I'm glad! And you're very welcome! :-D

[pregnant_niamh]

We went by smell. It didn't smell like it had started rotting or anything. Plus, it was in an air-tight container. The people I've talked to online who have encapsulated their placentas said that it was pretty much like any other kind of gamey meat (like deer or something like that). My husband knew that often times when people go hunting they'll leave the meat out for a few days at a time to drain the blood and such from the animal... so he figured there the placenta was probably still good. He also knows from living on a farm what meat that's started to go bad smells like, so he knew what to smell for. ;-)

We've had other hunter-type people tell us that it was probably good... for that same reason I mentioned above. :-) Plus, like I said, it was in an air-tight seal... so even though it was kept out for about 36 hours, he knew it probably wasn't long enough to have any real effect. Of course, he drove it home and put it in the refrigerator right away anyways. :-)

[sblood]

Haha, you guys were brave! While I'm not opposed to placenta encapsulation, lol, I wouldn't not be able to do it in my own home!

[hunterkai]

I've seen a video of it done, I think it's awesome and even moreso that you guys did it yourself. What an adventure. :-) Looks great. I don't think I would've kept my placenta but I do wish I'd kept the cord. I'm amazed at how thick it still is. Will it shrink further? I've seen other people's kept-cords and they've wilted/withered so much that it just looks like sewing thread in a ziploc.

[pregnant_niamh]

I'm not sure if it'll shrink or not, to be honest. We did dehydrate it with the placenta, so hopefully it'll stay like that... but I honestly have no idea. :-P I'm not even sure what to do with it, lol.

Yay!

[anonymous]

Thanks for posting :) It's really hard to find pictures of people doing this. As you know, i'm totally doing this for our future children. I also plan on making placenta prints. What i want to do is do one for each child (i forgot to do one for Grace, but the placenta is still in my freezer so i'm going to try it with it before we plant it). I want to print each placenta and then when we are done having children, i want to collage the pictures together to create a "family tree" kinda thing :) I hope that it will work. I'm going to try to use a natural dye, like beet juice or something.

Anyways, totally rocks!
-Jillyn