Taking Placenta Pills After Birth: What It Was Like For Me

The process of eating your placenta in pill form is gaining in popularity — but it’s not for everyone! This video summarizes my personal experience with taking placenta pills after birth at home.

I had my placenta encapsulated (made into pills or capsules) immediately after the birth of my son. See what my experience was like, and the results I experienced firsthand from placenta encapsulation.

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TRANSCRIPT:

H! everybody! My name is Candida Jagger. And welcome to today’s video. Today I want to talk about a subject that is very personal. But I feel it is very important to share.

Just this week I am 16 weeks postpartum. And I am happy to report that “little man” and myself are both thriving.

I never once experienced the baby blues or had a problem with milk supply. I actually lost all my baby weight and I had tremendous energy to take care of Silas and the rest of our fur babies.

I’m talking about how and why I consumed my placenta. Now before you get all squeamish, let me finish…

Some of you may also be asking what is a placenta? Or what on earth is placenta encapsulation?

Well, for starters… The short & sweet of it is… The placenta is the organ that develops inside the uterus and nourishes the baby during pregnancy. Not only does it keep the baby thriving, but it also delivers extra hormones to the mom to endure those long months of housing a tiny human inside of you — especially near the end.

The placenta obviously does much more than that. But that’s its role in a nutshell.

So not only does the mother give birth to the baby, but she also has to deliver her placenta shortly afterwards. And the placenta is hers to do whatever she pleases with it. However, there are some states that are making it quite difficult for the placenta to be released to the mother. They have to jump through all kinds of hoops. Which is crazy, but… I guess they consider it “waste”. And you have to sign all these different forms.

Anyway, the encapsulation piece of the process is the placenta is then steamed or dehydrated and put into capsule form for the mother to take as a supplement. While I was pregnant, I researched placenta encapsulation on the advice of my very close friend Pammy, who actually experienced the benefits firsthand after the birth of her 3rd child.

Not only did she do the placenta encapsulation, but she also did the placenta tincture — which she’ll be able to use for the rest of her life. Especially going through PMS or menopause, which is pretty awesome. She buried her previous 2 placentas under trees. Many cultures (including the Navajo Indians) would bury their placentas to symbolize the child’s link to Earth — which I thought was pretty amazing.

I was more interested in the direct benefits in the recovery after birth. I really had no interest in eating the organ in my foods or in smoothies or even encapsulating the organ myself. I just wouldn’t be interested in a project like that.

Through our wonderful World Wide Web, I found a lady named Holly Stewart of East Tennessee Placenta Medicine right here in Knoxville. For less than $200… she came to the hospital, picked up my placenta (which the hospital kept in the fridge for me until she could get there), she cleaned it, dehydrated it, put it into capsule form, and even delivered it to my home.

In addition to the capsules, she also made this little heart that is a great keepsake. It’s part of the umbilical cord. And this is actually a print of the placenta, which I’ll also get to keep forever! Tree of Life that nourished Silas while he was in the womb. She really offered a stellar service!

So I started taking 2 capsules in the morning, 2 capsules at night for one week. And then I switched to 1 capsule in the morning and 1 capsule at night for the remainder of the pills — which lasted me for about 2 and a half months.

While some will argue the placebo effect, there are so many benefits to placenta encapsulation, including an increase in the hormone level Oxytocin — which helps reduce your uterus back to normal size and helps bonding with the infant. There’s stress reducing hormones released. There’s an increase in energy. There’s reduction in postpartum depression. Restoration of iron levels in the blood. Increase in milk supply. So quite a few benefits that definitely shouldn’t be overlooked. So placebo or not, I definitely experienced the benefits firsthand of placenta encapsulation. I definitely bonded with Silas. My uterus definitely shrunk back to size. I’ve never once experienced the postpartum depression or the baby blues. I had tremendous energy to take care of my newborn. And I DEFINITELY had an over supply of milk.

That’s my video for today. I hope you got some value out of it. My one wish is to help at least one person a day. So if you liked what you saw, or if you know of someone who could definitely benefit from the information… please share this video, or comment in the Comment Section below, or tag their names.

Thank you for tuning in and have an amazing day!