Great Health Naturally: Welcome Beverley! In your own words, why do you feel women should be eating their placenta? And what are the reported benefits to health doing so could bring?
Beverley Gazy Placenta Remedies Consultant at Birth Your Way: The reported benefits of a woman consuming their own placenta are mainly a feeling of well being following the birth, the replenishing of the iron lost in the birth and postnatal period, less lochia lost (reduced blood loss) less chance of post natal depression occurring due to the many hormones, stem cells and nutrients the placenta contains.
GHN: Does encapsulating the placenta, instead of eating it raw/frozen, change the benefits to the body you listed above?
BGPRC: Freezing the placenta typically destroys the B vitamins unfortunately, however there is still a benefit to consuming the placenta in smoothie form. It really is personal choice as to whether the woman wants smoothies or capsules. Capsules are a good source of all the vitamins and nutrients etc, that was listed above.
GHN: Of the women you have helped encapsulate or eat their placenta, have you known any to go on to suffer with post natal depression?
BGPRC: I have never had a woman report to me that they have suffered from post natal depression in the time I have been offering this service.
GHN: How do you encapsulate a placenta?
BGPRC: A placenta is prepared, steamed, dried, ground up into powder then encapsulated.
GHN: If a woman wishes to consume her placenta in its most natural state, it safe for a women to cut up her placenta herself if no meconium came out during child birth, or would it be safer (hygienically speaking) to go on to employ someone like yourself who can make it okay to consume?
BGPRC: It is a woman’s personal choice as to whether she would like to make herself smoothies as the placenta is her property and as yet is not against the law to consume her own placenta. However, in my experience I would strongly advise any woman to employ a specialist to carry this out for her due to strict health and safety issues, as all placenta remedy consultants are all trained to handle placentas correctly and also meet high standards of food safety and hygiene practices.
GHN: I haven’t used all of my capsules yet, what other times in my life could I possibly use them for, and how do I go about storing them until then correctly?
BGPRC: I would suggest as you had the TCM capsules made that you now freeze them and they can be used in times of PMS or at menopause. Never use them during pregnancy as they could in fact interfere with the hormones of pregnancy.
If you have any further queries about placenta encapsulation, or just want a friendly person to speak to to find out whether placenta encapsulation is for you, then please contact Beverley or visit her website Birth Your Way.
As well as being a placenta remedies consultant, Beverley is also a doula, a night nanny and a maternity nurse consultant and can create all the following products with your placenta; raw dried placenta capsules and traditional Chinese medicine placentas, smoothie making with a fresh placenta, tinctures, balms, creams, homeopathic remedies and mother essence. On request, Beverley can also take digital photographs of your placenta and can create stunning placenta cord keepsakes. All certificates available to be seen on request.
To read about what happened to me when I at my placenta in capsule form please click here.
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