Ok, you just might be on board, hypothetically. But you have some more questions, we get it.

What Is The Process To Encapsulate The Placenta?

Once you have secured the services of your specialist, with a deposit and signed contract, she will be on call for you surrounding your due date. You’ll get specific instructions from her about preserving your placenta after birth. She will come to pick it up at the birth place as quickly as possible to begin processing it while it is fresh. This is time sensitive for a few reasons. Firstly for safety and health reasons, but also because you are likely to feel your lowest emotionally on day 4 or 5, so its ideal to have your placenta products back as soon as possible. Your placenta must stay refrigerated or on ice in a cooler after birth until she picks it up. Your Specialist will not encapsulate the placenta if its been left out for too long, or if she is not notified in time. She also can not encapsulated your placenta if an infection is present at the time of birth, or without proof that maternal blood born pathogens/diseases were not present during pregnancy. (You provide her with these records when services are retained.)

The placenta will take around a day to process and get back to you, your Specialist will do this as quickly as she can for you. You can choose which method of encapsulation is right for you. All placentas are dehydrated and then ground into a fine powder and placed into capsules. It ends up looking like any other supplement you might take in capsule form. Not so bad, eh?

You can begin taking the capsules as soon as you receive them, storing them in a cool, dry place. You can expect to receive around 80-150 capsules, which can be frozen for storage if you want to use them for balancing hormones at another time. (PMS anyone??)

Is Placenta Encapsulation Clean and Safe?

Every once in awhile someone actually thinks about what we may be doing with their placenta once it leaves their possession and they ask us, “Uh, is that safe?” It’s a legitimate question, and we are actually happy to see parents thinking out the decision they are making. Please be sure to discuss any concerns you have with your Specialist, we are an open book about this process.

All placentas are handled with universal/standard precautions. This means nothing touches your placenta that has any potential pathogens on it and your placenta doesn’t touch anything that can not be properly cleaned and sterilized. We use medical grade protection supplies and food grade equipment. We use the Occupational Safety and Health Administration practice standards to ensure proper handling, cleaning and sterilization of all equipment. We only process one placenta at a time and use a separate designated area of our homes. We can also process the placenta in your home, just ask!