Placenta encapsulation

[CaraL9]

Hi!

I'm 19 weeks with my first pregnancy and I've been researching placenta encapsulation. I've read the benefits online and it sounds great! However, I would like to know if anyone has done it and if it worth the £200?

TIA

No it's dangerous woo.

Just think about it. It's medical waste. The dehydrators these people use at home for your placenta just cannot be properly cleansed and sterilised between each person's placenta.

There are zero proven benefits. Really really, just don't do it.

I’m sure someone will come on and say that it stopped them getting PND and made their hair shiny etc etc, but really as flippity says there’s no proven benefits to it.

£200 is astronomical for something that probably doesn’t do much of anything- it’s more than a weeks statutory maternity pay.

I looked into this and iirc there is no one overseeing that these are following hygiene standards etc. Its not regulated... Thats the word I'm after. You have little reassurance that tools are properly santised and your placenta is being processed properly.

Eat and drink well. Maybe take a multi vitamin post natal to aid physical well being. Know where you need to go for emotional support etc.

Really don't buy into this OP - there is absolutely zero medical evidence to prove it does anything of benefit. If you're researching, go and look at actual peer reviewed studies please, not sales pitches you read online. It's a massive waste of money and, as flippityfloppity pointed out, the industry providing that service isn't regulated, so god knows how unhygienic or unsafe it could be.

I did it 👍 and I have met a lot of women through work as a midwife who also have done it. I used Placenta Practice who are based in London and use a specific kitchen used only for this purpose. They have been signed off by public health England and environmental health.
I decided after having PND last time and requiring a blood transfusion I wanted to try and felt the £200 was worth it even if a placebo effect.
So I’m 6weeks in to taking the capsules and my iron levels came up to normal by 4weeks from 89 without the use of iron supplements, I had a few days feeling low but so far no signs of PND, I don’t feel anywhere near as tired as I did after my first...
Could be placebo or circumstances, or maybe it does work, whomlnows. I’m happy I did it though.

The danger of the placebo effect is that proper PND can't really be treated with a placebo it can just be masked and women can delay in getting actual proven medical treatment because they think they're taking action.

Correlating baby blues after birth clearing up on their own with swallowing snake oil and telling others it 'helped with their pnd' isn't great really. That delay can have catastrophic consequences.

Mumsnet isn't the place to ask for advice concerning practices, remedies, solutions etc of a more naturopathic/homeopathic nature - I learned that the hard way (after about a hundred Mumsnet users tore me to shreds on thread I posted, a little while ago - horrible experience). The views of most of the women on here are more aligned to conventional medicine, and they're quite blunt about the way they express such views. Head to 'Arnica - Parents' Support Network...' on Facebook for queries like this. Really lovely community, and the people are really helpful.

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Just be careful OP - we asked our course leader about this in NCT and she warned that most people who offer the service are drying out the placenta and encapsulating it in their own kitchens at home, not in a sterile lab. I'm not sure how clean your kitchen is, but I clean mine every day and still I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable grinding up human tissue in there without risk of something contaminating it.