Anyone turned your placenta into tablets?

[Sunflower0000]

Hi all,
just wondering if anyone has turned their placenta into tablet form and if you found this beneficial or a waste of time?

My friend recommended it to me as she said it helps with milk supply and recovery but unsure whether to do it as the lady she recommends is quite expensive...Therefore interested to hear others experiences?
Thanks

Honestly I think it’s a completely waste of time and money and is more of a placebo effect than anything. Your friend probably would have had a brilliant milk supply without the tablets, let the placenta go in the clinical waste! Eat and good diet, rest, lots of skin to skin and down time with the baby and your partner quietly on the sofa😊

Thank you, I was looking for more experiences than opinion though as appreciate it's a controversial/divisive subject. Anyone tried it?

I didn’t do tablets but so we could honour such an amazing part of growing out baby we took prints from it so we have some very personal but to us at least beautiful art to remember

@Honeydukesmum that's lovely! I've never heard of that being done before. The body is amazing isn't it 💕

Happy to post a pic ( if allowed) x

We buried DS’ and planted a tree over it in the garden. Even at 2 DS knows it’s ‘his tree’.

I didn’t encapsulate because I believe that you would lose any nutritional/hormonal benefit in the drying process and the idea of eating it raw absolutely turned my stomach. I’m a midwife, I must have handled hundreds of placentas and I still find them a bit grim 😂

@Sunflower0000 I know two people who have done it and they claim to have far more energy afterwards than in previous pregnancies (both were second time mums with toddlers!) an increase in milk supply and no pnd.
I will be 42 when I give birth to this one so I figure I could do with the energy boost! Yes it’s expensive but I’m willing to make sacrifices.
Good luck with your decision.

You can donate it at some hospitals. They use the blood and plasma for premature babies etc. I might do that

@PolarBearStrength that's a lovely idea too and good for the planet 👍
Yes, said friend also made a smoothie from it!! She swears that you couldn't taste it with all the berries she put in but I think that's a step too far for me!

@TheFoz that's really interesting, thank you for sharing. Hope it does work for you and congratulations on your pregnancy.
I think I'll probably do it if money allows, it's worth a try for the potential benefits

My friend did it and says it made a massive difference. That said she was a first time mum so what she was comparing it to I've no idea. I've had a few kids and managed full term breastfeeding without it!

I did it with my second and was so glad I did. I felt amazing, my iron levels restored really quickly and my daughter put in weight in the 1st ten days exclusively breastfeeding.

[quote Sunflower0000]@PolarBearStrength that's a lovely idea too and good for the planet 👍
Yes, said friend also made a smoothie from it!! She swears that you couldn't taste it with all the berries she put in but I think that's a step too far for me!

@TheFoz that's really interesting, thank you for sharing. Hope it does work for you and congratulations on your pregnancy.
I think I'll probably do it if money allows, it's worth a try for the potential benefits [/quote]
Likely a placebo effect so save your money and take a tiktak once a day and you'll get the same benefits. Plus, that method is scientifically proven unlike the expensive one.

I didn't, breast fed just fine. Only grazed during birth, was walking the dogs next day...albeit very tentatively 😁