Would you take a pill made out of your own placenta?
Would you take a pill made out of your own placenta?
Parents are being offered the chance to benefit from its vitamin and mineral content in pill form. Midwife Caroline Baddiley will collect a new mother’s placenta within a few hours of a baby being born.
Caroline Baddiley, says consuming afterbirth increases milk production, boosts iron and reduces the chances of post natal depression. She then cooks it in a steamer, dehydrates it, and grinds the result into a powder which can be easily ingested by swallowing a capsule.
Some of the benefits of consuming placenta are said to include enhanced breast milk production and a reduction in the risk of post-natal depression.
Baddiley takes the afterbirth home and steams it in her kitchen for 20 minutes, then slices it into small parts before putting it into a food dehydrator for 12 hours
‘The capsules look like a herbal remedy. A large placenta will make 90 to 120 capsules.’
In the wild, mammals bite through the umbilical cord and eat the placenta straight after the birth.
