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Placenta Encapsulation in Los Angeles

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Your postpartum recovery deserves as much care as your pregnancy and birth. Placenta encapsulation provides a natural way to nourish and support your body during this profound transition, utilizing the nutrients and hormones your body produced during pregnancy.

What is Placenta encapsulation?

Placenta encapsulation is the process of steaming, dehydrating, and grinding your placenta into easy-to-take capsules, making it a simple and natural way to nourish yourself postpartum. Many parents find it helps with energy, mood balance, and overall healing during those early weeks with a newborn. It’s a gentle way to give back to yourself, using what your body already made just for you.

Nourishment for Your Postpartum Journey

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Our Encapsulation Process:

  1. pLACENTA PICK UP

    We pick up you placenta from your hospital, birth center, or home

2. placenta processing

We carefully clean, steam and dehydrate your placenta

3. placenta Dehydration

We grind the placenta into powder and encapsulate into pills

4. placenta Drop-off

We deliver the placenta to your home, within 3-4 days.

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Placenta Encapsulation Package includes:

  • Depending on placenta size, you will receive between 80-150 capsules.

  • Alcohol infused tincture contains raw placenta and is intended for use after 6 weeks.

  • A small, dried piece of your baby’s umbilical cord, carefully shaped and preserved as a sentimental reminder of the physical connection you once shared.

  • A unique representation of your placenta, created by gently pressing it onto paper to capture its intricate, natural patterns as a beautiful keepsake from your birth experience.

Placenta Encapsulation Package $500

Questions? Book a call and we will walk you through it all.

Enhance your healing with our add on packages:

Belly binding — $975

3 one-hour belly-binding sessions. Each session includes a sitzbath/foot soak, a gentle belly massage, expertly apply bind, and a healthy snack and tea. We provide the bind.

postpartum/ lactation session — $375

These 2.5 hour sessions are help nurture and nourish you. Lactation support, physical and emotional recovery, newborn behaviors, baby wearing, and sleep techniques are just some ways we support our postpartum families.

FAQs about placentas

  • We usually start processing it 24-48 hours after pick up.

  • Once the processing has begun, it takes about 24 hours to complete.

  • Yes! Placenta encapsulation is an option after both vaginal and surgical births.

  • If placenta was sent to pathology or if there was an infection in labor, we do not recommend encapsulating or consuming.

  • While scientific research on placenta encapsulation is still evolving, many families find it to be a meaningful and supportive part of their postpartum recovery. Anecdotal evidence points to various benefits, and interestingly, most mammals in nature instinctively consume their placentas after birth.

  • Head over to our contact page, and schedule a short call for any questions and to book.