Texas Placenta Service Areas

It's an amazing organ that your body creates to nourish your baby during pregnancy.  It has huge responsibilities and works hard, carefully selecting all the things your baby needs to grow while in the womb.  It continues working at supplying oxygen and nutrients, keeping your baby alive, until after they are both born, when it completes its work with Baby and is ready to nourish the Mother back to health.

A few things are possible depending on location and individual situations.  Sometimes placentas are sent to Pathology or disposed of.  Sometimes hospitals have a contract with a Lab and they sell Placentas for research and real-life patient healing.  Locally, I know some hospitals have a contract with a Placenta Donation Team that will come around after birth with their pamphlet showing you how your placenta can help others.  And it really is amazing.  Placentas are being grafted onto chemical burns to regrow tissue, used during reconstructive surgeries, eye surgeries, sports tissue injuries, dental applications & more!  

Their website is definitely very interesting and you should check it out!  http://placentadonation.com  

While I LOVE allllll the things the placenta does, I do believe you need your own placenta after your birth - if you want it!  You only have one chance to have all these benefits for yourself!

(And I don’t love the donation team’s practices of coming in at 3am asking for a signature to donate, while my client’s support person is asleep, and she said no).

Because I will Momma-Bear stand there at the nurses station for however long it takes while you search every last refrigerator for my client’s placenta.  And then come back with the donation team’s big sticker on it (and my client’s name).  They’re lucky it was the right temperature when they found it.  

And this is why I say keep your placenta with you at all times in the labeled cooler I send to you ahead of time.  (This particular client had an unexpected early delivery, had not had the chance to book yet, & did not have my labeled cooler & my printed instructions at her birth).

Yes, in almost every scenario: home birth, birth center, hospital birth, premature birth, induction, epidural, cesarean, gbs+, delayed cord clamping, cord blood banking.. all of these are ok to proceed with placenta encapsulation.  I provide instructions for proper care before I arrive.  *If your placenta must go to pathology, please request that only a small sample is taken, and proceed to safely store it, so that we may still encapsulate once cleared.

Yes!  My clients have been approved to pay for my Placenta Services using their tax-free HSA card and I have successfully accepted payments online, up front, on my invoice payment system.  (Invoice is detailed & itemized)

Depending on the preparation method you choose and size the size of the placenta, you could estimate between 120-200 size 0 capsules.  The pills are meant to be taken daily until gone, so you could estimate them lasting a couple of months or so.  The most pills I have given a client was 302!!!

Animal research is proven to accurately determine human anatomy and functions, and the animal research supports the benefits of Placentophagy (the consumption of the placenta). Not to mention, the personal testimonies of the placenta’s healing powers from women and midwives come from all around the world. There are also many medical accounts of mothers’ lives saved from hemorrhaging by ingesting a piece of placenta immediately after birth, as it stops internal bleeding. The most recent research has proven the placenta does retain nutrients after dehydration and is in no way harmful to Mother and Baby, from mother ingesting and then breastfeeding.  It is the only complete source of hormones & nutrients, that have been lost at birth.  The placenta is used in the medical world for its super stem cells, healing and regenerating skin for burn victims and much more.  When the placenta is not taken home from birth in a hospital, it is most likely NOT disposed of.

The placenta is widely accepted as the vegetarian-friendly meat because even our herbivorous animals, like the cow, consume their own placenta for the many benefits. It is the only source of protein we receive from a birth and not a death. There are no beings harmed in the process.

Dehydrating is an ancient preservation method. It does not cause any change in iron or fiber content and retains high nutritional and hormone levels in dehydrated foods.

I do not use any herbs. Feel free to take any herbs and supplements you would like separately.

Possible benefits include pain relief, increased energy, improved brain function, plentiful milk production, faster healing, reduced bleeding, improved mother-baby bonding, improved mood & emotions, and a balanced feeling of overall wellness.

No.  Your placenta is your property just like your baby!  Hospitals will either dispose of it or use it for other purposes.

Yes! There are no contraindications for consuming your placenta. It is completely safe and can help rebalance all the hormone madness that's probably been going on for you. To explain a little... During Gestational Diabetes, the hormones related to insulin spikes in the body have a lot more to do with the placenta mixing signals in the body of when 'this or that' is enough or not enough, and a tired and over-worked pancreas that responds slowly.  It requires a living placenta reacting to hormonal surges actively going on in the body.  Whereas ingesting a dehydrated placenta will not have the same bodily effect on the pancreas and liver that cause the insulin and hormone imbalances of Gestational Diabetes.  Also, you will not be consuming the entire placenta in one sitting. It's more like very small amounts over a few months. Many women who have had GD, have consumed their pills, and then have gone on to pass the 6 week postpartum blood test with no issue.

Yep!  It's true!  "Polypeptides" are sheep and cow placenta and they are used in many products because they are great sources for collagen building and many other benefits!  Sheep placenta can also be purchased in pill form and is often prescribed by Acupuncturist and Naturopathic doctors.

You definitely can! It is considered a modern day lotus birth if both Baby and Placenta are born attached. Baby can actually continue to receive oxygen and blood for up to 2 hours after birth. You will know when the placenta is finished transferring all of Baby’s blood and nutrients because the umbilical cord will turn white and collapse. You are able to choose cord burning or cutting. The placenta will need to be placed in a refrigerator within 2 hours after birth.