Placenta Medicine
honoring your placenta
The placenta is an incredibly precious organ, symbolizing a child’s roots in the motherland and serving as a nurturing and protective force throughout pregnancy. Rich in nutrients, the placenta offers countless benefits for mothers during the postpartum period, from supporting emotional balance and lactation to enhancing energy levels and aiding in recovery.
There are many ways to honor your placenta, whether through consumption, art, or a meaningful offering to Pachamama. The placenta medicine I offer allows you to preserve and celebrate this sacred connection, with options such as encapsulations, tinctures, creams, and special keepsakes. Additionally, I provide unique readings that connect the placenta to family lineage and spiritual insights, creating a powerful remembrance of this transformative time.
Keeping the placenta after birth is your family’s right, and honoring it is a deeply personal journey, as unique as the bond it represents.
Placenta encapsulation
Tincture
Several skin disorders
The placenta cream is made with the placenta and a combination of food for your family's skin, like shea butter and coconut oil. It takes about 2 days to be ready for use.
Benefits: therapeutic massage on baby and family; assists with collagenases healing the wounds; healing and skin regeneration (bites, rash, psoriasis, and others); skin hydration.
The sound of your womb
This is one of the most beautiful memoirs one can make. It is a small drum, which you can play with your fingers, and it sounds like your pulse. Very gentle, and meaningful object to have.
Umbilical cord garden
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A spiritual approach
Based on the Andean wisdom, it is possible to make several readings on the placenta. We offer two readings: lineage reading to get information about the family lineage, and the baby's power animal reading. Both readings are made in the most loving way to give you what else your placenta has to offer you. A placenta is also an oracle, and it stays with us forever.
Tamborcito
To consume in the weeks and months after birth
Placenta encapsulation consists in dehydrating the placenta and encapsulating it. The process takes on average two days and can be made up to 5 months after delivery (when the placenta was kept frozen).
Benefits: indicated for decreasing baby blues symptoms; it increases milk production; improvement in mood swings; iron replacement after birth; an increase of energy.
To consume for life
The tincture is made in a process that takes about 6 weeks. Tinctures are a great way to keep placenta medicine for longer as it is made with alcohol. When properly stored, the family can use it for a very long time.
At Ventre, we make three different kinds of tincture: mother tincture, father tincture, and umbilical cord tincture. According to Andean wisdom, each one of the tinctures can assist with different things. The umbilical cord tincture can be used for the arteries, bronchi, lymphatic, nervous, urinary, respiratory, and digestive systems. The best tincture for the baby's first year.
Benefits: assists in regenerating the vital force and strengthening the immune system; balances the emotional and physical; assists in the postpartum, during your menstrual cycle it is indicated for PMS; menopause; insomnia; stress; and can also assist in cases of anxiety.
Ointments
Reading of the placenta
Amulet
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To guard the baby
In the Andean tradition, an amulet is made with the placenta. The amulet is to be kept by the baby's mother until the baby turns 7 years of age. After that, the baby's father is responsible for keeping the amulet safe. When the child turns 14 years of age, the amulet is handed to his/her godmother or godfather. It is only when the child turns 21 years of age, that he/she will be responsible for their amulet. It is a very beautiful passage ritual.
To keep the connection between worlds
The garden is made with spices and dried flowers. Inside it is placed the baby's dried umbilical cord. A pretty and gentle memoir.
Placenta print
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The baby's map
The print is the first thing to do with the placenta after it is born and detached from the baby. The placenta keeps the map of the baby's lineage on the baby's side of it, so the side where we see the Tree of life. On the mother's side, we can read the baby's animal power. Which is a totem that will follow the baby during his/her life.
Disclaimer
Due to the delicacy of this medicine, it cannot be bought as a gift.
Only the owner of the placenta can order any placental medicine to be made.
Any advice or information provided by Placenta Practice regarding Placenta Encapsulation is based on experience, research, documentation, and client testimonials from mothers who have used placenta capsules for their post-partum recovery. We are not a medical body and do not claim to treat, cure or relieve any symptoms in pregnancy, birth, or post-birth. We recommend you seek advice from your GP or midwife if you have any problems with your pregnancy, birth, or post-birth recovery. Families who choose to use our services take full responsibility for their own health and for researching and using the remedies we provide.
Fernanda was my doula in my second pregnancy. She did an excellent job informing me about everything in pregnancy, childbirth and post partum. She is a very up-to-date and dear Person and helped me to realize my much dreamed home vbac. Having her by my side was wonderful. I wish everyone could have someone like her.
She was also the guardian of my placenta. She made the tree of life, amulet, tamborcito and the capsules that gave me strength and energy in the postpartum. I highly recommend her.
Thabata Azevedo
When I found out the placenta medicine work done by Fern (the Herbalist doula), I got really happy that I could honor this incredible organ after my son’s birth. I got the package that included the encapsulation, tincture, cream, tamborcito, small garden, prints, baby power animal and family lineage reading and I didn’t regret it because besides having the medicines, I could have the arts made with the placenta and the umbilical cord to always keep them with me as a beautiful memory translated into these objects.
I am really grateful for having had Fern taking care of my placenta with all love and carefulness!
Mayara Maracajá Reis
Fern has been working and caring for me since before I decided I wanted to get pregnant. With her help I was able to understand that my fertility goes way beyond having babies, it’s about our female health, and she assisted me reconnecting with myself. She has always supporter my through every phase, from pre-natal, birth, and post-natal with foods, placenta medicine, herbs, natural healing soaps and creams, and she’s also just an amazing humam being. I recommend her Doula and Herbalist services to all women, no matter ehat phase of life you find yourself in, it is always important to care for our body and soul ❤️
Frequently asked questions
What can I do with the placenta after birth?
Your placenta can be turned into some powerful remedies and art following birth. Not only do you have the choice between two methods of encapsulation; Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) or Simple Placenta Capsules. You can also opt for some oils, balms, and some long-term remedies, such as tincture. If you are interested in ideas of what to do to honor your placenta after birth, check this blog.
What does it mean to have my placenta encapsulated?
Placenta Encapsulation refers to the processing of the placenta, or via the Raw method, or via Chinese Method, to end up as capsul.es The placenta is processed by a trained specialist and goes through various stages, over a number of hours, finally ending up in powder form. New processed placenta powder is then encapsulated, or put into capsules. To check the differences between methods and recommendations, check this blog.
What are the benefits of placenta consumption?
Placenta is scientifically proven to contain some of the bodies most important vitamins, minerals and hormones. Placenta pills are believed to benefit the body in a number of ways, which can include; quicker and increased milk production, possible protection against PND, helps facilitate bonding with your baby, help with anaemia, increased energy levels and so much more.
If I have a medicated birth or caesarean section can I still use my placenta for encapsulation and/or other placenta remedies?
Yes, you can still use your placenta if you have a cesarean birth as long as your placenta has not been sent to pathology. We recommend you have a clean leakproof 1.5-2L container ready to store your placenta after birth. If you are delivering in the hospital, they usually have containers for you to keep your placenta.
What if I am Strep-B positive or have a uterine or placental infection and need antibiotics, will I still be able to use my placenta?
Strep-B, GBS infection requires you to request steamed capsules (Chinese Method) only. We recommend your placenta is steamed before encapsulation to ensure the strep-b bacteria is killed at high heat before dehydrating your placenta.
Are there any circumstances when it would not be possible to use the placenta for encapsulation or other placenta remedies?
Yes. If your placenta has been sent to pathology in the hospital for any reason we do not recommend you consume your placenta because it may have been contaminated while in the pathology lab of the hospital. You can request the hospital to take a small sample or swab of your placenta for examination in this instance and you can freeze your placenta to await test results before continuing with placenta remedies.
How do I store my placenta safely after birth?
After the placenta is born and checked by your midwifery team, you can ask them to place it in a container (1.5l or 2l) and store it in the fridge. It is important to be in the fridge within 3 hours from birth. You can keep the placenta in the fridge for up to 4 days, but if it needs to wait longer, then it is recommended to place it in the freezer.
For how long can I keep the placenta in the freezer?
If you wish to consume your placenta (capsules, tinctures, oils, etc) it is advisable to process it as soon as possible, but not after six months of being in the freezer. If you wish to have art made with the placenta, there is not time limit for freezing storage.
How many capsules you can make with one placenta?
It will always depend on the size of the placenta. Usually, between 80 and 200, depending on the chosen method. Raw method gives more capsules than the Steamed method. If you opt to add herbs to your capsules, naturally there will be more capsules.
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