Placenta Alchemy
Does the idea of throwing your baby’s placenta away as bio-waste not sit right with you, but you also really don’t like the idea of encapsulating?
Placenta Alchemy is one of many methods of honoring your placenta.
This organ is your baby’s “womb-mate”, or “twin” as some describe it. Your body grows your baby’s placenta. Some view the placenta as a beautiful opportunity to help replenish what was lost during birth from a hormone and mineral viewpoint and offer replenishment in the form of placenta encapsulation*.
This is different. This is not placenta encapsulation.
This is placenta alchemy.
When you are ready after the birth of your baby and his/her placenta (typically within the first few days postpartum but this can be done with any frozen placenta as well) I examine your baby’s placenta alongside you so you can see and appreciate what your body created.
Over the course of a few hours, you can have two different types of placenta remedies, all created in the comfort of your home while you are being tended to and nourished.
The placenta is the only thing on this planet that has the same energetic vibration as the baby it grew alongside. How incredible is it to have your baby’s personal medicine in your cabinet for years to come!?
PLACENTA ALCHEMY:
Using a Traditional Chinese Midwife method the placenta will be transformed through fire and reduced in size, and then ground down using a mortar and pestle. Over the course of the following days, it can be sprinkled over your nourishing meals, and the majority saved and stored for the years to come.
PLACENTAL REMEDY:
Another option to utilize your baby’s placenta is a homeopathic remedy for both you and your baby.
The placenta is also used in homeopathic medicine as a remedy. Original research into the placental remedy, Placenta humanum, has indicated its benefit in the treatment of conditions where the child’s immune system has failed to respond effectively to a challenge or illness. If the remedy is prepared from the child’s own placenta, it provides an added individualized boost to overcome the child’s own particular inherited tendencies.
Both of these options can be made during the same postpartum visit and are a great way to extend the life and medicine of your baby’s placenta.
This is intended to be done within a postpartum package and not intended to be a single service as it takes approximately 6-8 hours.**
Deepest bow of gratitude to my teacher, Whapio of The Matrona for these teachings and understanding of this practice.
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*I encapsulated my first baby’s placenta and could tell a shift in my mental state navigating a very unsupported and depleted 4th trimester and I still was diagnosed with what the allopathic system would call “postpartum mood disorders”.
-PLACENTA ENCAPSULATION DOES NOT REPLACE SUPPORT IN THE 4TH TRIMESTER-
I went on to encapsulate placentas for clients and even taught my husband how to encapsulate my placenta with our next live birth.
In the days following my son’s birth, my husband asked me a couple of times when I wanted him to encapsulate our son’s placenta. It never felt right… I had no desire to encapsulate and it stayed in our freezer until almost a year old, I removed it and both Atlas and I had the opportunity to appreciate his organ, and eventually, we went ahead with placenta alchemy for him to utilize as he grows as it is his organ, his vibration, and his medicine.
al·che·my | /ˈalkəmē/
a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination. The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter.