Living the (semi) Crunchy Life

I met with my doula last night. She was everything I dreamed of and more. I didn't have a doula with Scout and honestly I really didn't even think I would this time around. The main reason I was meeting with her is because.....

DUM. DUM. DUUUUUM!!!

I am going to ingest my placenta after the baby is born. (Please don't run away yet!!!)

She is the only person around here that will do placenta encapsulation, but after meeting her she will be right by my side when I push this baby out. Now I can only imagine your faces right now. What?! She's is going to EAT her placenta?!?! It is dehydrated and then turned into powder and placed in capsules. It's all good.

Here are some facts about ingesting your placenta after birth:

contain your own natural hormones


be perfectly made for you


balance your system


replenish depleted iron


give you more energy


lessen bleeding postnatally


been shown to increase milk production


help you have a happier postpartum period


hasten return of uterus to pre-pregnancy state


be helpful during menopause


(from placentabenefits.info)

I expierenced horrible post partum depression after Scout. It started about 3 months after I had her. I had horrible thoughts about myself, I didn't feel like living, honestly it was the worst mind fuck I have ever had in my life. You would think that right after having such a beautiful child I would have been over the moon! When Scout was about a year old I came across an article about ingesting your placenta. I was so intrigued that I started researching anything and everything I could on the subject. I watched YouTube videos of people actually eating raw and cooked placenta. Everything I came across made so much sense to me. I had this overwhelming feeling that if only I would have done that with Scout's placenta everything would have been so much better. I would have breastfed longer than 5 months because I wouldn't have needed my xanax to survive. I would have been a happier momma, not so on edge, more relaxed.
The day I found out I was pregnant I immediatly thought I get to ingest my placenta!! Then I cried. Haha!

I have heard everything from it's disgusting, we are a civilized society now, that's cannabilism. EVERYTHING. I have such a different perspective on it. I feel like no matter what we are still mammals. There is a reason they eat their placentas after birth!!! Humans have also done it until someone told someone else that we shouldn't. That is was gross. Just how breastfeeding has become gross. It blows my mind. Gross to me is having to resort to other medicines, such as xanax, because your hormones are so out of whack after giving birth because the hospital trashed your most important medicine!

I know not everyone feels the same way that I do, and that's perfectly fine! The only thing I hope for is that us humans do not give up on instinct. I believe it is the one, true thing that connects us back to ourselves. Your body knows what is right, always listen to it.

Unless your strung out on crack or something, then I would ignore everything.

If you are in the Oklahoma City and surrounding areas you can find my doula, Taryn Goodwin, at SpiritedDoula.com