Monthly Archives: January 2012

Placenta Consumption?

When I say placenta consumption what image comes into your mind? Slow cooked tender and juicy? Yeah I didn’t so.  The idea is pretty foreign to most westerners, but did you know that every mammal (besides humans) actually eats the placenta after birth? Turns out the placenta is packed full of nutrients which are beneficial to women recovering from childbirth. The most exciting benefit of placenta consumption is the lower rates of postpartum depression!

So here’s a little hint that might make the idea a little less revolting… encapsulation. Did you know that you can ship off you placenta and have it professionally encapsulated? Each day you get to take a little placenta pill. Sounds doable right?

For more information visit http://placentabenefits.info/

Movie Review: Pregnant in America

My kind words are that I felt like this movie had some valuable information in it. Overall my biggest complaint about the film is simply bad luck in timing. This film was released the same year as The Business of Being Born just several months later. That rendered basically all of the content of the… Continue Reading