09/07/2012
Placenta Tablets Offered To New NI Mums
New mothers in Northern Ireland are being offered the chance to eat their placentas in smoothie or capsule form after childbirth.
Hazel Mayger, who recently trained with the Independent Placenta Encapsulation Network, has become the first person in Northern Ireland to offer placenta encapsulation.
Ms Mayger said: "People are often shocked to think of women eating their own placentas, but many cultures have been practicing this for centuries and other mammals have been benefiting from the healing power of placenta by eating it raw after birth since the dawn of time."
Blood loss during childbirth can leave women tired and faint or give them anaemia, symptoms which the network claim placenta consumption can cure.
And January Jones of the TV series Mad Men recently attributed her quick return to work after giving birth to having eaten her own dried placenta in tablet form.
Ms Mayger said new mums who consume placenta smoothies stop bleeding sooner than those who don't.
The Banbridge resident works across Northern Ireland as a birth and postnatal adviser and has now diversified into providing placenta smoothies, tinctures and capsules.
She is a trained nutritionist but she told the Belfast Telegraph: "I wish that I had known about the benefits of placenta consumption after my own births."
(NE/GK)
Hazel Mayger, who recently trained with the Independent Placenta Encapsulation Network, has become the first person in Northern Ireland to offer placenta encapsulation.
Ms Mayger said: "People are often shocked to think of women eating their own placentas, but many cultures have been practicing this for centuries and other mammals have been benefiting from the healing power of placenta by eating it raw after birth since the dawn of time."
Blood loss during childbirth can leave women tired and faint or give them anaemia, symptoms which the network claim placenta consumption can cure.
And January Jones of the TV series Mad Men recently attributed her quick return to work after giving birth to having eaten her own dried placenta in tablet form.
Ms Mayger said new mums who consume placenta smoothies stop bleeding sooner than those who don't.
The Banbridge resident works across Northern Ireland as a birth and postnatal adviser and has now diversified into providing placenta smoothies, tinctures and capsules.
She is a trained nutritionist but she told the Belfast Telegraph: "I wish that I had known about the benefits of placenta consumption after my own births."
(NE/GK)
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