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[quote=Anonymous]To actually answer the question for you:  
We encapsulated my placenta ourselves at home after birth with a $60 dehydrator, an old blender, and some empty pill capsules from Amazon.  Yes, it smelled kind of funny, and yes, there is a weird burp-taste afterwards similar to fish burp from fish oil pills.  I found that if I took the pills really fast with a cup of apple cider or strong flavored drink, they went down much easier and the "placenta-taste" was mostly in my mind.  This is my first child, so I don't know if things would have gone differently otherwise or not, but my postpartum period was very smooth, even though I had feared postpartum depression.  I still was weepy, but it was always just from being tired.  It was never more than a mild case of the baby blues from being exhausted and nursing all day.  I had read that people felt they had more energy when they took the pills, but I found that they helped me get much better rest (i took my most awesome naps the days that I took the pills) thus having more energy.  And I'm not sure if it helped with postpartum bleeding as I had read it would.  I bled for a full six weeks, though it never was worse than the heaviest day of my normal period.  I took a few again at about 3 months postpartum because I was really feeling exhausted and down (apparently there's another hormonal shift at this time) and now I have the rest of the jar in the back of my fridge.  I've heard that along with saving them for menopause, they can be really helpful during your menstrual cycle.[/quote]

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