EBB 7: Evidence on placenta encapsulation
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
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🗓️ 12 January 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
- Frequently marketed claims about placenta encapsulation
- How many experimental trials have ever been done with placenta encapsulation
- Results from the newest randomized, placebo-controlled trial on placenta encapsulation
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk about the evidence on |
| 0:04.2 | placenta encapsulation. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the evidence Space Birth Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Join us each week as I tackle the evidence on another hot topic about childbirth. |
| 0:18.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:21.0 | See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi this is Rebecca Decker and I'm your host. I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of |
| 0:35.7 | Evidence Based Birth. In today's podcast we're going to talk about the |
| 0:39.7 | evidence on placenta Incapsulation. |
| 0:43.0 | Today's question comes from Michelle, a midwife. |
| 0:46.2 | Michelle asked me, is there evidence to support the use of encapsulating |
| 0:50.9 | your placenta to prevent postpartum depression or to increase milk supply? |
| 0:56.0 | Well that's a great question and it's one I get all the time. |
| 0:59.3 | What's the evidence for placenta encapsulation? |
| 1:02.4 | Well the placenta is your body's temporary organ |
| 1:04.6 | that delivers nutrients and oxygen to the baby during the pregnancy and the |
| 1:08.9 | placenta also removes waste for the baby. Up until recently the only evidence we had on taking your |
| 1:15.2 | placenta, in other words, dehydrating it and putting it into little capsules |
| 1:20.1 | which you swallow, this is called placenta Incapsulation. Well the only research on |
| 1:25.0 | this came from very very old studies. There was one very old experimental trial |
| 1:30.0 | from 1918 a hundred years ago and another one from the 1950s. |
| 1:36.0 | And these were very poor quality studies that did not give us any valid information. |
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