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Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy

Placenta Encapsulation: Should You Eat Your Placenta? Benefits, Risks & Postpartum Recovery w/Dr. Sophia Johnson

Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy

My Essential Birth

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Some moms swear placenta pills changed their postpartum recovery…others say they did nothing. So what’s actually true? Today I'm sitting down with Dr. Sophia Johnson. She's a physician, researcher, and author who spent a decade studying the placenta inside a university lab in Germany. (Fun fact: in Germany, the placenta is literally called Mutterkuchen: "mother's cake." 🎂 After this episode, you'll understand why. ) We're diving into the actual science of consuming it: which preparation me...

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With Easter and this season of new beginnings, if you're pregnant you might be thinking, I just want to feel prepared. I don't want to freak out if things don't go as planned. You're not alone. That's exactly why I created my essential birth. Right now, through April 7th, you can get $100 off, just $197, plus my belly mapping guide and breastfeeding supply guide, helping get your baby in the right position for birth and giving you everything you need to make sure you're feeding baby properly postpartum.

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I want that moms are in their power and that they can grow and feed their baby as they want to.

0:41.8

And if placenta can help, then I'm happy.

0:45.0

But I'm not a big pharma company that wants to sell any product.

0:49.0

I'm not doing big press campaigns for this.

0:52.7

I'm just looking at mothers

0:54.8

and I collected field reports

0:56.8

from mothers who consumed their placenta

0:58.6

and I was so happy reading

1:00.3

that they had this remedy

1:02.0

helping them through the really exhausted first year.

1:06.5

And this is what makes me happy

1:08.6

and also this is what drives my research.

1:15.7

Getting pregnant and giving birth are two of the most exciting things you can ever hope to

1:20.8

experience in this life.

1:22.4

The moment you think you could be pregnant, you're frantically searching for all the best

1:26.2

information, which is why you're

1:27.9

here today. I'm Stephanie King and with my many years of experience as a professional childbirth

1:33.2

educator, doula and lover of all things, pregnancy birth and postpartum, I'm here to make preparing

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