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Does eating placenta offer postpartum health beneﬁts?

Article written by Michelle Beacock (IPEN Specialist) - When Michelle first started training as an IPEN Specialist she was also undertaking midwifery training as a student midwife. She used her third year of her midwifery studies to look at the evidence behind placenta encapsulation and wrote an article about the subject matter which was published in [...] Read more »

A guide to eating placenta.

By Frankie Mullin, contributor, MSN Her. There’s been a whole lot of talk about placentas recently, what with Holly Willoughby admitting she might be tempted and Kim Kardashian revealing that she’ll be chowing down on hers in a bid to “look younger”. And, whilst Hol and Kim chew over the issue (so to speak), January Jones [...] Read more »

Lynnea Shrief explains placenta encapsulation on ITVs This Morning

WATCH VIDEO HERE! IPEN Founder Lynnea Shrief explains placenta encapsulation on ITVs This Morning program aired Wednesday 5 June 2013. Holly and Phil checking out some placenta capsules. Read more »

Kim Kardashian is planning to eat her placenta “I really want to do it!”

“I really want to do it!” says celebrity Kim Kardashian about eating her own placenta after birth. She discussed the option with her doctor after finding out she’s having a baby girl with rap star Kanye West. He didn’t discourage her either. Kim Kardashian is planning to eat her placenta says Hollywood Life http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/06/03/kim-kardashian-placenta-eat-afterbirth-baby/ Celebrities [...] Read more »