IN-HOME POST PARTUM SERVICES
The postpartum period is one of the most important and tender times of life — a phase of healing, bonding, and adjustment after welcoming your newborn. Compassionate, midwifery support during this time can make all the difference.
Midwives provide expert, holistic care during the postpartum period, ensuring that you and your baby are thriving. In-home visits are especially beneficial following a hospital birth, when there is often a two-week gap before a follow-up appointment with your provider.
Our midwifery postpartum offerings support your physical recovery, emotional well-being, and breastfeeding success. We offer:
Placenta Encapsulation to support hormonal balance and recovery
Breastfeeding Support and guidance for a successful nursing relationship
Moxibustion and Massage for warmth, circulation, and postpartum womb healing
Postpartum Sitz Baths for gentle perineal healing and relaxation
Closing of the Bones traditional healing practice and ritual for new mamas
You may order single service items, mix and match individual services or choose a customized package based on your needs.
A thoughtful and nourishing gift for yourself—or for someone you love—to experience the comfort and care of midwifery support after birth.
Placenta Encapsulation
The possible benefits of placenta encapsulation include: a decrease in postpartum mood disorders, increased production of oxytocin, a decrease in stress hormones, restoration of iron levels following bleeding after birth, and increased milk supply. Data, in a small study, has demonstrated that following the preparation process, hormones do remain present in placentas. Research has found that levels of both progesterone and estradiol are present at high enough levels that they could cause physiological effects when consumed. Placenta encapsulation has demonstrated to assist with mood stabilization through supplementing oxytocin levels. Additionally, this suggests that placenta encapsulation has a potential regulatory effect on postpartum hormones, which can affect both postpartum mood and milk supply.
No large randomized study currently exists to suggest that there are any risks associated with placenta encapsulation. On very rare occasions some women report that they feel jittery or have an increase in anxiety, much like feeling over caffeinated, after consuming their encapsulated placenta. It’s possible for women to experience a decrease in milk supply as opposed to an increase in milk supply following the ingestion of their placenta. Each individual must evaluate whether or not placenta encapsulation is right for them.