enhance your postpartum recovery and health

Clients who have chosen to encapsulate their placenta with The nurtured leaf have reported experiencing various benefits, including:

TNL client report

Over the past 11 years, I have collected data from previous TNL clients. Here are the most commonly reported benefits.

Survey Results from previous TNL Clients

  • 100% Recommend The Nurtured Leaf

  • 98% Would encapsulate again

  • 88% Increased energy levels

  • 88% Felt more balanced

  • 86% Increased milk supply

  • 78% Quicker healing

  • 77% Better mood

  • 75% Reduced anxiety

  • 73% Decreased feelings of sadness

top postpartum benefits reported by tnl clients

  1. increased energy levels

    Oxytocin and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) can help combat fatigue and release new sources of energy postpartum.

  2. increase breastmilk supply

    The placenta contains high concentrations of prolactin. Prolactin helps promote lactation and can increase overall milk supply.

  3. quicker wound healing

    Peer reviewed research has shown that several bioactive components of the placenta promote tissue regrowth and healing.

  4. better overall mood

    Placenta consumption can replenish estrogen and progesterone levels, which can help stabilize postpartum mood.

Study: Maternal Placenta Consumption Causes No Harm to Newborns

The largest study of its kind found mothers who consumed their placenta passed on no harm to their newborn babies.

— UNLV

Placentophagy Papers, Reviews & Studies: What They Really Mean

— APPA - Association of Placenta Preparation Arts

“Powdered placenta hominis was used for 57 cases of insufficient lactation. Within 4 days, 48 women had markedly increased milk production, with the remainder following suit over the next three days.”

-Bensky/Gamble. 1997. Materia Medica, Eastland Press, 549.

“Giving…placenta to a new mother following birth has become standard protocol among a growing number of midwives in the United States. By nourishing the blood and fluids, endocrine glands and organs, placenta will …reduce or stop postpartum bleeding, speed up recovery, boost energy and relieve postpartum blues.”

-Homes, Peter. 1993. Jade Remedies, Snow Lotus Press, 352.

“It has been shown that the feeding of desiccated placenta to women during the first eleven days after parturition causes an increase in the protein and lactose percent of the milk… all the mothers were receiving the same diet, and to the second set 0.6mg of desiccated placenta was fed three times a day throughout the period. Certain definite differences in the progress of growth of the two sets of infants are to be observed. It is evident that the recovery from the postnatal decline in weight is hastened by the consumption of milk produced under the influence of maternally ingested placenta.”

-McNeile, Lyle G. 1918. The American Journal Of Obstetrics And Diseases Of Women And Children, 77. W.A. Townsend & Adams, Original Press: University Of Michigan