Placenta Services

placenta capsules
Many people are turning to placenta encapsulation to improve their chances of having a smoother postpartum period. At Two Hands Birth Services, placenta services are provided by a trained placenta specialist. A skilled professional trained to safely transform your placenta into capsules you can consume, just like a daily multi-vitamin, and is also an expert in supporting postpartum mothers and newborns.

Some of the things the placenta can help with:
  • Preventing and lessening the risk of postpartum depression or ‘baby blues’
  • Replenishing your iron from blood loss during birth and to prevent postpartum anemia
  • Lending you a consistent flow of oxytocin long after your birth euphoria ends
  • Providing the HPL hormone to help establish early and healthy milk supply
  • To stabilize your ever changing hormones post birth
  • To replenish your B vitamins and energy that were used during the labor and birthing process
  • Protection from infection and bleeding due to retained placenta tissue or membranes
  • Offer natural pain relief from the labor and birth of the baby 

Our placenta specialist maintains the highest standards for the safe handling of your placenta, including certification in OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens and New Jersey Food Handlers Program. Our placenta specialist is also trained by International Placenta & Postpartum Association (IPPA) and in the process of certification.

The basic placenta  service package includes, a free consultation, your Capsules, a Placenta Print, an umbilical Cord Keepsake (keepsake provided when possible and if desired). You will also receive a postpartum visit or call.*

​The Basic Package is $250.

Add-ons

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Two Hands Birth Services also offers long-lasting placenta tinctures and healing herbal salves as an add-on to encapsulation.

Placenta tinctures are long-lasting solutions made by infusing your dehydrated and ground placenta in alcohol over a number of weeks. While you'll consume all your placenta capsules in the immediate weeks and months following your birth, a tincture will last for many months and even years. People choosing to have a placenta tincture made use it at times of stress or change (like the return of your cycle, weaning from breastfeeding, and even menopause).
Placenta Tincture $35
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Placenta Salves are an herbal salve infused with your placenta. A special selection of herbs are combined with some of your dehydrated placenta powder and infused in a blend of oils. The oil is then strained of  the herbs and placenta powder, leaving you a healing salve that can be used topically on most any skin irritation - including surgical incisions or your recovering perineum. 
Placenta Salve $50

​* The basic placenta package includes pick-up of your placenta from your birthing location and drop off of your completed capsules to your home. If you are located outside of our 30 mile service area there will be an additional charge of $20. Please contact us for more information.