After giving birth, most moms experience huge changes in their bodies. Not only do they start losing some of the baby weight, they also have to deal with their hormones being out of whack.
For some women, this means mood swings and fatigue, and it can may even lead to postpartum depression, anxiety, or psychosis.
There are many ways to treat hormonal changes after birth, and one thing some moms swear by is consuming their placenta. Some parents choose to put it into smoothies, while others make pizzas out of the afterbirth.
Most people who consume the placenta nowadays get it dehydrated and turned into pill form.
One mom is going further than consumption with her powdered placenta; 29-year-old Jordan Harrison has started making crafts and sweet treats out of her son's afterbirth.
She claims it's had hugely beneficial effects on her mood and even helps with her period pain. Now, she's branching out to create art projects with other women's powdered placentas.
[H/T: DailyMail]
When Jordan first heard about celebrities eating their placentas — something people like Kim Kardashian and January Jones have done — she was baffled.
And when she got pregnant with her first child, she had absolutely no interest in consuming her placenta.
When she gave birth to her daughter, Avery, she let the midwife dispose of the afterbirth.
Although she didn't want to keep it, Jordan was fascinated by the placenta. She thought it was incredibly cool.
Over the years, Jordan read more and more about the benefits of eating placenta, and she found herself really interested in trying it out.
So, when she got pregnant with her second baby, she looked into placenta encapsulation.
After giving birth to her son, Ezra, Jordan took the placenta home with her.
Once at home, she gave the placenta a water bath, sliced it up, and dehydrated it. When it was dry, she ground it up into a really fine powder.
Jordan began by taking the powdered placenta in pill form, and she immediately felt a difference.
With Avery, she'd suffered from postpartum depression, but she never even had anything close with Ezra. She credits the placenta pills with the difference.
Now, Jordan consumes the powdered placenta in a variety of ways.
Not only does she use it in soups and smoothies, she also creates chocolates with it by using cocoa, coconut oil, and honey/sugar.
According to Jordan, the chocolates taste pretty normal, except for a bit of a salty flavor.
The two huge bars that she made after Ezra was born have lasted her three years, and she still eats the chocolate today.
Later, Jordan decided she wanted to help other women through pregnancy and birth, so she became a doula.
As a doula, she attends hospital and home births, supports mothers throughout and after their pregnancies, and has also been trained to process placentas at home.
Jordan doesn't just encapsulate placentas for other women, she also creates artwork and crafts for them as keepsakes.
Some of the creative things Jordan does with placentas include making prints with the organ, creating jewelry with the powder, and even creating Christmas ornaments.
Jordan loves helping mothers and moms-to-be learn about their placentas.
She told PA Real Life, "It's such a fascinating organ, and the fact that you can turn it into powder form makes it really versatile. I don't want this information to be exclusive to me, either. I want to help people."
When it comes to making jewelry out of the afterbirth, Jordan says, "It's fun for people to be able to say that they wear a bit of their placenta every day."
Her newest creation is the placenta Christmas ornament, which she creates by mixing the powder with gold glitter before painting it onto the ornament.
Would you wear placenta jewelry or decorate your Christmas tree with placenta ornaments?
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