Placenta Benefits.info - Brenda Ojala, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, Southeastern, North Carolina

Brenda Ojala - Coastal Carolinas

It's a rather unlikely story, how I came to be involved with placenta encapsulation. In 2007, before I was a wife and mother, I had a very vivid dream about eating the afterbirth. I was intrigued by my dream. What did it mean? Although I had been present at two births of friends' children and most of my friends have children, at this time I had very limited knowledge of the entire process of pregnancy and childbirth, so I began researching the birthing process.

I delved into studying birthing, and researched the complete birthing process for months. I studied in detail the purpose of the placenta and placentophagy as I tried to find the meaning of my dream; that is how I stumbled across Placenta Benefits*. Meanwhile, I married my husband Arvi, and three months later, we found out we were pregnant. I became interested in homeopathic medicine and herbal remedies and decided I wanted to make all decisions about my health and the health of my unborn baby based on the natural resources God had provided for us to heal ourselves. I continued to research birth, and found I embraced the idea that birth is a totally normal phenomenon and not a medical event.

I met many people who supported the home birth movement, and although it is not legal in my state for a midwife to deliver a baby at home, I decided that was the birth experience I desired. I talked with my midwife about my dream, about eating my placenta, and she was completely supportive and even helped with the process of helping me encapsulate my placenta. My son Ryan was born peacefully at home in September 2008, I could not believe the incredible joy and energy I had during the postpartum period, and it was VERY noticeable to others. I knew then that this was something I had to share with other women, and I am excited to be serving women by helping them heal themselves through placenta encapsulation.

I am continually amazed by the placenta and its unique power to heal. Each time I encapsulate a placenta, I gain an even deeper appreciation for its utility and value. The postpartum stories of each new mom I serve only bolster my excitement and determination to help raise awareness of the incredible gift of the placenta, so more women can have a joyous, energetic, and well balanced postpartum experience. The more I work with moms and their placentas, the more people I talk to, the more research I study, the more I learn about the placenta itself, the more motivated I become to delve even deeper into this phenomenon. I have definitely become a placenta advocate!

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