Explore SF Placenta Encapsulation: 9 Personalized Services

Placenta Chef Services

Chef services are reserved for San Francisco clients. I will come to your home to be your personal placenta chef. This is an option best suited for homebirth clients, but can be arranged for those who give birth at a hospital as well. (Best to be a meal you have within a few days of the birth.)

This includes a stir fry dinner with customized options, smoothie packets, and also pills if you would like to reserve a portion of your placenta for encapsulation.

The optional complimentary items are also available with this package: a photo, cord-keepsake (if doing partial pills) and/or blood print.

Placenta Encapsulation

Your placenta prepared by Tomi into pill form. Her unique recipe involves steaming the placenta to medium rare, then dehydrating for 1.5 hrs at 131 degrees, then dropping down to 117 degrees for the remaining dehydration. (usually around 13 hours).

The capsules she uses are high quality and very easy to digest. They are size 00 tapioca capsules from Capsule Connection. If you have a hard time swallowing pills, you can request “Powder-form only”

Optional Complimentary Items

Blood Print: Made by pressing drawing paper to the fetal side of your placenta using the maternal blood as “the medium”.

Cord-keepsake: This is part of your baby’s umbilical cord dehydrated in the shape of a heart, infinity sign, or circle.

Photo: Obviously not everyone wants to see their placenta, but for those that do, you can have me take a photo, and send it via text or email!

Price list

Placenta Chef Services

Includes a stir fry, smoothie pieces, and/or dehydrating the rest into pills. $400

Placenta Encapsulation

All these options also include an optional complimentary photo, blood print, and/or cord-keepsake.

Note: Sliding scale is available to families with a combined income of less than 30,000 a year. Please contact me to inquire about the sliding scale. I offer this to 1 client per month.

Add-ons

Prices A LA CARTE (with no encapsulation or chef services)

Note for SF clients only : You also have the option of me performing the encapsulation at your residence, if you own a food dehydrator.

Placenta Burial Ceremony

Many Native Americans and Indigenous cultures from around the world bury the placenta.

If you are feeling drawn to honoring your baby’s placenta in this way, but aren’t quite sure how to go about doing it, allow me to help.

We will have a brief intake phone call sometime after the birth, and then I will come to your home to help facilitate a personalized sacred placenta burial ceremony.

It’s a wonderful way honor your body, your baby, the land, and also a time to perhaps process some big feelings around the pregnancy, the birth, etc.

Best around 6 weeks postpartum and can also be on the same day as a closing of the bones ceremony

Cost is $200

Paint Print

Create a lasting memory with a custom paint print of your placenta. A paint print differs from a blood print, in that the blood is washed off, and your color choice is applied to the fetal side of your placenta. Paper is then pressed against it to make the print or series of prints. The paint is applied with gloves and q-tips. White drawing paper is most often used, but black drawing paper is recommended when making a gold print.

*Note: The paint I use is non-toxic, and I am very careful to wash off every last trace of paint, before proceeding with the encapsulation process.

Tincture

Placenta Tincture is a way to get the most out of your placenta because it won’t expire and can be used for menopause 10-20 years down the road. It is made by taking a raw dime-size portion of the maternal side of the placenta, and steeping in 100 proof alcohol for 6 weeks. It is then strained through a coffee filter into a 4 oz. amber or blue dropper bottle. Store in a cool dark place and it will keep indefinitely. Take 8-10 drops in some water/day to balance hormones during PMS or menopause.

Frozen Smoothie Pieces

This is three small, dime sized raw pieces from your placenta, frozen, and placed in a zip lock bag. You blend the pieces into 12-24 ounces of your favorite smoothie or shake. Don’t worry, you won’t taste them at that ratio. The reason one might eat a few raw pieces after the birth is because it is more potent than the cooked (pill) version.

Recommended for GBS negative clients only.

Placenta Broth

The Broth is what’s leftover after steaming your placenta. (and I add a small piece of placenta to the water while cooking) It yields about 12 oz. of liquid that goes best in a stew or soup. I recommend 1/2 placenta broth and 1/2 beef broth, or steep it with your favorite tea and sip slowly. It’s meant as a nourishing tonic and has similar benefits to a bone broth.