How To Encapsulate the Placenta

I haven't posted my birth story yet. While I continue to work on composing it, I'd like to share another accomplishment. After the birth, my placenta was put in freezer for later use. Today, I thawed it out and processed it into pills. Here's how I did it...

 I took this beauty, rinsed all the excess blood off and blotted with paper towels.

I added lemon, ginger and hot pepper to a pot with water and a steamer basket. 

On go the placenta and the lid to be steamed for 20 minutes

Here's the cooked placenta. It shrunk a lot! 

 Next, the cord and the membrane get trimmed off. No Baxter, I'm not making dog treats!

 The trimmed placenta gets sliced into thin strips

 The strips are spread out on a baking sheet

 Popped them in the oven for a few hours on the lowest setting

 Once they're dry and brittle like jerky, they're done

 

 The jerky gets ground into a fine powder by using a mortar and pestle

I lined my pill machine with capsules and filled it with the powder.

Spread it out with a card

Tamped it down, then put the caps on all the pills.

Final result...76 capsules of my placenta that are now in my freezer ready to be consumed!