“Eating placenta pills could harm your baby,” USA Today said . Etsy now sells T-shirts celebrating “placenta love” and $50 keepsake pendants made from placenta and breast milk, while birth photography — another relatively recent phenomenon — has elevated the organ to art . The baby’s doctors determined that the likely source of the recurring infection were contaminated placenta pills the mother had been taking since giving birth. Megan King is a 33-year-old registered nurse and mother of two who ordered placenta pills after her second child was born in 2013. She’d heard about placenta encapsulation through her work at a Pennsylvania-based birth center as well as in a hospital.

Source: Huffington Post August 29, 2017 18:33 UTC