UK Doulas, Midwives and Hospitals that support placenta encapsulation:

• Rights of Passage Midwifery - Enfield, Greater London

• Sunrise Birthing - Independent Midwife - Sussex

• Surrey Independent Midwives

• Your Birth Doula 

• Simply Birth Doula

• DoulaCare

• Doula UK

• Mother Nuture Doula 

• The Birth Unit - St. John's and St. Elizabeth Private Hospital - St. John's Wood, London

• Epsom and St. Helier Hospital NHS Homebirth Midwives - Surrey

Websites that recommend placenta encapsulation:

• Gentlebirth

• Mothers 35 Plus

• Placenta Apothercary

• Make your own homoeopathic placenta remedy or Mother tincture - www.placentalremedy.com

Books that recommend the use of the placenta post-birth:

• SEX, TIME AND POWER - HOW WOMEN'S SEXUALITY SHAPED HUMAN EVOLUTION       Author - Leonard Shlain 

" The fifth major cause of iron depletion in Gyna sapiens is not so obvious as the previous four but nontheless significantly increases her risk of developing an iron-deficiency anemia.  The transfer and loss of iron associated with gestation and brith exist to a lesser degree in other mammalian mothers but still pose a problem.  To counter it, Mother Nature equipped females of the other mammalian species with a vital instinct-an urgent hunger driving them to consume their offspring's placenta.  A plump souffle of meaty iron, amino acids and essential fats, the placenta is the consummate first meal a mother should partake of immediately after the ordeal of delivery. It is the perfect replacement for the very nutrients she lost just minutes earlier, because a freshly expelled placenta contains the iron equivalent of one to two blood transfusions. Gyna sapiens have lost her craving for this delicacy.  Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, dine with gusto on their afterbirth immediately after delivering their infants."   pg. 28-29

• BIRTH - THE SUPRISING HISTORY OF HOW WE ARE BORN                                 Author - Tina Cassidy

"In the 1970's, placentaphagy became part of radical home bith customs, particularly in the San Franscisco area.  One 1980 estimate in Scient Digest said 5 percent of such West Coast deliveries involved sonsuming the afterbirth; the East Cost rate among home-birthers was about 1 or 2 percent.  it is unclear how many of the placentaphagists were vegetarians, but probably many wree.  They considered the placenta to be sacred, and, of course, because the organ gave life and nothing was killed to put it on the table, it was considered an honor to consume it."    pg. 218

• PLACENTA: THE GIFT OF LIFE                                                                     Author - Cornelia Enning 

"Throughout the world generations have passed down knowledge of how ingesting placenta helps a mother's postpartum recovery.  Women using placenta remedies after birth feel stronger, are happier and can breastfeed more easily....Many conditions during birth, the postpartum period and nursing would not arise if we returned to the old custom of applying placenta remedies."