This is from the Evidence Based Birth Website: What’s the evidence for placenta encapsulation? The placenta is your body’s temporary organ that delivers nutrients and oxygen to the baby during the pregnancy, and it also removes waste for the baby. Up until recently, the only evidence we had on taking your placenta, dehydrating it, and putting it into little capsules — which we call placenta encapsulation — the only research on this came from very, very old studies. There was