article_snippet.sent: The 41-year-old mother-of-two is part of a rapidly growing cottage industry that prepares fresh placenta for new mothers.
article_snippet.sent: Nor, for that matter, has any other practitioner in the 70-strong Independent Placenta Encapsulation Network (IPEN), of which Kathryn is a member.
article_snippet.sent: Health bosses claimed that dangerous microbes would multiply while the placenta was being processed in her kitchen – with the risk of poisoning the mother.
article_snippet.sent: n’t know how a maternity ward works.
article_snippet.sent: they had the impression that placentas were just falling out of women all over the floor and being put into buckets with other placentas.
article_snippet.sent: Kathryn provides May. Kathryn clients – mostly well-educated, professional women – with a large zip-lock bag into which the placenta is placed.
article_snippet.sent: The bagged organ is then put into a large leak-proof plastic box, which goes into a cool bag packed with ice packs ready for
article_snippet.sent: If the mother has requested a £20 placenta smoothie at the birth,
article_snippet.sent: The bagged organ with lemon, ginger and green chilli, or dries slices of placenta in a dehydrator before grinding the pieces into a powder which May. Kathryn makes into capsules.
article_snippet.sent: Kathryn, a former primary school teacher turned birth ‘doula’ – a non-medical supporter for expectant mothers – became interested in placenta consumption after watching chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall flambee one on TV.
article_snippet.sent: Kathryn, a former primary school teacher added placenta processing to Kathryn, a former primary school teacher birth doula business in March 2013 after a day-long IPEN training course.
article_snippet.sent: A Swindon Council spokesman said: ‘Preparation of foodstuffs using human placenta in this way can present a number of potentially serious health risks to those who consume those who consume them.
highlights_snippet.sent: She whizzes placentas into smoothies, or grinds placentas into pills for mothers .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Includes increase in milk supply, reduction in post-natal bleeding, stabilising blood pressure and more energy to care for increase in milk supply, reduction in post-natal bleeding babies .