Houston Placenta Services

10/24/2026

🌿✨ THE HOLIDAYS ARE COMING UP-NOURISH YOUR FOURTH TRIMESTER WITH PLACENTA ENCAPSULATION ! ✨🌿

Mama, you spend nine months growing your precious baby. Now it’s time to focus on YOU! 💚🤱

Placenta encapsulation is a personal choice some mothers make as part of their postpartum wellness journey. Your placenta is carefully prepared, by me, your trained and certified specialist dehydrated, and placed into convenient capsules for you to take after birth.

🌸 Why do some moms choose placenta encapsulation?

💚 Postpartum Wellness — Incorporate a personalized ritual into your recovery journey.

💚 Convenience — Capsules offer a simple way to consume your processed placenta.

💚 Honoring Your Birth Journey — For some mothers, encapsulation is a meaningful way to honor the placenta that supported their baby’s growth.

💚 Personal Choice — Every mama’s postpartum experience is unique, and your recovery deserves care, compassion, and support.

❤️Cliodhna.

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10/19/2026

STUDY SURPRISES ZERO BIRTH WORKERS 😅

Yet another study has found a clear association between upright positioning during the active second stage of labor and higher rates of physiological birth. So, basically what many of us already know 😉

And I mean...gravity 👀

Researchers found:
✨ Women who had physiological births more frequently used all fours or a birth stool.
✨ Women who had instrumental births were more often in semi recumbent or lithotomy positions.
✨ For every 10% increase in time spent upright during active pushing, the likelihood of physiological birth increased by 26%.
✨ For every 10% increase in time spent supine, the likelihood of instrumental birth increased by 30%.

This adds to previous research that already showed this. And of course, loads of anecdotal experiences.

For doulas, this probably isn't surprising. Supporting movement, position changes, and working with gravity have long been part of labor support.

Of course, position is only one factor. There isn't one magic trick to ensure how a birth unfolds. However, there are lots of things which help facilitate an increased likelihood of a physiological birth.

📖 Tinker et al., 2026, Women and Birth

👇🏽 Surprised? Or does this feel obviously expected?

10/17/2026

Congrats Holistic Heritage Homebirth ❤️

Holistic Heritage Homebirth has found a new home!⁣⁣
It's been such a blessing sharing a space with our friends at Nativiti Family Birth Center (thank you 🤗). Now, we are excited to announce our new location 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟎/𝟐𝟔/𝟐𝟔:⁣⁣
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350 Nursey Rd⁣⁣
Unit 3102, Bldg 3⁣⁣
The Woodlands⁣⁣
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𝘖𝘗𝘌𝘕 𝘏𝘖𝘜𝘚𝘌 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘚𝘖𝘖𝘕!

10/07/2026

❤️This week I send so much love to our Midwives near and far, as we recognize their work, effort, passion and drive to provide exceptional, loving, thoughtful and expert care for the families they guide through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

A huge shoutout to our Houstonian midwives who I personally think are among the best in the country-but I am a wee bit biased ;-).
Esp Heart Of Houston where I visited over the weekend to pick up a precious placenta. Birth center pickups are my fav…the level of calm and serenity upon arrival is always a joy to experience.

To all our midwives, thank you for all you do.

💕Cliodhna.

09/28/2026

👑Gold Painted Cord Keepsakes👑

My fav ❤️❤️❤️

09/19/2026

🥰Lots of geeking out in the placenta kitchen this week…but especially over this gorgeous placenta. This was particularity special because it was returning family which is always an honour. But also because this placenta had 3 really cool elements to it.

1️⃣ It had a circummarginate insertion.
2️⃣Theres was a gorgeous long cord.
3️⃣There was a yolk sac still attached.

So what’s a circummarginate insertion???
This is where the membrane insertion is inside the placental disc and not on the edge. This is particularly cool because it leaves the chorionic plate a tad smaller than the basal plate…meaning the side wee baby interacts with is smaller than what is attached to the uterus. This is simply a variation of normal and a reason for nerds like me to geek out at how cool us birthers actually are!!

A long cord isn’t unusual but it is gorgeous to see.

And those who follow my page know how much I love a yolk sac discovery and how I tend to those beauties! (I super carefully, almost surgically, remove them and attach them to the cord keepsake for the family to keep).

Massive love and credit to Kirrah Placenta Wisdom for such a fabulous illustration of placenta variations. This particular one I studied like a maniac for my own placenta Certification a decade or so ago.

❤️Cliodhna.

09/14/2026

Actor Tatyana Ali says her healing journey after a traumatic childbirth has inspired her advocacy for Black maternal health, including support for midwives, doulas and other birth workers.

08/15/2026

💖It’s been a lovely end to a busy week in the placenta kitchen!

Lots of gorgeous new families from all the way from Montgomery to Conroe to Clear Lake to Pearland and a couple more in between have received their placenta products and are on the road to a healthier and happier postpartum healing.

And a whole new group of expectant parents will be receiving their placenta transportation kits very soon too-I’m beyond thankful for the opportunity to work with so many amazing families throughout the Houston area.

A wee highlight is being booked by a 5th time repeat client. I’m beyond giddy with excitement to see this fabulous family soon, the joy they bring me…pure love!

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08/04/2026

💖Another gorgeous jar of postpartum support has made its way to its rightful home!

After a very restful summer off, the placenta kitchen is open and firing on all cylinders!

Book your professional placenta services today and enjoy a healing postpartum, like you so very much deserve. 💖

www.HoustonPlacentaServices.com

07/21/2026

☘️🇮🇪6 Weeks in Ireland!☘️🇮🇪

Bringing my kids home summer after summer has been the biggest gift ever! They are as Irish as they are American, they have friends here and absolutely adore their Irish aunties and uncles.

I’m so lucky to have family and friends on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, something that the previous generation to me rarely got to enjoy, back then, when you left home for American shores, you left for good. Thankfully that’s not the case for me. I go home every year to the same friends in my village I’ve had since I was 8 years old and to the loveliest family a girl could ask for.

These pics are just a wee snippet of the summer-the food we devoured could take up a whole new post. 😂