By the time her baby arrived, 'everything was beyond overwhelming,' Brumfield says. Everything was going according to plan until 20 weeks into Brumfield's pregnancy, when she lost her job at a financial technology startup and, with it, her salary and three months' paid maternity leave.Īfter building a new business to support her family, she had clients, but child care was limited and her husband's schedule was always shifting. She had just bought a house with her husband, a wildland firefighter who had enrolled in paramedic school to transition to firefighting closer to home. Like many first-time expectant mothers, she was nervous and excited about her pregnancy. When Brooke Brumfield wasn't battling morning sickness, she craved nachos. Generally, the goal is to increase her milk production, energy and mood, but scientists dispute such benefits.
Placenta purveyors often dehydrate and grind a new mother's placenta to a powder, then add it to a pill capsule.
