As a busy working mum, former Holby City star Rebecca Grant knows the importance of taking good care of herself.
The 33-year-old star of stage and screen has appeared in hit shows like Doctors, Emmerdale and Queens of Mystery.
Although she's possibly best known for her role as nurse Daisha Anderson.
Her character was dramatically written out of the hit BBC show in 2010 when she wanted to pursue other career prospects.
Nurse Daisha survived being held hostage, which led to her colleagues saving her life, before she decided to return to The Philippines to look after her son.
And after a successful stage career, Rebecca has now added producer to her belt as she prepares to produce and take on the role of Frida Kahlo on the London stage.
So when Rebecca fell pregnant with her second child, baby girl Rose, she wanted to do everything she could to ensure she was in tip top shape.
She turned to Nikki Welling, founder of Cherished Placentas, which transforms placentas into capsules, to be then taken by new mums.
And two months after giving birth, Rebecca says she feels better than ever.
She added: "My midwife took out the placenta, I'd already explained the whole thing, and they talked me through it all as they were doing it. It was amazing.
"Then Nikki came to pick it up. She enscapulated it using a Chinese medical method , then two days later a beautiful package arrived.
"It was really beautifully presented and you just didn't think about the fact you were eating your own placenta.
"I had no baby blues this time round. I'm producing a play for the London theatre called Frida's Return about Frida Khalo and I was so busy fundraising and going to meetings, it was madness - but I was able to handle it.
"My milk supply was also really good.
"I had been suffering from bad asthma and cold sores but a couple of weeks went by and I felt more energised, my skin was much better and I was healed after the birth within a week.
"My cold sores disappeared and my asthma improved.
"Two weeks after I gave birth I had to produce a trailer for our play. I had to dance and act and get into my costume in a hangar in Norfolk."
Rebecca admits her second pregnancy with baby Rose was much harder than with her first child, Flint.
She said: "The second time around the pregnancy was much harder. The last two months I was so tired and heavy."
Rebecca had friends round on the day Rose make her big entrance and had spent the day cooking up a feast before going into labour in the middle of the night.
She said: "I can't help but feed people so I cooked a huge chilli and was on my feet all day. It was a really busy day but it was such a lovely catch up.
"At about midnight I started having contractions and when they were regular I decided to wake my husband to tell him I'd gone into labour.
"He went back to sleep for a few hours and I called my doola, Rachel Graveling, who was amazing."
The mum of two has nothing but praise for the staff at North Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Rebecca said: "They were absolute angels at the North Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. They were literally holding my hands and congratulating me for being in labour, they were so welcoming.
"Within five minutes Rose was out. She was an 8lb 12oz baby and my husband was so happy and filled with joy."
And Rebecca credits her placenta capsules with her rapid recovery after giving birth.
She said: "If it wasn't for my placenta and all that healing and goodness and building blocks to health, I don't think I would have had an much energy and felt as energised as I do.
"I've even got back to the gym."
Nikki made up the placenta capsule, which are taken daily for between six to eight weeks.
She was inspired to set up her business in March last year because of the benefits she felt from enscapulating her own placenta.
Nikki said: "I wanted to offer this incredible service to other mummies in the hope that they too would feel these amazing benefits throughout their postnatal recovery stage and beyond
"I have had two babies and could compare the difference significantly with my recovery.
"I never got the baby blues, which most mummies experience after having their baby due to their hormones lost after birth.
"My milk came in within an hour of drinking my first smoothie and carried on in abundance even throughout the growth spurts."
The businesswoman says she was full of energy following the birth of her second child, despite already being mum to a 14 month old and was up and about just two days after her caesarean.
But Nikki says the main benefit, for her, was not getting post natal depression, which she had suffered from after her first pregnancy.
She puts this down to replacing ther hormpnes she lost while giving birth with her placenta capsules.
Nikki said: "All of my clients have all mentioned that they never went through the baby blues, which’s shows their hormones are being regulated thats at a much quicker rate than our bodies can produce which normally they can take six to eight weeks."
As well as capsules, Nikki also produces oil, which can be used to help with stretch marks , and a balm.
For more information about Cherished Placentas, click here .