Love Island star emotional as her daughter's placenta is sent to her

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Love Island star Shaughna Phillips was excited by the arrival of her daughter's placenta after welcoming her first child. The birthday girl, who turned 29 yesterday (Tuesday April 11), told her Instagram follower she was feeling emotional to have received the delivery after giving birth to Lucia on April 4. "Look what's arrived," she declared on her Instagram Stories about her delivery from placenta encapsulation company Placenta Plus. "Actually feel quite emotional having this delivered!" Explaining why it meant so much to her, she said: "Knowing my placenta kept my little darling healthy and safe for nine months," and she added: "Wow the hormones are real lol." Shaughna then told her followers: "Going to sterilise some bottes and then show you what @placentaplus have made me." READ MORE: I'm a Celebrity South Africa start date announced and it's just days away Placenta encapsulation is the process of turning the placenta, an organ that develops in the uterus during pregnancy providing oxygen and nutrients to a growing baby, into a palatable vitamin taken as pills and gummies and also used in skincare.

It is believed to reduce the likelihood of post-natal depression by giving back natural hormones and has already been used by other celebrity mums including Coleen Rooney, The Saturdays singer and TV presenter Rochelle Humes, TOWIE favourite Amy Childs and forner Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent.

Announcing the arrival of her tiny bundle of joy Shaughna, who was among the singles hoping to find love on the popular reality series during its first winter series set in Cape Town in 2020, shared a gorgeous photo of mother and daughter in hospital. "My darling Lucia, I wish I had you sooner so I could love you longer,"