January Jones pops placenta pills (From Wandsworth Guardian)

January Jones pops placenta pills

11:25am Monday 26th March 2012 in Entertainment News © Press Association 2013

January Jones has revealed she ate her own placenta to help her on her return to work on Mad Men just weeks after giving birth.

The 34-year-old actress - who plays Don Draper's fussy and bossy ex-wife Betty - gave birth to her first child, son Xander, in September and was back on the set of the hit TV show just six weeks later. But she told People.com a special diet had helped her.

January said: "I have a great doula who makes sure I'm eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation.

"Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas.

"It's not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!"

The X-Men: First Class star admitted going back to work hadn't been easy, but she was learning to cope.

January said: "I think I went back to set six or seven weeks after, so he was really little.

"I had the baby and the baby nurse in their own room so I could go back and feed him every two hours," the first-time mum recalls.

"If I felt like he needed me, or if he needed to eat, or even if I just needed a squeeze because I was having separation issues, I would go back and see him. It was such a blessing that I wasn't separated from him."

"It was hard to work long days and then go home and not sleep. It's getting harder, not easier, so I'm a little concerned!" she added.