I am on the road again this morning, heading to Dallas/Fort Worth for the Controversies in Childbirth conference. I know the conference is going to be interesting, and PBi has a booth at the accompanying Baby Expo. I am very curious to see what sort of reception the placenta will receive out there. I’m […]
Midwifery Today conference
I had a fantastic time at the Midwifery Today conference in Eugene, OR. It was held March 13-15, and I went up with a couple of midwife friends from Las Vegas for the pre-conference. It was wonderful to be back in Oregon after a long stint in the desert. We moved from Portland to Las […]
‘The Doctors’ blows it big-time
Unfortunately, my first post after the Midwifery Today conference ends up being about the negative perception of placenta in the media, instead of how uplifting it was to be at the conference. The Doctors originally contacted me back in August of 2008 with questions about eating the placenta. I had several detailed conversations with […]
Update from the Midwifery Today conference
Birth by the clock – 3rd stage of labor
Jan Tritten of Midwifery Today wrote a recent blog post on the myth of the trapped placenta. Apparently the 3rd stage of labor, birthing the placenta, is also managed by the clock. Just as a woman “must” deliver within 24 hours of her waters breaking, the placenta “must” be born within 30-60 minutes after […]
FDA approval for placenta stem cell research
A bio-therapeutics company based in Israel was just granted FDA approval for a clinical trial to examine the effects of their new product, which integrates placenta stem cells, on peripheral artery disease. They’ve developed a way to extract the stem cells from the placenta with their proprietary 3D PluriX™ technology. They’ve also come up […]
