You are in the final moments; you’ve worked so hard, come so far.Your body urges you to push. You bear down, giving it your all; and, alas, you have delivered your precious baby.You soar with excitement and, in an instant, a profound relationship is born. What happens next is the third stage of labor, the […]
Congratulation to Katherine Scalf, CPES
Katherine Scalf, serving Louisville, KY, has recently completed her work to become a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® through PBi. Katherine is the mother of two children and became interested in natural childbirth after the birth of her son in 2009. This interest ultimately led to her becoming a trained childbirth educator and doula through CAPPA. […]
Placenta has a theme song?
Thanks to Taming Flamingoes, it does! I met the author way back at the Gentle Birth World Expo in 2007, my first booth for Placenta Benefits ever. That was quite an experience – doulas and midwives were enthusiastic; pregnant mamas would take one look and move to the opposite side of the aisle, turning […]
Congratulations to Sarah Skinner, CPES
We would like to congratulate Sarah Skinner, PBi’s newest Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® (CPES). To become certified, a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® (PES) must complete the PBi training, including reading research and writing response papers. The PES must complete three placentas using PBi’s method of placenta encapsulation and take a food safety and preparation course to […]
Placenta, Rainbows and Unicorns
Kristen over at Birthing Beautiful Ideas has published her full story of using placenta capsules for her postpartum recovery. We first blogged about Kristen when she was pregnant, and planning to use the services of PBi’s own Kelsie Meyers to prepare the placenta. Kristen writes many wonderful things about her experience with placenta capsules, […]
Mammograms: Not All They’re Cracked Up To Be
Breast cancer, the leading gynecological cancer, has been on the rise for the past fifty years. Today, one in seven women will be diagnosed with breast cancer; a stark difference between the one in twenty statistic of 1960. For years women have been told to get regular mammograms to screen for the disease in […]
