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A drug commonly given to women to speed up the delivery of the placenta is now being blamed for poor breastfeeding rates in the UK.    The drug known as ergotmetrine has been determined to disrupt the body’s response to the birth hormone oxytocin and prolactin, a hormone responsible for milk production in mothers. While […]

The PBi Network of Specialists would like to extend a warm welcome to Tiffany Johnson of Woonsocket, RI. Tiffany lives in Rhode Island with her husband and 4 children. When Tiffany became a mother, she began supporting women by working as a postpartum doula.  After experiencing the benefits of placenta encapsulation in 2012, Tiffany found […]

An analysis of 68 million births over 23 years has found a link between maternal weight gain and boy fetuses.   “Over all, 51 percent of babies born are boys. But Kristen J. Navara, an endocrinologist in the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia, found that the amount of pregnancy weight gained and […]

The PBi Network of Specialists would like to extend a warm welcome to Priscilla Dobbs, serving Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida. Priscilla became interested in pregnancy and birth at a young age and has been serving women as a birth doula since 2012. If you live in South Florida and are interested in placenta encapsulation […]

It has long been thought that the mothers’ womb is a sterile environment. However, new findings are showing that a baby is first exposed to microbes in utero. The bacteria of a placenta is similar to that of the mother’s mouth, which is thought to be passed to the baby from foods consumed by the […]