Congratulations to Tara Carpenter, proudly serving central Vermont and the upper valley, on becoming a PBi Mentor. Tara has always been pulled to postpartum women, even as a child. She would often help neighbors during the special time following the birth of their babies, and even participated in the home birth of her siblings. She […]
Read MoreThe Las Vegas Sun has published a series of articles highlighting our newest placentophagy research out of UNLV. In this first article, my client Lisa Stark describes her recent experience using placenta capsules for her postpartum recovery. Lisa gave birth to her second baby in January. She wanted to try placenta capsules to help […]
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Evidence suggests that babies at 28 weeks gestation can distinguish certain syllables such as “ga” and “ba” and identify male and female voices. “Experts already know that babies are able to hear noises in the womb – the ear and the auditory part of the brain that allow this are formed by around 23 […]
Read MoreThe art of midwifery has a deep, rich history dating back to The Old Testament, but what if it went back even further than that? Could midwifery be a practice that dates back to the origin of (wo)man? A new article addresses the idea that midwifery may not be an exclusively human role. Chinese […]
Read MoreAre you having trouble with milk supply? Could stress be to blame? Studies suggest relaxed mothers makes more milk than their stressed out, anxious counterparts. A 1989 study by Stephen Feher, published in the Cochrane Review, followed over 70 mothers with infants in the NICU. All the mothers in the study pumped breast milk […]
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