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The PBi network of specialists would like to congratulate Joanne Fortuna on becoming a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® Mentor.  Joanne is serving the Chicagoland community, ensuring the women there have access to quality birth services. She believes in a holistic approach to healing and is quite passionate about placenta encapsulation. “I am a strong believer […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]