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“Every baby’s first breath on Earth could be one of peace and love. Every mother should be healthy and strong. Every birth could be safe and loving. But our world is not there yet,” Robin Lim said during “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute”. Robin Lim is an American woman who began Yayasan Bumi Sehat health […]

A recently published study shows that placental health is highly correlated with stillbirth and other pregnancy complications. Researchers were trying to pinpoint causes and risk factors for stillbirths, and found that in 26% of the cases where the pregnancy did not go to term, problems with the placenta were the causative factor. They were looking […]

Frcblog.com recently wrote a blog “You will always be With Me: Fetal Cells Cross Placenta and Stay with Mom for life” The article is inspired from a National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program in which Science editor Robert Krulwich reports on fetomaternal microchimerism.  A bit about fetomaternal microchimerism (please allow wikipedia to go further into […]

Kristen Oganowski, blogger at Birthing Beautiful Ideas is planning to use placenta capsules for her postpartum recovery. As part of the process, she came across PBi Specialist Kelsie Meyers in Columbus OH. Kristen writes a great blog piece on how she came around to the idea of using placenta capsules. So now–only a short time […]

I’d like to share this guest post from Sarah Harding, one of my fabulous clients. She gave birth to twins this summer, and used placenta capsules again. Congratulations on now having three wonderful daughters, Sarah!   “There are several things you can do with your placenta after you deliver it,” advised our Childbirth Lamaze teacher […]