A big congratulations to Tricia Hayes, PBi’s newest Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® in Thousand Oaks, CA! Tricia lives with her husband and two amazing sons, aged 12 years and 18 months. Yes, she’ll this brave woman will be entering the teens and the twos at the same time! She saw her first placenta when she […]
Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®s
Houston, TX welcomes a new Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®
Placenta Benefits is pleased to introduce Katie Bredbeck, our newest Placenta Encapsulation Specialist® in Houston, TX. Katie is the owner of Matrescence Postpartum Services. Matrescence is the process of becoming a mother, just as adolescence means the process of becoming an adult. Medical Anthropologist Dana Raphael, PhD, coined the term in response to her […]
Placenta Encapsulation comes to Ithaca, NY
PBi is pleased to announce yet another new PBi-Trained Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®! We would like to welcome Polly Wood, M.F.A., PES (PBi) to the PBi Family. Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®s are some of the most well rounded and diverse groups of women out there. We come from all walks of life and Polly is no exception! […]
Richmond, VA now has a PBi-Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®
Things have been busy here at PBi Headquarters lately! With getting new specialists started with their education and helping others become certified, the Midwifery Educators Conference in June, the California Midwives Association Conference in July, and the As They Grow Kids’ Consignment Event in September, the summer has just flown by! It is high […]
Another mama discovers Happy Pills
Sarah Baker drew my attention to her recent article, describing her journey toward discovering the benefits of placenta for postpartum recovery. Sarah writes: After struggling through the depths of post-partum depression following the birth of my son 7 years ago, I was curious when I heard that there might actually be a way to prevent […]
Placenta: Happy Pills for Postpartum Recovery
This article originally published in Fun & Fit Life Magazine, March 2010 By Jodi Selander The placenta is generally referred to as “after birth”, as though it were merely a remnant of the pregnancy. In this view, it completes its role of supporting the newborn baby and is rendered useless upon its birth. Simultaneously, […]
