Have you heard about the new Placenta Encapsulation Training courses that PBiU launched earlier this year? Here is what a couple of our recent students have said when we asked for anonymous feedback: “I have been doing placentas for a bit and learned from someone else which has been good, but now I feel way […]
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5 Amazing Placenta Photos
Do you love photos of placentas? I certainly do! Monet Moutrie, a birth photographer in Colorado, published a series of 12 placenta photos on the Huffington Post blog. These are The Placenta Blog’s Favorite Five: Gorgeous!
Nobel Prize for Traditional Chinese Medicine
The prestigious 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Tu Youyou of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine for her discovery of “a novel therapy against malaria.” This award is particularly special – Tu is the 12th woman to receive it, the first Chinese scientist, and only the third Chinese citizen to win […]
Breastfeeding is Best for Babies. Period.
You have probably seen the latest mother-shaming campaign sponsored by, big surprise, Nestle. In case you don’t know, Nestle makes synthetic infant formula, and has gotten into trouble from the World Health Organization for its aggressive marketing tactics against breastfeeding. The latest ad campaign put out by the Brazilian Paediatric Society of Rio Grande […]
Mother in Australia displays children's placenta photos in art exhibit.
At Happy Yess in Darwin, Austalia an art exhibit called Your Body, My Body is honoring the placenta. Mother, Megan Robertson, and a friend took photographs of her boys’ placentas for the exhibit in the conceptual style of Marcel Duchamp. “It just made a lot of sense when the boys were born to give [the placenta] some […]
World Breastfeeding Week – Big Latch On Results!
On Friday July 31st and Saturday August 1st at 10:30am both days women around the world joined in the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week by participating in the Big Latch On 2015. In 2013 a global Big Latch On world record was set at 14, 536 children latched. This year a new record was set! […]