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 […]
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Placenta, Rainbows and Unicorns
Kristen over at Birthing Beautiful Ideas has published her full story of using placenta capsules for her postpartum recovery. We first blogged about Kristen when she was pregnant, and planning to use the services of PBi’s own Kelsie Meyers to prepare the placenta. Kristen writes many wonderful things about her experience with placenta capsules, […]
Mammograms: Not All They’re Cracked Up To Be
Breast cancer, the leading gynecological cancer, has been on the rise for the past fifty years. Today, one in seven women will be diagnosed with breast cancer; a stark difference between the one in twenty statistic of 1960. For years women have been told to get regular mammograms to screen for the disease in […]
The Placenta Benefits Network Just Keeps Growing and Growing!
The PBi family would like to give a huge welcome to the following new Placenta Encapsulation Specialist®s (PES): Mandi Woolery – Upland, CA Heather Holm – Nashville, TN Congratulations to our newly Certified Specialists (CPES): Michaela Evanow, CPES (PBi) – Vancouver, BC Kylie Pattnaik, CPES (PBi) – Cornwall, ENG Good work ladies and thank […]
Mother Transmits Cancer to Baby Through Placenta
A woman in Phoenix, AZ, died earlier this month as a result of stage-four melanoma. Briana Cox discovered she had the disease when she collapsed just two months after the birth of her daughter, Addison. By the time the cancer was caught, it had spread to her brain, liver, and other parts of her body. […]
Probiotics: An alternative treatment for mastitis?
Through the years, mastitis, an infection of breast tissue that mostly occurs in breastfeeding mothers, has typically been treated by a course of antibiotics. However, more recently, probiotics have been shown to be a better alternative. Doctors from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, studied a group of 352 with symptoms of mastitis. One group of […]
