We warmly welcome Camilla Yrure to Placenta Benefits as one of our Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialists. Camilla studied Environmental Science in the United Kingdom before she entered birth work and service. In 2008 she gave birth to her first child at home inspiring her to work with pregnancy and postpartum women and families. She is [...]

I see the word “certified” thrown around pretty loosely. What does being a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist mean?
Is everyone who takes the PBi Training Course automatically “certified”?
No! Certification is a process. We want to ensure that only the most experienced, dedicated and knowledgeable people are granted certification status.
How does someone become [...]

We are happy to announce Angelica McCabe-Nagy as one of our Placenta Encapsulation Specialist in Blue Jay, CA. Angelica is a health and wellness counselor, home health aide, and certified nurse aide. Angelica found out about placenta encapsulation in her personal search for ways to stay healthy while breastfeeding.
“As I learned more about placenta [...]

PBi warmly welcomes Tara Carpenter as one of our latest Placenta Encapsulation Specialists. Tara has had an innate affinity to the postpartum period,family, and newborns for pretty much most of her life. Her connection to the natural birthing world began in childhood by assisting in her sibling’s births and continued [...]

Lisa Kestler has a Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy with a focus in adult and neonatal intensive care and labor and delivery. She began to study and believe in a more natural approach to medicine and the body’s ability to heal itself while working in the hospital setting. Lisa’s motherhood [...]

Once again research is finding just how dynamic the placenta truly is. New research has found pituitary hormones from the placenta have ancestral origins in therian (live bearing) mammals.  “Placental expression of these pituitary hormones has clearly been conserved in marsupials as in eutherian (placental) mammals, suggesting an ancestral origin [...]

Mari Stewart is PBi’s very own Placenta Encapsulation Specialist in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mari has the love of birth in her blood, as her maternal grandfather had a private obstetrical practice in Hawaii  delivering over 15,000 babies before he passed. She has always known that she would follow her grandfather’s footsteps [...]

Check out Polly Wood, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist with PBi, in an article by Aaron Munzer in the IthacaJournal.com. Polly serves women in Ithaca, NY,  and surrounding counties and the Finger Lakes region.  The article spotlights on Polly Wood and describes the wonderful services of Placenta Encapsulation (I know, I am a [...]

PBi is happy to announce that Jereka Hunt is PBi’s Newest Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist and Mentor!
Certification takes commitment and hard work. To become certified, a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist must have completed scientific research and written response papers, acquired experience in placenta encapsulation services by preparing three placentas using PBi’s Method of Placenta Encapsulation, [...]

Michaela Evanow is a self described “DONA certified doula, placenta encapsulation specialist, wife, foodie and female nomad!”. Michaela’s studies in birth began with her travels to India and Egypt as a volunteer birth attendant. Her calling to be in the birth world has deepened since, with commitment to education and advocacy. [...]