Facebook is deleting pictures of placentas. They are generally being flagged as “violent imagery”. I am at a loss to understand how a placenta, a product of birth, a bringer of life, can in any way be construed as “violent”.
Birth itself can be violent. Women have been strapped down (whether with actual restraints or [...]

We have some amazing placenta lovers out there! A fellow PBi Specialist, Polly Wood, pointed me to an artist who has created amazing imagery that honors the placenta.
Nané Ariadne Jordan creates placentas from felted wool, yielding a buttery soft, hand-spun and dyed piece of art. Nané created her masterpieces as part of the Gestare Art Collective, a [...]

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 after [...]

One of the common arguments against placentophagia, or consumption of the placenta, is that it is an act of cannibalism. I disagree for the following reasons:

Cannibalism is the eating of human flesh. Flesh is defined as being muscle and fat; placenta is neither.

Cannibalism, by definition, is consumption of the flesh of someone or something that [...]

New research has given a better understanding of the placenta’s important role in pregnancy and brain development as Zoe Corbyn writes in Nature. The placenta was once thought of mostly as a passive organ to filter nutrients to the baby. Now the placenta is being recognized as being an active, [...]

On June 4, 2011 WWW.TOPNEWS.US  published an article by Jason Ramsey, “Food and Nutrition Care-For-Mothers-To-Be” about a recent study that reviews the importance of food and nutrition during pregnancy, with emphasis going to the placenta.  In this particular study, a high-fat and oily diet was found to decrease blood flow of [...]

Since my interest in placentophagy was awakened I have heard/read various stories of how the placenta is a recognized remedy in other countries. The idea of both men and women in other countries ingesting placenta as a common remedy has intrigued me. So, when I came across the article titled [...]

The Feminist Breeder is a popular writer and “mommy blogger” who just had her third baby. This time around, she decided to join the growing ranks of mothers who are using placenta capsules for their postpartum recovery. Why?
Well, these are my good reasons:

I’m choosing a med-free water birth in my living room because the safety record of [...]

This is a wonderful video demonstrating maternal placentophagy among apes. Apparently, this is the very first video footage of a Javan gibbon birth — complete with maternal placentophagy! You can clearly see the gibbon mom licking placental fluids and eating the placenta.

Check out our YouTube channel for more great videos on placenta and placentophagy.

I’ve thought quite often over the years about the connection of the placenta to tree lore and mythology. So many cultures across the Earth have a ritual connecting the placenta to trees. I’ve written a chapter on this in my upcoming book, The Postpartum Survival Guide, and wanted to share a little excerpt here.
Why is [...]