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 [...]

I’d like to share this guest post from Sarah Harding, one of my fabulous clients. She gave birth to twins this summer, and used placenta capsules again. Congratulations on now having three wonderful daughters, Sarah!

“There are several things you can do with your placenta after you deliver it,” advised our Childbirth Lamaze teacher at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The miracle of life, the process of embryo to fetus to baby is deeply mysterious and engaging to ponder for any of us birth, placenta, and baby lovers. The-scientist.com recently published an article by Amy Maxmen, “Embryos Right Genetic Wrongs?” and our lovely placenta was mentioned.  A recent study with [...]

by Angela Bailey, CPES (PBi)
We happily welcomed a guinea pig to our home in July after my son was intrigued by the movie G-Force. I noticed her belly growing bigger and bigger as a few weeks passed. Soon enough, to our surprise, her belly began moving, and we knew she would soon be a [...]

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, over 80% of [...]

Cynthia Mitchell, in her article The Afterlife of Afterbirth: Notes on eating human placenta, has a clever and humorous take on eating placenta. Apparently placenta was the hopeful entree for an Adventures in Dining group. Even though their plans were thwarted by formaldehyde, her curiosity is sparked and she decides to learn more about placentophagy.
Including [...]