About Tara Carpenter: Placenta Encapsulation in Vermont

I was raised in a home full of animals, children, and birth.

My mother ran a daycare in our home and later directed Harborside Montessori School. I loved babies most. We kept rabbits, parakeets, dogs, cats, turtles, and guinea pigs I raised and sold to neighborhood kids. At age 4, I became a mother’s helper by walking my neighborhood to look for pink and blue balloons announcing the birth of a baby. I’d knock on door and give them a mother’s helper card. I charged a quarter an hour!

I remember a neighbor up the road walked into our home beside herself because her baby would not stop crying. I took the baby, rocking him in my arms until his body became a leaden weight asleep to my song. Seemed, I always had a baby in my arms up through high school and ran a Saturday morning playgroup for mothers to do the weekly shop without the kids. In college, I continued to care for children as a source of income 🙂

Even as a child, I knew my life work would involve helping mothers and babies. I would sit up in the attic for hours devouring Mothering magazines and childbirth books. Our home was the hub for home-birthing and breastfeeding circles and I fondly remember all the pregnant moms on our living room floor listening to talks from local midwives; big pregnant bellies and babies in arms. When I was 6, my little sister was born at home then a few years later my brother too (he was 3 weeks overdue and near 10 pounds!) …. my job was to catch the baby and cut the umbilical cord.

In 2010, after having my own children, I trained to be a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist to offer Vermont mothers a traditional Chinese method to ease postpartum irregularities. Benefits that placenta capsules can bring include helping the new mother be hormonally balanced, heal tears/stitches, tonify uterus, replenish iron, boost breastmilk, etc. When I first started encapsulating in 2011, I was impressed by the unique way each woman responded to her capsules.

Placenta is a hormonal-rich, traditional food revered in many parts of the world as nutritionally superior. Every mammal, except whales and kangaroos, ingest placenta after birth and in China, mothers are routinely sent home from hospital with placenta in hand. Placenta can replenish a woman‘s hormonal and nutritional needs after the laborious work of growing baby, giving birth, and then caring for baby around the clock.

Email tara@happybellies.net to book or make an inquiry.

Disclaimer: Benefits of placenta encapsulation are supported by ongoing research. However, statements on this website aren't evaluated by FDA and products from my service aren't intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent disease. Make your decision in regards to consuming your placenta with a licensed medical practitioner. Tara Carpenter is a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist not a doctor, holistic practitioner, pharmaceutical representative, or herbalist. Women who utilize this service take full responsibility for using her own placenta capsules at her own risk.