Becoming a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist

Tara Carpenter, CPES.

Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist for mothers 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 when I also ran a Saturday morning playgroup for mothers to do the weekly shop without the kids. In college, I continued to babysit as a source of income and still keep in touch with many of my families 🙂

I knew my life work would involve helping mothers and babies.

I devoured every Mothering magazine and childbirth book my mother kept and loved to sit in on the home-birthing circles held in our living room with the local midwives. When I was 6, I watched my little sister be born at home then a few years later my brother too who was 3 weeks overdue” and near 10 pounds! My job was to catch the baby and cut cord.

In 2010, after having children of my own, I trained to be a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist (CPES.) to offer mothers in Vermont a traditional Chinese method for preparing placenta capsules. Some benefits of the placenta capsules I make include helping the new mother to be hormonally balanced, heal tears/stitches, tonify the uterus, replenish her iron, boost breastmilk, etc. I was so impressed by how the women responded to the capsules that what started as a part-time hobby became a full-time job where I have now serviced 400 new mothers throughout Vermont. I believe in what I do and honored to do this good work.

Choose from grape or unflavored capsules; as easy to take as a prenatal vitamin.

Placenta is a hormonally rich food traditionally revered tin 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. This is where I come in and am delighted to now be encapsulating for 2nd, 3rd, even 4th (!) children of these same mothers.

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Please email tara@happybellies.net for all inquiries.

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, CPES. is a Certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, not a doctor, holistic practitioner, pharmaceutical representative, or herbalist. Women who utilize this service take responsibility for using placenta capsules at own risk.