In the past, consuming your placenta after having your baby may have seemed like a practice exclusively for the patchouli-wearing, water-birth-favoring set, but thanks to big health benefits and ...

What is placenta accreta? It's a rare condition that affects around 0.2% of pregnancies. Normally, your placenta forms an attachment to the uterine lining, called the endometrium. But if you have ...

The placenta is a temporary organ that grows during pregnancy to filter oxygen, blood, and nutrients to your baby. After you give birth, you will also deliver your placenta shortly after. Sometimes ...

I am not the first person who has considered composing poetry to the placenta. One writer begins: “Oh Lady Placenta! What a life you lived in magenta.” Another almost coos to the “constant companion, ...

Your doctor may mention that your placenta has moved or changed its position after the scan. But what does it mean? Is it even possible? These questions may arise in your mind and make you worry about ...

Circumvallate placenta is an abnormality in the shape of the placenta. It can result in a lack of nutrients for the fetus. In circumvallate placenta, the chorionic plate, which is the part of the ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In almost all mammals, the placenta—the organ that develops in pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the ...

More and more women want to take their own placenta with them after childbirth in order to eat it for "health reasons". This phenomenon is growing, especially in the USA, but also in Europe, although ...

Over the last decade, as more expecting mothers have re-embraced births with limited medical intervention, eating the placenta has also become a growing trend among new parents. But a recent study ...

Simone and Michael Manzella can’t get enough of their baby girl, Dakota. “Everyone’s doing really good so we can’t complain about that at all,” Michael Manzella said. But it’s what happened on the day ...