Some options may carry health risks, so it's important to be informed. Discuss any plans for your placenta with your healthcare provider in advance. Curious about things you can do with your placenta ...

Parents Taylor and Kaleb Mckey were expecting their second pregnancy to be relatively uneventful, much like their first. Will was transverse lie, sideways in the uterus, and Taylor ended up needing to ...

Kourtney Kardashian touted the benefits of ingesting her “juicy placenta” after welcoming her newborn son, Rocky. The “Kardashians” star posted a photo of her “Mommy made encapsulation” supplements to ...

Vick Hope has announced that she will eat her own capsulated placenta following the birth of her son Micha. Eating the placenta after birth is not an entirely foreign concept, with many claiming it ...

In this Sept. 13, 2013, photo, A small piece of placenta sits in a jar as Laura Curtis of Placentawise in Lindon, Utah, prepares a placenta for a client that will be turned into capsules as a ...

In an opinion article publishing September 18 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Molecular Medicine, physician-scientists argue that with most placentas discarded after birth, placental pathology is ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The air in Laura Curtis’ kitchen is thick with the iron-rich smell of placenta. The organ, an unusually large specimen, has been steaming atop a pot of boiling water, ginger and ...

Parents Taylor and Kaleb Mckey were expecting their second pregnancy to be relatively uneventful, much like their first. Will was transverse lie, sideways in the uterus, and Taylor ended up needing to ...