Curious about things you can do with your placenta after birth? Placentas are routinely disposed of by U.S. hospitals—and that's a totally reasonable option! However, nowadays some parents are keeping ...

Your labor is over! Your sweet baby is finally in your arms and the tough job of childbirth is nearly complete. All that remains is tying up the loose ends, so to speak, and this means the delivery of ...

Among women in England, cesarean section in the first delivery increased the risk of placenta previa in the subsequent delivery by 60%. There was no evidence that the effect of CS on placenta previa ...

In an opinion article published September 18 in Trends in Molecular Medicine, physician-scientists argue that with most placentas discarded after birth, placental pathology is underutilized clinically ...

When I was eight months pregnant, I decided to spend quality time writing down a comprehensive birth plan. While so many of my friends who were already moms told me that there are many unknowns when ...

In many cultures, the placenta is more than tissue left over after birth. It may be understood as spiritually linked to the baby, treated as a companion or sibling, and buried to protect the child or ...

When I was a new mom, the promise of more energy, fewer mood swings, a steady milk supply, and a quicker recovery after labor sounded too good to be true. But advocates of placentophagy, or ingesting ...

Throw it back a decade or two and if a well-known, mainstream celeb said they were off to eat their placenta after giving birth, they’d probably be met with an arched eyebrow or two. Yes, the placenta ...