Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death.

Disorganized collagen in old C-section scars causes abnormal placental attachment in uterus in future pregnancies, not ...

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When Khloe Kardashian was pregnant with daughter, True, she revealed on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" she’d follow the lead of sister Kim and eat her placenta. While this sounds stomach-churning ...

Some women eat the placenta, but few have tried turning it into a keepsake. Nov. 10, 2009— -- After the baby is born and the cooing in the delivery room begins, parents may do a variety of things ...

Placenta previa is a condition whereby your placenta sits low in your uterus and covers the entrance to your cervix partially ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in a hospital conference room, and this not your average birthday planning committee. Here’s the invitation list for the multidisciplinary meeting to plan this ...

Fruit of the Womb turns a woman's placenta into pill form. August 5, 2011— -- Mother-of-three Tamara Guida believes that women should eat their own placenta because the nutrient-packed organ that ...

Some new parents are opting for lotus births, where the placenta and umbilical cord are left until they fall off naturally — but is it safe? Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, ...

Interviewer: Eating the placenta, should you or should you not? That's what we will be discussing next on The Scope Announcer: Medical news and research from University of Utah physicians, and ...

While placenta eating is controversial among doctors, stars have encapsulated, blended and cooked their placentas for the rumored benefits. (Photos may not be for the squeamish!) "Round 2," Moore ...

In almost all mammals, the placenta — the organ that develops in pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the baby and remove waste products — is eaten by the mother immediately after giving birth ...