Your baby has been born, but there’s one final step — delivering the placenta. Here’s what to expect from this last stage of ...

Eating your own placenta is marketed to come with benefits such as increased milk production. However, there is no scientific evidence that supports these claims. I chose not to encapsulate my ...

A study found no scientific evidence to back up claims that eating the placenta either raw, cooked or encapsulated offers protection against post-natal depression or post-delivery pain and lactation ...

A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports reported that circulating microparticle (CMP) proteins predict pregnancies complicated by placenta accreta spectrum (PAS). The primary ...

There is a plethora of opinions and research about how to birth, where to birth, and the steps to take after. What we can take from all that research is that there is no one way to give birth. However ...

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 ...

Sharna Burgess says she’s ingesting her own placenta in pill form to help aid in her postpartum recovery after welcoming son Zane in June. The Dancing With the Stars performer explained in an ...

Evidence about the risk of placenta previa following a previous CS in UK women is limited to results published 25 years ago. [14] We used the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), an administrative ...

Placenta accreta is a life-threatening condition in which the placenta attaches to scar tissue left by a C-section. It used ...