Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

A woman who did not realise she was pregnant has described giving birth alone at the beauty parlour where she worked before ...

The belly button, or navel, is a scar that forms after the umbilical cord is detached shortly after birth. The umbilical cord ...

Sometimes a placenta previa may cause an abnormal presentation ... which is most likely if the baby can't be moved into the proper position. Umbilical cord prolapse happens more often when ...

Cord blood banking is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, especially among expectant parents. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta ...

Kathelen Tavares insists scans showed she was pregnant with twins but when she gave birth at the Mariska Ribeiro Municipal ...

A Newport mum who decided to save her newborn son's umbilical cord stem cells has said there is "absolutely nothing to lose" by having that "back-up". Natalie Harrop was inspired to research blood ...

Cord blood transplants can help save the lives of patients with leukemia as well as other blood cancers and genetic diseases. Found in the placenta and the umbilical cords of newborns, cord blood stem ...

which can lead to interruptions in gas exchange across the placental barrier. Occlusion of one or more of the vessels in the umbilical cord can impede circulation to and from the fetus.

after discovering there were more than a million blood-producing stem cells in the blood within the umbilical cord and placenta, external. Pregnant with her fourth child, Arthur, Ms Harrop ...

and allows the transfer of the metabolic waste from placental and fetal tissue through the umbilical cord to the maternal kidney for elimination. There are strong inherent difficulties associated ...