Cord blood is the blood in your baby's umbilical cord and your placenta. It houses potentially lifesaving cells called stem ...

Iyanna Brown, 27, was due to give birth on July 7 but on the morning of June 26, she began to feel light cramping ...

The most common surgical procedure in the world today – one that every human alive today has undergone – is the clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord at birth.

In a lotus birth, rather than cutting the umbilical cord within a few minutes of the birth, the parents carry the placenta — still connected to the newborn baby — in a bowl or special pouch ...

Delaying clamping of the umbilical cord after birth benefits newborn babies, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library.The authors found babies' blood and iron levels were ...

Lotus birth is when the umbilical cord is left attached to the placenta – instead of being clamped and cut – until it falls away on its own. This means the baby stays connected to the placenta ...

Two articles published online first by the Lancet suggest that cleansing of the umbilical cord during and after birth could reduce sepsis and mortality in babies in resource-poor countries.

A 24-year-old woman who was abandoned as a newborn in a U.K. parking lot just thirty minutes after being born has been ...

A Kentucky woman gave birth steps away from a hospital entrance assisted by her husband, who tied off the umbilical cord with a protective face mask. CNN values your feedback 1.