Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might.

A coffee shop employee who said she did not know she was pregnant unexpectedly gave birth to a child in a Bangkok petrol station toilet on Monday, initially believing she was suffering nothing more ...

How did we end up in this situation, where every child is born pre-polluted? The answer lies in America’s fervor for the ...

Can it help with Type 1 diabetes? A: The term “cord blood” refers to the fetal blood that remains in the placenta and the umbilical cord after a baby has been delivered. It is rich in stem ...

What Is Cord Blood Banking? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting potentially life-saving stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and storing them for future use. Stem cells are ...

Yes, the placenta was still inside and still attached ... said the mini tot ''was still receiving oxygen through the umbilical cord as well''. Samantha, who calls herself a ''natural birth ...

She said that babies get oxygen from their mother's blood, through blood vessels in the placenta and the umbilical cord. "During pregnancy, a woman's body develops a whole new organ called the ...