Now that the star is considering baby number three, here are all the facts about this potentially serious — but rare — condition A version of this article originally appeared on Health.com. You aren’t ...

Reviewed by Dr. Catherine Shaffer, Ph.D. The placenta is usually attached to the wall of the uterus. It grows in the uterus and supplies oxygen and food to the baby via umbilical cord. The placenta ...

Maternal deaths in childbirth are on the rise in the U.S. since 1999. April 18, 2011— -- Barbara George nearly hemorrhaged to death while doctors delivered her fifth child at Hackensack Medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For most women with placenta accreta spectrum disorder, leaving the placenta in situ did not lead to serious ...

Parents Taylor and Kaleb Mckey were expecting their second pregnancy to be relatively uneventful, much like their first. Will was transverse lie, sideways in the uterus, and Taylor ended up needing to ...

Jo Anne McCusker was feeling so tired that she wondered if she had long COVID. “I felt off,” McCusker, 36, of Englewood, New Jersey, told TODAY Parents. “My doctor said, ‘You may have long COVID, but ...

The placenta is a flat, circular-shaped organ that attaches to the inside wall of the uterus during pregnancy. The baby is connected to the placenta through the umbilical cord. By birth, the placenta ...

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 ...

March 13, 2009 (San Diego, California) — The prophylactic use of a special occlusion balloon catheter ready to be inflated if needed at the time of cesarean delivery to block potentially perfuse blood ...