The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta. It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb ...

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 ...

After 30 weeks and three days of uncertainty and complications, the Cranston couple successfully delivered four identical ...

Breech babies are at risk of injury and a prolapsed umbilical cord ... that the maneuver could cause the baby's cord to become entangled or the placenta to separate from the uterus.

A Rhode Island couple welcomed the birth of their beautiful quadruplet baby girls at a Valley hospital several days ago.

In its early life, the placenta ... realistic to expect them within three weeks. A needle is inserted through the wall of the uterus into one of the baby's blood vessels, usually in the umbilical ...