The placenta is a pancake-shaped organ that develops within the wall of your uterus and connects to your baby though the umbilical cord. By the end of pregnancy, it grows to be about 9 inches in ...

Maternal obesity alters the structure of the placenta (a vital organ that nourishes the baby during pregnancy) more than gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM; a condition is diagnosed by poor glucose ...

The placenta is a temporary organ that grows during pregnancy to filter oxygen, blood, and nutrients to your baby. After you give birth, you will also deliver your placenta shortly after. Sometimes ...

A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer. In 2008, while the medical resident Sam Behjati was doing his ...

Marley Dewey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, ...

An anterior placenta is a typical variation of pregnancy. However, it is not an accurate way to predict the sex of the baby. People with anterior placentas can have both boys and girls. Many expecting ...

Kelsey Coolahan’s obsession began during her third year at Cooper Medical School, part of Rowan University in New Jersey. “I’m in the labor and delivery room, and I’m witnessing this whole ...

There is so much you can’t know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta. But there are two things you don’t argue about with a pregnant woman: what ...