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What is placenta previa? How to avoid the pregnancy complication that causes bleeding
Placenta previa is a rare pregnancy complication that causes the placenta to partially or fully obs…
Sara Lindberg,Mia Di Julio
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Singer Elle King plans to eat her own placenta. Here's what to know about the practice.
Elle King said she had her mom, a doula, cook her placenta. The benefits of consuming a placenta ar…
Kelly Burch
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I ate my placenta after my second and third babies. I had more energy, bled less, and produced more milk than with my first baby.
After hearing about a celebrity eating her placenta, the author decided to give it a try with her s…
Jennifer Barton
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Pregnant women with Covid-19 show placenta injury: Study
New York, May 23 (IANS) The placentas from 16 women who tested positive for Covid-19 while pregnant…
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I didn't know whether to eat my placenta at birth. After talking to doctors and doulas, I decided not to.
The author shares how after talking to several ob-gyns, she decided not to encapsulate her own orga…
Jen Glantz
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Oregon's Strange New Law Allowing Take-Home Placentas Actually Makes Perfect Sense
Women like Jones may justify eating placentas because they contain prostaglandin (which makes the u…
Christina Sterbenz
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Covid infection could damage foetuses of pregnant women: Study
Foetuses and placentas of pregnant women, especially those infected with COVID-19 at earlier points…
PTI
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Placentas from COVID-19-positive pregnant women show injury: Study
"Most of these babies were delivered full-term after otherwise normal pregnancies, so you wouldn't…
PTI
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Scientists just took a huge step to understand one of the body's most mysterious organs
Enter the "placenta-on-a-chip," a small device that replicates how a real placenta works, using act…
Ellie Kincaid
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Chrissy Teigen has been hospitalized for excessive bleeding during pregnancy
Chrissy Teigen, who's expecting her third child, a boy, with John Legend, posted videos from her ho…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Another study finds pregnant women can pass the coronavirus to their fetus, but it's rare
Diseases like Zika and HIV can infect fetuses, and now some researchers think the novel coronavirus…
Shira Feder
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The coronavirus may damage the placenta during pregnancy, according to a study of 16 pregnant women
A new study of 16 pregnant women with the coronavirus found all had placental damage. The babies we…
Anna Medaris Miller
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What bleeding during pregnancy means and when it's serious
Bleeding is common during pregnancy, and it isn't always a sign that somethings wrong. But it can b…
Lindsay Kalter,Olivia P. Myri…
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Doctors in France have found what they say is the world's first recorded case of an unborn child contracting COVID-19 from its mother inside the womb
Doctors said the fetus's brain bore evidence of inflammation caused by the coronavirus, which had c…
Bill Bostock
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How many ultrasounds during pregnancy are normal and what they're for
The first ultrasound is usually scheduled for the 11 to 14-week mark. The second ultrasound comes a…
Jennifer Larson
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A trio of studies suggest pregnant women could transfer the coronavirus in utero, contradicting prior research
"There are going to be a lot of emotions, some of which are sadness, grief and the unknown," Dr. J…
Anna Medaris Miller,Anna Meda…
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Pregnant women pass fewer coronavirus antibodies to unborn boys than girls - a clue as to why men are more vulnerable to severe COVID-19
The researchers also found that pregnant women carrying baby boys had fewer antibodies to the virus…
Aria Bendix
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What Silicon Valley is doing to make humans live longer
It's a company called Human Longevity Inc, H-L-I. We have a service at HLI called the Health Nucleu…
Jen Atalla,Alana Kakoyiannis
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Using cannabis in early pregnancy could increase the risk of stillbirth and low birth weight, study suggests
Women who tested positive for cannabis early on during pregnancy had a higher likelihood of experie…
Allana Akhtar
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Chrissy Teigen has had 2 blood transfusions and suffered a 'huge clot' while in the hospital for extreme bleeding during pregnancy
Teigen said doctors had to "scramble to hear the heartbeat" of her unborn son after her 2 blood tra…