This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters — “textbook perfect,” ...

When you hear about knots in the umbilical cord, it can sound worrying, but they aren’t always dangerous. These knots usually ...

A clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has shown that an experimental treatment for patients with severe ...

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For some moms, an umbilical cord is a reminder of their crowning glory — but why are we suddenly seeing preserved placental parts all over social media? When Megan Kilpatrick, 32, was getting ready to ...