JAKE PEACOCK has made serious waves in the brutal and bloody world of Muay Thai. The British-born Canadian – the son of ...

Previable premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is when the amniotic sac, the protective membrane that surrounds the fetus, ...

Opioid use during pregnancy—whether of highly addictive drugs like fentanyl or controlled opioids like buprenorphine—doubles ...

On February 17, a maternity hospital in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, delivered a remarkable baby. The infant was born via caesarean section, but in an extremely rare occurrence, the amniotic sac remained intact ...

NEW mum Lottie Tomlinson has joined the likes of Kim Kardashian and Rochelle Humes who decided to eat their own placenta ...

With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the state’s highest court Wednesday to argue how restrictive the ban should be.

Mono-di twins share a placenta, which means they need extra monitoring to make sure they're getting enough nutrients and ...

It is time for states that have banned abortion to put an end to the horror stories of women being refused emergency medical ...

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

Here’s what you can expect when labor is 24 to 48 hours away: One obvious sign indicating the start of labor is your water breaking, or more specifically, the rupture of your amniotic sac.

(CNN) — Scientists in Australia have successfully produced the world’s first kangaroo embryo through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a feat they hailed as a “ground-breaking achievement ...