This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...
Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides ...
When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal ...
The placenta nourishes and protects your baby throughout pregnancy, filtering out what she doesn’t need and delivering the oxygen and nutrients she does. Most of the time, it attaches to the upper ...
Your hormones work tirelessly during pregnancy to support your baby’s growth. Progesterone is a vital hormone during the early developmental stages of pregnancy. Its role goes beyond preparing your ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marley Dewey, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) Eating a ...