Your placenta should attach to the top or side of your uterus, nowhere near your cervix (the opening of your uterus). If you have placenta previa, your placenta attaches low in your uterus ...

However it concluded that “no significant difference in maternal iron levels was ... There might be even side effects of ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 ...

Examining the associations between the survey responses and placental DNA methylation, NIH genetic epidemiologist Fasil Tekola-Ayele and colleagues found that maternal depression was correlated with ...

Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify ...

And postpartum hemorrhages are the top cause of maternal death (dying within 42 ... the uterine muscles tighten to push out the placenta. After the placenta is delivered, the strong uterine ...

While it’s still pretty rare — placenta accreta occurs in 3 in 1,000 pregnancies, according to the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine — it’s on the rise. In the 1970s the incidence was ...