The placenta, or afterbirth, is considered sacred by some cultures, its pivotal role in pregnancy recognized as far back as the raising of Egypt's pyramids. It provides nutrients and oxygen to the ...

Researchers at IIT Madras have unveiled a cutting-edge tool — a detailed 3D map of five developing baby brains from the ...

What to expect each month and how to support your infant’s physical, emotional, and social development confidently.

When doctors gave their baby no chance of survival, the Kelleys chose a miracle. After 266 days in the NICU, baby Kasan came ...

Placental growth insufficiency, which starves the fetus of nutrition and oxygen, leaves doctor and mother with no option to ...

Similarly, Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, explores the limits of human cognition. According to Kant, our ...

The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother's womb.The placenta, or ...

"This may indicate the baby's calm, trouble-free existence in the womb and the relatively traumatic first few weeks after birth, when the baby is reacting to a strange, new environment," he added.

Most babies shed it in the womb at around 33-36 weeks of pregnancy ... While some babies may be born with this soft fine hair ...