Tag: Placenta

Medical emergencies come uninvited and at the most unexpected times. While we try our best to avoid them, the situations aren't always in our...

As your due date approaches, you are probably more focused on what will happen during the labor but missed out on what follows afterward....

There are so many amazing things about giving birth. We know pregnancy is totally empowering, hard, and you can hardly doubt your ability, but...

A vaginal birth is what you wanted. But, your baby was not ready to come out the way you planned. Well, you are not...

All things perfectly planned – nursery, baby car seat, stroller, hospital bag, birthing classes – now all that you have to do is just...

The latter part of the third trimester is when the pregnancy bump gets huge. A sure moment that comes to every mom is to decide whether...

Giving birth is both scary and exciting for a woman. The labor pains, the waiting, and the tiredness makes it a feat. Women feel...

You can never match the excitement of a mother whose gets to listen to her baby’s heartbeat for the first time. It is that...

Home birth is a vaginal delivery where the moms deliver comfortably in the four walls of their own home, preferably in a birthing tub...

The placenta is an organ in the mother’s uterus that is responsible for providing necessary nutrition to the growing baby. It also helps in...

Expulsion of placenta is associated with the third stage of labor, the failure of which causes a rare placental disorder: Retained placenta. It's mainly caused by uterus (Uterine Atony) and placenta (Placenta Percreta, Placenta Accreta, Placenta Increta). Heavy bleeding, severe pain, cramps, and lack of breast milk are the symptoms. On diagnosis of this condition, doctors manually remove, dilate, and curette the placenta; otherwise, could be life-threatening too. Homeopathy approach is also an alternative, providing anti-hemorrhagic and female remedies.

Celeb moms vouch for the benefits of eating their own placenta, such as relief from postpartum pain and depression, replenishment of the iron lost during childbirth, and enhanced milk production. However, eating the placenta has not been a traditional practice among most cultures, and no research has so far proved its health benefits. Rather, the risk of infection due to contamination is significantly high.

Definition Abruptio placentae (also known as placental abruption) is the premature separation of the placenta that occurs late in the pregnancy.nurseslabs               Pathophysiology The placenta has implanted in the correct location. For some unknown reasons,...

If you are pregnant, chances are that you probably get worked up about every little change in your body. While some changes are simply...