Curious about things you can do with your placenta after birth? Placentas are routinely disposed of by U.S. hospitals—and that's a totally reasonable option! However, nowadays some parents are keeping ...

Animals do it. Chinese medicine has advocated it for centuries. The practice of eating your placenta, called placentophagy, isn't anything new, but some modern-day moms swear by it in the hopes that ...

The placenta is a defining feature of the main group of mammals, to which humans belong. It is the interface across which mother and fetus exchange nutrients and waste products during pregnancy. The ...

An obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Akinsola Akinde, has advised women against consuming their placentas, saying there is no medical evidence to support its health benefits to new mothers. Akinde, ...

The latest dizzy-sounding Hollywood craze has new mothers gobbling their baby’s placenta after giving birth. While celebrity moms, including Mandy Moore, swear eating their baby's placenta after ...