And postpartum hemorrhages are the top cause of maternal death (dying within 42 days of delivery ... After delivering a baby, the uterine muscles tighten to push out the placenta. After the placenta ...

Severe postpartum haemorrhage in women with grade 3 placenta accreta spectrum demonstrates significantly better outcomes in ...

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

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 ...

Changes in placental function are important because the placenta acts as an intermediate between the maternal environment and the fetus. They found that several psychiatric disorder-related genes are ...

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 ...

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...