Mercy Mueni lost her first born child in 2010 out of what she says were breathing complications at a rural hospital in Kitui County. She later learnt that the problem was as a result of her umbilical ...

Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors wait ...

A Doppler ultrasound that measures the blood flow of small unborn babies can reveal whether or not the placenta is working properly. In case of repeated deviations from these Doppler measurements, ...

Isolated single umbilical artery (iSUA) is a congenital condition identified when one of the two normally paired umbilical arteries is absent, without any associated structural or chromosomal ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters — “textbook perfect,” ...