Now that the star is considering baby number three, here are all the facts about this potentially serious — but rare — condition A version of this article originally appeared on Health.com. You aren’t ...

The news hit Margarita Saavedra so hard that she fainted in her doctor’s office. Eighteen weeks into her pregnancy, an ultrasound found the fetus could not survive because of a deadly birth defect.

The placenta is an astonishing organ; it is, after all, essential for growing healthy babies. However, in my last pregnancy, the very thing that was giving my daughter life was also something that was ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It was supposed to be a beautiful time in her life. Margarita Saavedra and her husband were expanding their family with a new baby. Then, at 18 weeks, 35-year-old Margarita ...

Reviewed by Dr. Catherine Shaffer, Ph.D. The placenta is usually attached to the wall of the uterus. It grows in the uterus and supplies oxygen and food to the baby via umbilical cord. The placenta ...

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death. Yet why it happens is still not ...

SAN ANTONIO — It's a condition that could lead to life-threatening complications for both mom and baby, and advocates focus on raising awareness for it each October. Placenta accreta is a pregnancy ...

HONOLULU — The risk for placenta accreta is 3 times higher in pregnancies achieved with in vitro fertilization using frozen embryo transfer than in those using fresh embryos, according to a new study.

MINNEAPOLIS — Risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) appears substantially greater in patients with placenta accrete than in other pregnant patients, found a small single-center study presented at the ...

After I gave birth to my first child this past spring, I had a thought I never could have imagined would cross my mind: Wow, I bet Kim Kardashian West totally gets me. (And no, my child is named ...

I had placenta accreta — the same thing that Kim Kardashian West had — but mine didn’t end as well as hers did. I died. A placenta accreta is a dangerous condition where the placenta embeds itself too ...