Obstetrics

Should you eat your placenta: Yes or no?

Perhaps you heard that Hollywood celebrity Kim Kardashian ate her placenta after the birth of her second child. You can get the horror movie-style images out of your head. The placenta was freeze-dried and put into pill form to be consumed over several months. There are claims that if you ingest your placenta, it can…

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Obstetrics

A Pregnancy Journey

My name is Megan. I am a wife to Lonnie, mom to Jude (age 6) and Bryce (age 3), a full-time career woman, an occasional PTA mom, definitely not housekeeper of the year, sometimes family chef and currently pregnant with baby No. 3. I am many other things, but for this blog, that’s probably the…

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Breastfeeding could save 800,000 babies

More than 800,000 children’s lives would be saved worldwide each year if nearly every mother breastfed her baby at birth, according to a study recently published in The Lancet. And because breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, this would also result in fewer women getting breast cancer. In addition, a recent policy statement by…

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