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In many cultures, the placenta is more than tissue left over after birth. It may be understood as spiritually linked to the baby, treated as a companion or sibling, and buried to protect the child or connect them to family and land.

When Ann O'Neill suffered a stillbirth in 2018, she was bewildered. She was already a mother to three healthy children and therefore had received no information on stillbirth prevention from her doctors. But when she brought the placental pathology results from the son she lost t

Pesquisadores identificaram que a redução de uma molécula essencial ao metabolismo celular no tecido placentário pode ser o gatilho biológico do trabalho de parto — inclusive o prematuro.