Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington Post/Getty Images Eating your own placenta is marketed to come with benefits such as increased milk production.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. During pregnancy, a woman’s placenta ...

TULSA, Okla. — From art to capsules to questions about science and culture, some Tulsa moms are making very personal choices about how they heal after birth. For some moms, the placenta doesn't ...

After giving birth, some women save the placenta in order to consume it in the following weeks. In fact, Texas just passed a law giving women the right to take the placenta home from the hospital, the ...

Vick Hope has announced that she will eat her own capsulated placenta following the birth of her son Micha. Eating the placenta after birth is not an entirely foreign concept, with many claiming it ...

Placentas are the only organs women grow for temporary use during their pregnancy. It provides the baby with all its nutrients, and it produces extremely high levels of a few hormones that help the ...