Q: My 25-year-old daughter is expecting my first grandchild, a girl, and she recently learned she has a two vessel umbilical cord. Her doctor did not explain this in any detail, only mentioning lower ...

The umbilical cord is a three-vessel cord that provides nutrients and oxygen to your baby while they're in the uterus. Usually, the cord doesn’t have any issues, but there are several conditions that ...

Velamentous cord insertion affects the baby's connection to the placenta, which develops when you are pregnant. The placenta is a unique organ that contains tissue from both the baby and the mother.

Hannah Dahlen receives funding from NHMRC and ARC. She is affiliated with the Australian College of Midwives. This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a new series where readers send in questions ...

Doctors in Germany could have achieved a breakthrough as they treated a young girl suffering from a severe pulmonary condition that can lead to heart failure, by applying umbilical cord stem cell ...

On the Cause of the Spiral Direction of the Umbilical Vessels, and the Convolutions of the Cord in the Human Foetus. By John Simpson, Esq, F H S C., L H.C.P., Surgeon ...

The umbilical cord also termed as the navel string or funiculus umbilicalis, is the channel between the developing fetus and the placenta. It carries oxygenated blood and nutrients from the placenta ...

An umbilical granuloma is one of the most common umbilical abnormalities in newborns. The granuloma looks like a ball of moist, red tissue on the bellybutton. They most frequently occur in newborns ...