The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta. It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb ...

Inside the womb, your baby floats, rests, and grows in a tissue sac that is called the amnion or amniotic sac. The amniotic sac contains a clear fluid known as amniotic fluid. It is essential for ...

Baby Aurora was still inside her amniotic sac when she was born Credit: Adrian Sherratt It is also known as a veiled or mermaid delivery. En caul deliveries are rare, occurring in less than one in ...

The bag of waters - or amniotic sac - is a bag or "membrane filled with fluid that surrounds your baby in your uterus during pregnancy." The bag of waters is very important to your baby's health.

As Twilight star Robert Pattinson says he adores the smell of his baby girl, a parenting expert and former midwife tells us ...

Mono-mono twins are an incredibly rare type of identical twins who share both a placenta and an amniotic sac. While this makes for a high-risk pregnancy, advances in monitoring and treatment have ...

Researchers reported findings that suggest that for pregnant women who develop previable PROM, the risk of being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, needing a blood transfusion, and/or developing ...