Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now ...

The umbilical cord connects you to your baby in the womb and acts as a link from the placenta to your baby’s belly button and stomach. The average cord is about 50cm long. In the placenta, oxygen and ...

Does the presence of the umbilical cord around the baby’s neck in an obstetric ultrasound significantly affect the health of the baby? Pregnancy is often an exciting milestone for many women and ...

What is your baby's umbilical cord? The umbilical cord starts to form at about 4 weeks of pregnancy. It's your baby's lifeline to the placenta, the pancake-shaped organ attached to your uterus.

Researchers hope that they may be used to treat many conditions, like Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart failure, spinal cord damage, and other conditions. It's possible that storing your child's cord ...

"I am at the children’s hospital quite a lot, but I embrace having Spina Bifida. It is part of me." Alex, from Bournville in Birmingham, wants to raise awareness and increase understanding of ...

His spinal cord was completely severed - and he has no ... David's health improved to such an extent he has was able to have a baby girl with his partner Janine, something that was not possible ...

A team of around 25 clinicians carried out the complex operation to repair her baby's exposed spinal cord and close the hole in her back. "I knew if I didn't get the operation the quality of her ...