The odds of having identical quadruplets are one in 11 million births. With Rachel Vargas's complications, her babies are one ...

A Rhode Island couple welcomed the birth of their beautiful quadruplet baby girls at a Valley hospital several days ago.

A YOUNG woman has shared how she is one of the rarest types of twins in the world. Hope Baxter and her sister, Faith, are ...

In pregnancies at risk of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN), amniocentesis is used to identify the fetus’s ...

Twins that share the same placenta often have uncoordinated growth ... This happens when an unborn baby’s cord slips through the cervix and into the vagina, after the amniotic sac breaks, and before ...

Researchers have made new discoveries about amniotic fluid, a substance historically not well understood in medical research due to the difficulty in obtaining it during pregnancy, especially across ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol—a necessary hormone for ...

Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare but severe complication of pregnancy. The rarity of the condition and the fact that AFE is a diagnosis of exclusion, make it particularly challenging to ...

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.