No two birth stories are the same -- but all moms try to do what they believe is best for their baby. For some new moms, that means preserving their placenta, AKA the organ that supports the fetus ...

The latest dizzy-sounding Hollywood craze has new mothers gobbling their baby’s placenta after giving birth. While celebrity moms, including Mandy Moore, swear eating their baby's placenta after ...

Animals do it. Chinese medicine has advocated it for centuries. The practice of eating your placenta, called placentophagy, isn't anything new, but some modern-day moms swear by it in the hopes that ...

In this Sept. 13, 2013, photo, A small piece of placenta sits in a jar as Laura Curtis of Placentawise in Lindon, Utah, prepares a placenta for a client that will be turned into capsules as a ...