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 ...

Because the fetus moves a lot inside the uterus, the umbilical cord can get wrapped and unwrapped around the baby many times throughout the pregnancy. While there are "cord accidents" in which the ...

A baby was found abandoned on the street in San Antonio during the cold snap last week and was rushed to hospital for treatment.

[iStockphoto] Clamping and cutting a baby's umbilical cord as soon as it is born can be bad for its health. The World Health Organisation advises that clamping should be delayed for two to three ...

And it’s all thanks to stem cells from a baby’s umbilical cord that was frozen 16 years ago in the US. This is the longest known time for a cord to be frozen before stem cells were taken to ...

The baby was found swaddled in a towel inside a basket and breathing weakly with the umbilical cord still attached around 3 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio reported on Jan 24.