As people grow and get older, they may add fat tissue to their abdomens. That makes the belly button appear bigger or deeper. It can even change its shape. That’s why an outie belly button – where ...

When you hear about knots in the umbilical cord, it can sound worrying, but they aren’t always dangerous. These knots usually form when your baby moves around in the womb. Most of the time, they don’t ...

Cutting the cord is a momentous event in a baby's life. For nine months, the developing fetus is attached to its mother by the umbilical cord. Then, moments after birth, that cord is severed. Now, ...

This is the tenth casebook in a series that provides basic information designed to be helpful to the clinician responsible for interpreting umbilical cord blood gases. The series of umbilical cord ...

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For the layperson, a few minutes might tick by without a second thought, but those precious minutes after a baby is born could be beneficial for newborns later in life, some doctors say. When to ...

Scientists may have uncovered a link between the risk of autism in children and fatty acids in umbilical cord blood, but one Yale professor told Newsweek more work needs to be done in the area. To ...

Singer Rochelle Humes has come up with an unusual way to mark the birth of her second daughter Valentina Raine. The Saturdays star revealed on Instagram she has turned her baby's umbilical cord into a ...

In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured.