Vasa previa is a rare complication that can occur during pregnancy. It happens when some of the blood vessels that connect your baby's umbilical cord to your placenta cross over, or near, the opening ...

Placenta previa is when a pregnant person's placenta blocks the opening to the cervix that allows the baby to be born. It can cause severe bleeding during pregnancy and delivery. Mothers with placenta ...

“It didn’t hit me that this could potentially be problematic,” Courtney Nowak, of Staten Island, NY remembers thinking. She had just had a routine sonogram at 13 weeks and her doctor had drawn her a ...

Vasa previa is an extremely rare, but severe, complication of pregnancy. In vasa previa, some fetal umbilical cord blood vessels run across or very close to the internal opening of the cervix. These ...

If the placenta partially or entirely blocks the regular vaginal delivery route, a doctor may refer to this as placenta previa. The placenta is an organ that develops inside the uterus during ...

Placenta previa occurs when the placenta covers the opening of the cervix during the last months of pregnancy. This condition can cause severe bleeding before or during labor. The placenta develops in ...