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 ...

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 ...

You may want to wait until after lunch to read about the latest fad in childbirth: placenta-eating. The practice has been around for a while, and many animals do it, but it’s now enjoying renewed ...