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“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 ...

Fruit of the Womb turns a woman's placenta into pill form. August 5, 2011— -- Mother-of-three Tamara Guida believes that women should eat their own placenta because the nutrient-packed organ that ...

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In almost all mammals, the placenta — the organ that develops in pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the baby and remove waste products — is eaten by the mother immediately after giving birth ...