Miscarriages that happen from the ninth to the 16th week are often associated with problems with the umbilical cord, including velamentous cord insertion. If you or your baby have unusual ...

The umbilical cord is a pretty big deal – after all, that miraculous tube of tissue connects your growing baby to your placenta. So if you've been diagnosed with velamentous cord insertion or a ...

Your baby’s umbilical cord is his lifeline, connecting him to your placenta. Any abnormality in the way it's attached to the placenta can put a pregnancy at higher risk of complications.

(Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) Vasa previa can happen when your baby's umbilical cord doesn't implant into your placenta like it's supposed to. Instead, with velamentous cord insertion ...

When an exceedingly rare complication — velamentous insertion of the umbilical cord — arose early in the pregnancy, it became clear that a hospital birth would be necessary. Although Naya’s ...

In vasa previa, some fetal umbilical cord blood vessels run across ... but it is thought to develop in the same way as a velamentous cord insertion, which is when the fetal blood vessels are ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Around one in 11 million. Those are the odds medical experts gave Rachel and Marco Vargas for their rare pregnancy. Vargas Family ultrasound (Courtesy: Banner Health ...