placenta

Seyi, 35, lost her second daughter, Iyanu, in 2021 after a placenta abruption at 36 weeks.

She was blue and didn’t seem to be breathing at first while she was still connected to the placenta, which Downing said is normal.

All medications pass the placenta, and many will reach the brain of the fetus, said Veerle Bergink, director of Mount Sinai’s Women’s Mental Health Center in New York.

“The antibodies have to cross the placenta,” and that takes time.

But there’s another such structure that I’d like to give its due today: the placenta.