placenta
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All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta, and breast milk contains only small amounts.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
They have already been detected in breast milk and in the placenta -- and even in the brain.
From Science Daily • Dec. 22, 2025
Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
As tradition dictated, her placenta was hurled into the Huangpu River; when it floated away, it was deemed that she too “would be raised and fed, only to drift away.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
Her placenta had weakened and she’d had a cesarean, though not quickly enough.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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