A normal-looking placenta with the cord inserted in the center. This is the baby's side.

This is the mother's side. It was attached to the wall of the uterus.

A cool heart-shaped placenta I worked on one year around Valentine's Day.

A placenta with a marginal cord insertion (at the edge instead of in the middle.)

This placenta has an extra lobe, called a succenturiate lobe.

A close up of the marginal insertion.

A cool shot of the amniotic sac. The baby lived inside there!