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Caesarean sectionSurgical operation to deliver a baby by way of an incision in the mother's abdominal and uterine walls. It may be recommended for almost any obstetric complication implying a threat to mother or baby. Caesarean section was named after the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, who was said to have been born this way. In medieval Europe, it was performed mostly in attempts to save the life of a child whose mother had died in labour. The Christian Church forbade cutting open the mother before she was dead.
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lower rates of breastfeeding at three months Women who conceived with ART were more likely than other Victorian childbearing women to have had a caesarean section and to be disappointed with the birth experience. Doctors delivered her by Caesarean section at 26 weeks -- 14 weeks early -- because her mother suffered from toxemia, a condition in which poisonous substances spread throughout the body. Obstetric fistula, caused by prolonged and obstructed labour without prompt medical intervention, usually through a Caesarean section, leaves women with chronic incontinence and in most cases results in a stillborn baby. |
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