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5 unusual facts about Caesarean section


DeMya Walker

In April 2006, after going through an intense four days of labor, Walker gave a Caesarean section birth to her first child, a daughter named Zachara.

Druanne White

Her unborn child also died, 40 days after the six-month-old fetus was delivered by emergency Caesarean section.

Edoardo Porro

Porro improved the so-called Cæsarean operation by excision of the uterus and adnexae, described in Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo (1876), the best known of his writings.

Girl Anachronism

The lyrics, alternately angry, apologetic, and full of complaint, deal with Amanda Palmer, the band's lead singer, as a "problem child", a trait which she blames on the fact that she was born a few days premature, by Caesarean section.

Völsung

She commanded that the child be delivered by Caesarean section, an operation that in those days cost the life of the mother.


Jakob Nufer

Jakob Nufer was a Swiss pig-gelder who, around 1500, reportedly performed the first successful Caesarean section in history in which the mother (his wife) survived.

Lady Louise Windsor

Lady Louise was delivered by the Royal Surgeon/Gynaecologist Marcus Setchell via emergency Caesarean section due to placental abruption, which caused severe blood loss to both child and mother.

Marie Colinet

By training, Colinet was a midwife-surgeon who perfected the techniques in Germany of Caesarean section delivery (which hadn't changed since the days of Julius Caesar).


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