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Do babies with too-big heads regularly die at birth if C-section isn't available?
by aklemm 8y ago
Do babies with too-big heads regularly die at birth if C-section isn't available?
- evgen 8y agoIn the world of modern medicine where complications like this would lead to an immediate c-section? No. Roll the clock back a couple of centuries or so and both mother and child would die.
- analognoise 8y agoYes, and it can kill the mother as well. I don't have statistics, but my wife and/or son wouldn't have made it without a csection.
- stordoff 8y agoAs far as I know, no, because emergency Caesareans are available (I was an emergency Caesarean - my mother was told I was 'small', and I ended up being close to 13lbs[1]), but it can cause other complications - my sister still has a small scar from a forceps birth, and the recovery time was longer for my mother. [1] The entire pre-birth care was flawed - at one point they couldn't find a pulse for over 24 hours and they were telling my mother to induce labour (because I was dead...). Edit: spelling fix