cesarean
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But after 25 hours of laboring at home, including five hours of pushing, Rae, then 38, was transferred to the hospital where she had an emergency cesarean section.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
She had also nearly died during Abel’s emergency cesarean birth, and developed a serious infection after it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Vaginal birth complications increased 22.4%, and cesarean birth complications increased 48.9%.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Gabriel was born by cesarean section on 2 June 2023 and has been in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh ever since.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2024
Her placenta had weakened and she’d had a cesarean, though not quickly enough.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
