variants
or caesarean section
as in natural childbirth
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Delivered by cesarean section at Nasser Hospital a few days earlier on Aug. 15, Abdel Hadi Al-Qanou was almost 7 pounds when he was born.
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Ala'a Ibrahim, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Patients with those conditions are also more likely to have a pregnancy that ends in miscarriage or premature birth and are more likely to need a cesarean section, a major surgery that is especially hard for patients with diabetes to recover from.
—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2024
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
—Sarah Varney, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
The woman, who sought a tubal ligation during her third birth by cesarean section, now has an 8-year-old daughter.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Sep. 2024
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Ala'a Ibrahim, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Patients with those conditions are also more likely to have a pregnancy that ends in miscarriage or premature birth and are more likely to need a cesarean section, a major surgery that is especially hard for patients with diabetes to recover from.
—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2024
Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
—Sarah Varney, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
The woman, who sought a tubal ligation during her third birth by cesarean section, now has an 8-year-old daughter.
—Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Sep. 2024
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“Cesarean section.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesarean%20section. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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