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TRANSMISSION TROUBLE Pregnant women who are infected with HIV can cut in half their risk of transmitting the AIDS virus to their newborns by having a C-section. If women are also taking anti-AIDS drugs, their risk is reduced even more--87%. Part of the reason may be that babies are less exposed to HIV during a caesarean--which, though bloody, is quick--than during the many hours of labor that can accompany a vaginal delivery...
...doctor thought he was one for the record books. His middle-aged parents welcomed him as an unexpected 8-lb. 15-oz. bundle of joy. Delivered by C-section in a suburban Los Angeles hospital, Baby Billy, as he was nicknamed by the local paper, is a medical miracle--the product of an embryo frozen for 7 1/2 years. For a few days last week, Billy, whose parents prefer anonymity, was hailed as the oldest human embryo ever brought to term. Then the bubble burst...
...hand, here were seven babies, undersized, one critical, the rest in serious condition in an Iowa hospital, with a difficult future ahead. At the heart of it was Bobbi McCaughey, who gave birth to septuplets Wednesday after more than 40 specialists spent six minutes to deliver the babies by C-section. Only the second known time that a woman has born seven live babies raised new questions about the advisability of unpredictable fertility treatments that can often result in multiple births. The septuplets were conceived when the McCaugheys turned to the hormone Pergonal after experiencing difficulties with the birth...
Women who have had a C-SECTION and then try but fail to deliver the next baby vaginally double their risk of suffering rare complications in childbirth. Among them: ruptured uterus and bowel lacerations...
...three children.) Others say that Ward wanted the boy for himself, and boasted shortly after the murder that he had just had a baby boy. Either way, prosecutors believe the three acted in unison inside Evans' apartment, with Caffey allegedly using scissors and a knife to perform a C-section on Evans. Then Williams, who has some training as a nurse's aide, extracted the 38-week-old, 6-lb. 8-oz. baby. After reviving Elijah with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Williams inexpertly cut the umbilical cord, then cleaned and dressed...