Word: caesareans
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...brought the Marines on the double with a helicopter to fly Ethel, keeping calm, and Bobby, looking nervous, from Hyannis Port to a parking lot in Boston, where a police car took over for the rest of the trip to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for her delivery by caesarean section...
...those eleven years, say Dr. Jean E. Paquin and his colleagues, 1,030 deliveries were by caesarean section-one out of every 35. For 38 of the women, it was their fourth delivery by this means; for twelve, it was the fifth; for four, the sixth; for one, the seventh; and for two, the eighth...
...idea that a woman should have a hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
...operation, Dr. Paquin believes, is no more dangerous than it is for a grown woman to have her tonsils out. One obstetrician who agrees is Dr. John W. Walsh, 50, who expects to perform the fourth caesarean on Jackie Kennedy...
...performed only on women who died in labor, and by Caesar's own account, his mother was alive when he was 48 years old. Other popular explanations: if a Roman woman died pregnant, the operation was required by the emperor's law-Lex Caesarea-thus a caesarean section. Or the name may be derived from the Latin verb caedere...