cesarean section

variants or caesarean section

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Recent Examples of cesarean section This week, an appellate court upheld a lower court's finding that the hospital delayed a cesarean section—causing the child to be born with severe brain injuries including cerebral palsy. Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025 On June 13, 2025, her premature baby, named Chance, was born via cesarean section at 25 weeks. Lindsey Breitwieser, The Conversation, 1 July 2025 The family returned home and the hospital scheduled a cesarean section for April 14. Rebecca Grant june 24, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025 The physician from Reno, Nevada, knew what to expect after giving birth to her second daughter via cesarean section in 2016. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cesarean section
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cesarean section
Noun
  • Ruggiero said all of Jackson’s hospitals are using wireless monitors so expecting moms who want natural childbirth can walk around.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The generation that ushered in the birth control pill, natural childbirth, and free love really left us in the lurch for the third chapter of the story that begins with periods, includes babies, and ends with our ovaries closing up shop.
    Anne Fulenwider, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, which recommends using acetaminophen to treat fever and pain in pregnant women, says that untreated fever can cause grave harms such as miscarriage, birth defects or premature birth, especially early in a pregnancy.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Other pain- and fever-reducing medications, such as ibuprofen and aspirin, carry risks during pregnancy, and acetaminophen is the only over-the-counter drug approved to treat fevers during pregnancy.
    Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 23 Sep. 2025

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