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• n  the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)
• a  relating to abdominal delivery
• a  of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar

• On March 10 she had a normal baby boy by caesarean.
• But a combination of having watched traumatic vaginal deliveries in medical school and hearing about her mother's difficult emergency caesarean experience after trying to deliver .
• After giving birth vaginally, by caesarean and then vaginally again, I nearly lost consciousness reading "Womb Service.

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News & Articles

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• Ireland's first set of sextuplet babies are born
  Baby history is made: Ireland’s first set of sextuplets was brought into the world this morning. A woman from Northern Ireland gave birth to her six babies via caesarean section at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central
• Well: Rate of Early C-Sections Has Slowed, Study Finds
  In a trend that public health officials call encouraging, fewer women are undergoing early-term Caesarean deliveries. The rate of C-sections overall, which had risen steeply since the mid-1990s, leveled out at 31 percent from 2009 to 2011.        
  June 27, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Edith Bowman in Scotsman
  Bowman said: "I need these extra scans early in the pregnancy and I'll have to have a Caesarean because no-one, including my own heart specialist, sees the point in putting my heart through unnecessary stress. Childbirth risks causing deterioration...
• Angie Harmon in FOXNews
  At the shoot, "The hardest part was when the robe came off and I was like, 'And now I'm: naked,'" Harmon says. "You wonder if they can see your Caesarean scar."
• Gideon Koren in CBC.ca
  With nearly half of all infants in North America being delivered by caesarean section or after episiotomy, there is clearly a requirement for pain relief for mothers,said Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the Motherisk program at Sick Kids, and...