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The earliest presented case occurred in 1551 when a pregnant woman was tried and hanged by the courts of the Spanish Inquisition. Four hours after her death, and while the body still hung by the neck, two dead infants were seen to fall free of the body. This is unusual for the short amount of time elapsed between death and the postmortem delivery.
In obstetrics, a cephalic presentation or head presentation or head-first presentation is a situation at childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first; the most common form of cephalic presentation is the vertex presentation, where the occiput is the leading part (the part that first enters the birth canal). [1]
A lithopedion (also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion; from Ancient Greek: λίθος "stone" and Ancient Greek: παιδίον "small child, infant"), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, [1] is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as ...
Unfortunately, all tests the medics carried out showed that the girl was clinically dead. Her cousin, Carolina Perez, said : "Once we had taken her out of the tomb I put my hand on her body.
Photos of what pregnancy tissue from early abortions at 5 to 9 weeks actually looks like have gone viral.. The images, which were originally shared by MYA Network — a network of physicians who ...
The man who found a newborn's dead body inside a "thermal cradle" left for abandoned babies at an Italian church is opening up about the tragedy. Roberto Savarese, a 56-year-old funeral director ...
The woman told police that she had suffered a 3-month miscarriage in January but continued lying to everyone about still being pregnant. The baby survived the incident. [67] 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was eight months pregnant, was killed on October 9 in New Boston, Texas. Her baby was cut from her body by 29-year-old Taylor Parker.
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after attempting a self-induced abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States.