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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 ...
Mourning her baby girl. Christina Perri opened up about her struggle to move forward after suffering a pregnancy loss last year. “My body was truly, truly broken,” the 35-year-old singer told ...
After getting the scans done, Jade eagerly returned home to look at the photos. She was shocked to see the profile of her late grandfather, Jack Hornsby, in the images.What's even more startling ...
An Idaho teen is behind bars after a dead baby was found in a hospital drop-off box meant for the anonymous surrender of newborns. Angel Newberry, 18, was arrested in Twin Falls more than a month ...
Concealment of birth is the act of a parent (or other responsible person) failing to report the birth of a child.The term is sometimes used to refer to hiding the birth of a child from friends or family, but is most often used when the appropriate authorities have not been informed about a stillbirth or the death of a newborn.
A newborn has been found dead inside a "thermal cradle" left for abandoned babies at a church in Italy, according to multiple news reports. On the morning of Thursday, Jan. 2, the baby boy's ...