How to Use cesarean in a Sentence

cesarean

noun
  • If given the choice, the father would choose the child over the mother as a cesarean would kill you.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Not making a big cut in the uterus decreases the odds that the mother will give birth prematurely and need a cesarean.
    Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 June 2019
  • She was given an emergency cesarean, but the 24-week-old baby and the mother died after surgery.
    Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The reported death in April of a pregnant woman who was refused a cesarean by three midwives also sparked outrage in the country.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • In fact, said Dr. Rossiter, cord compression is a common cause of emergency cesareans.
    New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Yet women who were having a cesarean rarely wore the inflatable cuffs on their legs that most patients wear during surgery to prevent clots from forming.
    Adam Wolfberg, The Atlantic, 26 May 2017
  • Once she was left in tears, feeling helpless when a woman of color was threatened during labor with a court order for wanting to hold off on a cesarean.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • If your care provider recommends a cesarean, repeat the same questioning.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 29 June 2023
  • In the United States, 32 percent of women deliver by cesarean.
    Nikki Kolb, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Experts agree that scaling back cesareans is a difficult task.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • One popular theory is that the term cesarean was derived from the surgical birth of the Roman leader Julius Caesar.
    Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Another died at the age of 26 after an emergency cesarean.
    Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
  • There was no difference in the mode of delivery between the two groups — unassisted, forceps or cesarean — and no differences in any measure of the baby’s or mother’s health.
    Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2017
  • In particular, if the circumstance for previous cesarean (ie: breech presentation, failure to dilate) is not present the next time around, that bodes well for mom.
    Mariko Zapf, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2017
  • But other reasons for the rise in cesarean deliveries, including the readings from a fetal monitor, are less clear-cut.
    Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • And women who have one cesarean, which weakens the uterine wall, are more likely to have a second or third rather than risk a uterine rupture during subsequent labor and delivery.
    Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Fecal samples were taken from babies age four, seven or 21 days old, who had been born in UK hospitals by vaginal delivery or cesarean.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • High levels of vitamin C can help to speed up healing, which is important after giving birth, whether vaginally or via cesarean.
    Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Proponents of excluding VBAC moms from midwives' scope of practice say that trying for a vaginal birth after a cesarean poses too many risks for an out-of-hospital birth setting.
    Anna Claire Vollers, AL.com, 25 May 2017
  • Complications with the birth resulted in Viserys having to make a choice between saving Aemma or his child — via a certain-to-be-fatal medieval attempt at a cesarean.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The misshapen heads also affect reproduction, because bulldog puppies cannot fit through their mother's birth canal and must be delivered via cesarean.
    Nick Norman, National Geographic, 28 July 2016
  • Some hospitals in Chicago allow women to try to labor after a previous cesarean.
    Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • The study found that babies born via cesarean had more bacteria that are typically acquired in hospitals, and were more likely to have antimicrobial resistance.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Kaiser Southern California has delayed such inductions, as well as planned cesareans due to coronavirus.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • That’s risky because if a woman in labor starts bleeding or her baby isn’t getting enough oxygen, obstetricians must perform an emergency cesarean.
    Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • That's risky because if a woman in labor starts bleeding or her baby isn't getting enough oxygen, obstetricians must perform an emergency cesarean.
    Linda A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
  • While cesareans are common when delivering twins, McCants, who had a complication-free pregnancy, had hoped for a natural birth.
    NBC News, 11 May 2018
  • Life-saving cesareans, in which the mother's abdomen and womb are cut open and her baby is removed rather than birth through the vaginal canal, are generally performed when mother or child is experiencing an emergency condition.
    Susan Scutti, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • Pet exposure was also linked to lower fecal levels of Enterobacteria even among babies born by emergency cesarean who normally have high levels of these microbes at three months of age.
    Lisa Rapaport, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Typically, developers based their algorithms on studies showing a correlation between race and some medical outcome, assuming race explained or was even the cause of, say, a poorer outcome (from a vaginal birth after a cesarean, say).
    Sharon Begley, STAT, 17 June 2020

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