Born for greatness!
This baby’s head is popping out of its mother’s womb during a c-section and is half way though his delivery!
The team of obstetricians are performing c-sections when a vaginal delivery would put the baby's or mother's life/health at risk, complications such as breech presentation (baby's buttocks, instead of the head, exits the pelvis first), fetal distress, cord collapse, failed labour induction and macrosomia (baby's weight >4kg). Either a transverse or a vertical incision may be made on the uterus and must allow enough room to deliver the fetus without risking injury (either tearing or cutting) to the uterine arteries and veins that are located at the lateral margins of the uterus.
The initial incision is small and is continued into the uterine wall until either the fetal membranes are visualized or the cavity is entered, with care taken not to injure the underlying fetus.
The incision is then extended bilaterally and the presenting part of the fetus is identified. It is delivered either as a vertex presentation or as a breech, with the help of the obstetricians and the contractile forces of the uterus.
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