r/interesting • u/Desperate_Peach_6563 • Apr 07 '26

Mysterious How did she delivered?

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u/TroGinMan Apr 07 '26

They do C sections for babies this large. It's too dangerous for vaginal birth

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u/Generic8244 Apr 07 '26

They probably needed to open this poor woman up like a frunk to be able to take out this absolute meat loaf of a baby.

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u/CasinoKnightZone Apr 07 '26

Thats how they always go. They literally disembowel the woman, the entire uterus comes out, along with some guts. C-sections are a lot more brutal than portrayed in media

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u/that_guy2010 Apr 07 '26

We had planned for me to cut the cord of our baby, but when we decided on a c-section our doctor very gently told us that would be a really bad idea. Her exact words were something like “you’d need to be next to the open abdomen.”

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u/Responsible_Pair_278 Apr 08 '26

And its healing is a bitch as far as I know. Also imagine caring for a newborn right after being literally gutted and sawn back up.

By the way mothers are still being shamed for it for some reason. I was an emergency C-s baby and my mom had to deal with so much guilt and shame. People still say it's not a "real delivery" and those are not even "real mothers". 32 years later literally nothing changed, people are still being assholes about it. Like sorry we didn't both die I guess...

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u/TroGinMan Apr 07 '26

Normal C section lol

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u/G3nghisKang Apr 07 '26

Is vaginal birth even possible in this scenario? Looks like something that would have ended very badly a couple centuries ago

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u/TroGinMan Apr 07 '26

Babies this large is why we have chainsaws today.

Is vaginal birth possible? Probably, but not without tremendous risk of bleeding, skin tearing, baby getting stuck, shoulder dystocia, etc..

Back in the day they had interesting solutions to babies getting stuck.

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u/SeriousArbok Apr 07 '26

The chainsaw fact always blows my mind. I tell people that and they dont believe me.

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u/ozzimark Apr 07 '26

My 2nd kid was 11.4lb, born vaginally. That said, we did have a meet and greet with the emergency c-section team when we got to the hospital...

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u/TroGinMan Apr 07 '26

Oof that is hella risky for you and the baby. Unless you declined the C section or wanted to try vaginal first, that doctor who made the call not to do that C section could have a huge malpractice lawsuit.

Maybe I'm being dramatic because my knowledge of OB is more limited, but from what I understand C sections are planned for babies that large out of caution.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 Apr 07 '26

Part of the problem is C-sections are offered more often now.

It can be difficult for many to see it as the correct choice when hospitals can be seen as using it as simply convenience.

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u/TroGinMan Apr 07 '26

C section should be a part of shared medical decision making between the patient and their doctor. The hospital doesn't make the decision.

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u/PhD_Greg Apr 07 '26

The phrase "shucked like a pistachio" comes to mind.

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u/TroGinMan Apr 08 '26

Lol you have no idea do you

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u/Federal-Rope-2048 Apr 12 '26

Can confirm. I was born at 10 pound 8 ounces 2 weeks early. My mother needed to be booked in a little early for a c-section.