breech birth
Bottom-first baby arrival
A breech birth is when a baby emerges feet or buttocks first rather than headfirst during delivery.
This position complicates labor and often requires medical intervention or cesarean section.
The term comes from breech meaning the lower rear portion of the body: The ultrasound showed the baby was breech.
- footlingSilly and unimportant
- cesareanSurgical childbirth method
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- contractionsShortened word forms
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
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- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, crowning
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