Do you know where the word "caesarian" came from? julius caesar plus brutus.

WELL! haha, mymy, that makes my c-section scar hurt, haha!! i had no idea, thanks for sharing!!

I've never heard that before. I had my son that way too because the cord got wrapped around his neck in the womb. Congrats to your sister!!

Actually, some say the The Caesarian was invented when Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked his way out of his mother's whom. :) The best of health to your niece and sister!

I thought the word "Caesarian" came because the physicians had to take Julius from his mother's stomach because he was too big to come out or she was too small inside. I suppose they would have had to kill her to do this, since at that time, they did not have any antiseptic. And I suppose that they made a law saying it was all right to save the baby over saving the mother and I suppose most women requested it or it would not have been passed.

As colorful as that tale is, it is probably no more true than the other popular explanation which claims that Caeser himself was a C-section baby. In all probability, the term is actually derived from the Roman law called "lex caesarea" which said, in effect, that it was OK to kill a mother to save the life of a child in cases where it looked likely that the mother was going to die anyway. When medical science progressed to the point where this surgery could be performed without killing the mother, it became fashionable to encourage the procedure for various reason unrelated to the welfare of the child.

wow what a great piece of information to share.

That's interesting. But I wonder why it is related to child birth. I would think something from Macbeth would be more appropriate (where the guy who kills Macbeth was not born and taken out of his mother's womb).