Came home from a placental abruption resulting in a horrifying emergency c section and 2 week hospital stay and made a bad choice to watch House of the Dragon where cesareans are a death sentence. I did a bit of research and found out medieval c sections did happen but were only performed if the mother was dying anyway as it was always fatal. I understand that infection would’ve killed any surviving women back then but apparently they died during the operation anyway. So I’m confused about what killed women during the procedure it’s self? As far as I’m aware I did not receive a blood transfusion so it can’t have been blood loss which would’ve been my guess pre my own experience. Did they not have the medical tools necessary to put those women back together afterwards eg stitches? Or did they not know how to make insicions in a non fatal way?
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A factor is that knowing the inevitable result anyway, they probably didn’t even try to to save the mother as it would have amounted to little more but extending the agony. Death by blood poisoning and rotting flesh is a particularly ugly thing, they probably just let the women die of blood loss as comparatively it’s not so bad, over with quickly and without much fuss.
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