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 caesarian is a major operation in which you are cutting through not just skin but the muscle layer and the protective membrane around the internal organs. Unless you know exactly where to cut and not to cut and you know how to patch it all up in a way that can be healed afterwards, that is a very deadly surgery. And quite frankly it wasn’t until the late 1700s and early 1800s that people started digging up corpses in order to cut them apart and learn those skills.
Even today that is not a surgery that is taken lightly and it has a lot of risks, which is why it is reserved for pretty dangerous conditions.
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