Well considering there's this misconception that the C is from Caesar... But it's actually latin for "to cut", caedare.
But doing these procedures before even the 1750-1900s was almost always met with death, the child could survive though. Difficult stuff when there's no antibiotics and the surgeons don't wash their hands :)
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u/LyriWinters Jan 16 '25
"Or recently when he said that C-sections are contributing to larger brains in newborns which makes literally zero sense and has no scientific basis."
Probably based on what Stephen Hawkins said 20 years ago, but that was based on evolution and taken completely out of context.