breech baby
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of breech baby
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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A mother has been reunited with the medics dispatched to her home when she started to deliver her breech baby.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
Grant said one of the more challenging, if less bloody, scenes involved an effort to rotate a breech baby by applying manual pressure to a pregnant belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Breech of promise: It’s conventional wisdom that a breech baby calls for a C-section.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019
“My husband delivered a breech baby in a car in the middle of the night. “You just don’t have time to think about it,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015
The couple, Judy and Brad, had traveled to the Farm from another state because their midwife couldn’t deliver their breech baby vaginally.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2012
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