An infant’s face was allegedly seriously cut during a cesarean, with doctors telling the mother the baby ‘shouldn’t have moved so much’.
Darya Kadochnikova, 19, had wanted a natural birth at a public hospital in the city of Kyshtym in south-western Russia’s Chelyabinsk Oblast region.
Doctors decided a C-section was the safest option when the baby girl changed position, according to local Russian media. When epidural anesthesia didn’t work, the young mother was put to sleep with intravenous anesthesia.
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She was ‘shocked’ when she allegedly woke up to find a large cut on her newborn’s face. Doctors are reported to have told Ms. Kadochnikova that her daughter ‘shouldn’t have moved so much’.
The new mum is said to have suffered from high fever following the cesarean. She is reportedly breastfeeding her baby while on antibiotics.
The hospital didn’t make any comment on the incident yet.