A caesarean section or C-section is an operation performed where a baby is taken out of its mother’s womb by cutting open the abdomen. This usually happens when the mother cannot have the baby naturally. It is believed that the first person to perform a C-section, in which both mother and child were saved, was a Swiss pig gelder named Jacob Nufer in 1580!
It was only by the late 19th century with advances in the field of anaesthesia and blood transfusion that the mortality rate of C-sections was reduced. As to why this technique is called a ‘caesarean section’, one theory says that the Roman emperor Julius Caesar passed a law saying that if a pregnant woman died, the baby should be cut out of her womb so that it could survive. Another theory says that Caesar himself was taken out of his mother’s womb by C-section and the procedure is named after him.
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