That is to say...hemorrhage and large tears (like third degree...going beyond the skin level tear) are the issues that a clean knife couldn't really fix. Though maybe a clean needle could...but my understanding is that rates of survival dropped once minor surgery is involved, in pre-modern Western childbirth medicine, at least.
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Date: 2011-04-27 04:41 pm (UTC)