From: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061213/4074903.asp
SOMERS
Mother, preemie die hours after Caesarean
12/13/2006 SOMERS (AP) - A woman who had an emergency Caesarean section after a car crash died within hours of the delivery along with her premature baby, state police said Tuesday.
Police had described the pregnant woman's injuries as non-life threatening after the Monday accident, but an autopsy showed she died of blood loss after the surgery.
Investigator Michael Davis said Lina Borshchov, 27, of Beacon, was "speaking to the EMS people and moving her arms" as she was being taken out of her smashed car on Route 100 in Somers after the crash.
Borshchov's car was hit by a a vehicle driven by Elizabeth Carlen, 84, of Millwood, when Carlen drifted into oncoming traffic while rounding a curve, police said. Carlen was killed.
Borshchov was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, where doctors performed the Caesarean, Davis said. Police said Borshchov died at 11 p.m., and the baby died shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday. The baby's death was attributed to complications of premature childbirth.
For what it's worth, it doesn't say why the cesarean was done - it may have been a perfectly good reason and this is not a criticism of the fact that the mother had one. But when was the last time you heard of someone dying after a vaginal birth?
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