Posthumous birth
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posthumous-birth-213-4055924
title:
Posthumous birth
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A posthumous birth is the birth of a child after the death of a parent. A person born in these circumstances is called a posthumous child or a posthumously born person. Most instances of posthumous birth involve the birth of a child after the death of its father, but the term is also applied to infants delivered shortly after the death of the mother, usually by caesarean section.
The many women who die and have died in childbirth seem to be considered not worthy of record; hence this is largely
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encyclopedia
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Birth after the death of a parent
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_birth
date created:
2008-05-14T03:24:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T11:27:19Z
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