SHE GAVE BIRTH IN GRAVE:

SHE GAVE BIRTH IN GRAVE:

( coffin birth phenomenon)

 Throughout history, childbirth has been an extremely dangerous endeavor for many women.

Sometimes the mother doesn't survive, other times the infant is miscarried, and in the most horrible cases, both the mother and child pass.

When a tragedy like this happens, it has been tradition for the mother and child to be buried together.

Excavated tombs have found evidence of this practice being commonplace, for hundreds of years.

❤ But what happens when women perish while pregnant....

As it turns out, babies born in coffins is a thing, and although extremely rare, it is a naturally occurring process.

The phenomenon is commonly known as coffin birth ~ when a pregnant mother passes, sometimes her body will force the fetus out of the womb postmortem, "birthing" a deceased child.

It has been confirmed as a real phenomenon, and is one of the more gruesome and depressing facts, of the dangers of childbirth, through history.

❤ If you go back a couple hundred years, in medical records you'll find quite a few accounts of documented coffin births.

One 17th century text has the following quote about a woman found to have delivered after her life ended:

"April ye 20, 1650, was buried Emme, the wife of Thomas Toplace, who was found delivered of a child after she had lain two hours in the grave."

Another report from the same century, described a woman who had a baby "hanging between the thighs" three days after she perished.

These are just a couple of the numerous cases on record.

❤ One report describes a pregnant woman, who was found several weeks after she passed, and this is considered one of the most graphic depictions of a coffin birth....

"The woman was bloated, green, and a half-born fetus protruded from her body.

The fetus was confirmed to have passed, when the mother did, and there were no signs of labor prior.

The autopsy confirmed that the fetus had been forced by the gasses building up in the mother"

❤ One of the earliest documented coffin births on record, occurred in 1551, when a pregnant woman was tried and hanged by the courts of the Spanish Inquisition.

Four hours after her death, and while the body still hung by the neck, two dead infants were seen to fall free of the body.

❤ In 2017, scientists announced the discovery of a coffin birth, that dated all way the back to the 1300's

The grave was found near the modern city of Genoa, Italy.

A mother was buried alongside her children, including an infant that is believed to have been a coffin birth.

The mother and her children were likely victims of the bubonic plague, as sampling of their DNA found trace amounts of the disease in their systems.

❤ When excavating an ancient tomb, the last thing most archaeologists would expect to find, is the skeleton of a fetus half-protruding from its mother.

There have been several cases where archaeologists discovered just that, but fortunately, those discoveries are helping us better understand this macabre phenomenon.

❤ Researchers believe they've figured out why coffin birth happens.

It has everything to do with putrefication, which is what happens to your body after you expire.

As your cells begin to decay, they start releasing large amounts of gasses, as a waste product.

The gasses can start to build up to the point that they need to find an escape route, which can often cause the body to burst.

This process could be the explanation for coffin birth, as the excess of gases can theoretically push the baby out, as they look for a way to relieve the pressure.

 While "coffin birth" certainly has more of a morbid ring to it, its proper name is Postmortem Fetal Extrusion/Expulsion.

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❤ In these pictures, the chilling remains of a medieval woman, found in Italy, reveal she 'gave birth' after her death.