The cord in this case was also ruptured, but the child sustained no injury.

Taylor quotes the description of a child who died from an injury to the head caused by dropping from the mother at an unexpected time, while she was in the erect position; he also speaks of a parallel case on record.
Unusual Places of Birth .-- Besides those mentioned, the other awkward positions in which a child may be born are so numerous and diversified that mention of only a few can be made here.

Colton tells of a painless labor in an Irish girl of twenty-three, who felt a desire to urinate, and while seated on the chamber dropped a child.

She never felt a labor-pain, and twelve days afterward rode 20 miles over a rough road to go to her baby's funeral.

Leonhard describes the case of a mother of thirty-seven, who had borne six children alive, who was pregnant for the tenth time, and who had miscalculated her pregnancy.
During pregnancy she had an attack of small-pox and suffered all through pregnancy with constipation.