Hagendorn mentions the birth of a living child some hours after the death of the mother.

Dethardingius mentions a healthy child born one-half hour after the mother's death.

In the Gentleman's Magazine there is a record of an instance, in 1759, in which a midwife, after the death of a woman whom she had failed to deliver, imagined that she saw a movement under the shroud and found a child between its mother's legs.

It died soon after.

Valerius Maximus says that while the body of the mother of Gorgia Epirotas was being carried to the grave, a loud noise was heard to come from the coffin and on examination a live child was found between the thighs,--whence arose the proverb: "Gorgiam prius ad funus elatum, quam natum fuisse." Other cases of postmortem delivery are less successful, the delivery being delayed too late for the child to be viable.