I checked some medical internet sites; all agreed that "utero gestation" or "in-utero gestation" refers to a fetus growing in its mother's uterus. The term may have been used on a death certificate to indicate delicately that the death was related to pregnancy. It does not give the exact cause of death - bleeding, infection, other. Bobbi

Hi Listers, Physicians usually use a Latin term when a simple Anglo-Saxon term would be more understandable to laypersons. It's considered more scientific. Utero gestation means nothing more (nor less) than pregnancy (as experienced by mammals). Which is to say the patient died due to pregnancy. It is more usual among laymen to say "died in childbirth," "during childbirth" or "due to childbirth." Sometimes I've seen "died in childbed." Since none of my ancestors had attending physicians I've never seen died of "utero gestation." -- Robert Hull <saratogabob@earthlink.net> > From: "Bobbi Chapman" <bochap@worldnet.att.net> > Reply-To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:52:48 -0500 > To: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CTNEWHAV] utero gestation > Resent-From: CTNEWHAV-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:55:56 -0600 > > I checked some medical internet sites; all agreed that "utero gestation" or > "in-utero gestation" refers to a fetus growing in its mother's uterus. The > term may have been used on a death certificate to indicate delicately that the > death was related to pregnancy. It does not give the exact cause of death - > bleeding, infection, other. > Bobbi > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >