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Baby Delivery Lawsuit Laced With Gory Details

     CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) – An obstetrician pushed the severed head of a baby boy back into his mother’s birth canal and then ordered a cesarean section, a distraught couple claims in court.     Arteisha Betts and Travis Ammonette say they went to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center on March 22, 2011, when Betts started experiencing preterm contractions, 28 weeks and five days into her pregnancy.     Dr. Susan Moore had observed weeks earlier that Betts would need a cesarean section because her baby had an unusually large abdomen, according to the complaint in St. Louis County Circuit Court.     Betts says the medical team could not halt her contractions, and that her primary doctor, Gilbert Webb, refused to deliver the baby by cesarean section. Betts said Webb also refused to allow them to go to another hospital.     The rest of the complaint reads like a bad horror film.     “Believing she had no other choice than to agree to a trial of vaginal delivery, plaintiff Arteisha Betts consented to a trial of vaginal delivery under duress and protest,” the complaint states.     “During the second stage of labor sometime before 10:34 p.m. on the evening of March 22, 2011, decedent Kaden Travis Ammonette’s head delivered, and decedent was at that time still alive.     “During the second stage of labor sometime before 10:34 p.m. on the evening of March 22, 2011, after decedent Kaden Travis Ammonette’s head was delivered, decedent’s abdomen became stuck in the birth canal (a condition known as abdominal dystocia).     “Defendant Webb recognized that decedent Kaden Travis Ammonette was stuck on his mother’s birth canal, and he cut a generous 4th degree episiotomy into plaintiff Arteisha Betts perineum.     “Despite cutting a generous 4th degree episiotomy into plaintiff Arteisha Betts’ perineum, [...]