{"id":2996,"date":"2013-04-11T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2015-03-09T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T04:11:37","slug":"barack-obamas-width-between-shoulders-dr-james-angawa-shoulder-presentation-and-shoulder-dystocia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/barack-obamas-width-between-shoulders-dr-james-angawa-shoulder-presentation-and-shoulder-dystocia\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama’s width between shoulders. Dr. James Ang’awa, Shoulder Presentation and Shoulder Dystocia."},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama’s weight and length (as a newborn baby) were record in 1961 on his Coast Province General Hospital, Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya, certificate of birth. Additionally, a measurement defined (on the document itself)\u00a0 as “width between shoulders” was also recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Skeptics have long indicated variants of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0 “Width between shoulders” is not a measurement taken at birth.<\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0“Width between shoulders” is a measurement which they’ve never heard of and, because they’ve never heard of it before, they believe that the birth certificate is somehow not authentic.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Even if “width between shoulders” was a genuine structure of measurement baby Barack Obama’s is listed as “6 inches” and that is too large for a newborn baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have also been countless and innumerable supplementary speculations (reckless speculations) regarding the measurement which I wont waste time going into but, for example, there was one about “width between shoulder” being a measurement used only for animals and not for humans.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you may know, the doctor who delivered baby Barack Hussein Obama II was James Oyunga William Ang’awa.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Angawa<\/p>\n

Its should also be noted that Doctor Ang’awa lived in the same neighborhood, <\/span>Upper Hill<\/span><\/em>, in Nairobi with Barack Obama Sr. during the <\/span>mid-to-late 1960s<\/span><\/del> 1970s and up thru Obama Sr.’s death in 1982<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 (See<\/strong> Ogosia, Kenneth. “<\/a><\/span>You are forgiven, judge tells her father\u2019s killer.” <\/span><\/em><\/a>\u00a0 The Nation. <\/span>January 30, 2010.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In the year 1951, ten years before baby Barack Obama was born at the Coast Province General Hospital in Mombasa, Dr. Ang’awa published a paper entitled,<\/span> “RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS IN EAST AFRICA: A Note on its Incidence and Aetiology in Women of the Kikuyu Tribe.” \u00a0<\/span><\/em> A more detailed version of the <\/span>paper, known simply as <\/span>Rupture of the Uterus<\/span><\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0 was also published the East African Medical Journal the following year in 1952<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1951 paper, page 1030, Dr. Ang’awa discusses “Shoulder presentation<\/strong><\/em>” –<\/span><\/p>\n

“Group 2. Shoulder presentation; 8 cases. This group was subdivided as follows : (I) Spontaneous rupture with shoulder presentation. (“Neglected transverse.”) (2) Rupture discovered after obstetric manipulations in hospital. (3) Rupture discovered at autopsy, after obstetric manipulations in hospital.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It appears that Ang’awa’s paper attempted to determine factors and causes of <\/span>uterine rupture<\/span><\/em> and<\/span> ventured to draw conclusions of how and why the uterus is ruptured. All cases of ruptured uterus were divided into six (6) groups and some groups were subdivided.\u00a0 One group of the pregnant women consisted of those who exhibited signs of <\/span>‘Shoulder presentation’.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Moreover, the ‘Shoulder presentation’ group was subdivided into the following three (3) categories:<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Spontaneous rupture with shoulder presentation.\u00a0 (“Neglected transverse.”)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> \u00a0 <\/span>Rupture discovered after obstetric manipulations in hospital.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

3.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0 Rupture discovered at autopsy, after obstetric manipulations in hospital.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Shoulder presentation is a malpresentation of the fetus in which the shoulder, and sometimes the arm itself, is positioned towards the mother’s pelvic inlet of the birth canal.\u00a0 Typically an infant cannot, outside of a cesarean section being performed, be delivered in such a position (i.e., malpresentation).
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It is presumable and not unlikely that shoulder width measurements (i.e., ‘width between shoulders’) of newborn babies became common practice, if not routine, by doctors such as Ang’awa in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya in efforts to learn more about the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

A.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 ‘Shoulder presentation’ and factors, circumstances, and influence that contributes to the causes of.<\/span><\/p>\n

B.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘Rupture of the uterus’ (more commonly known as <\/span>“uterine rupture”<\/span><\/em>) and factors, circumstances, and influence that contributes to the causes of.
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C.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ‘Neglected transverse’ (more commonly known as <\/span>“Neglected transverse lie”<\/span><\/em>) and factors, circumstances, and influence that contributes to the causes of.
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1951. James Ang’awa. &quot;RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS IN EAST AFRICA: A Note on its Incidence and Aetiology in…<\/a> by Lucas Daniel Smith<\/a><\/p>\n