sans surgical intervention , with a transverse lie , a midwife had four alternatives : let the woman die after days of agonizing labor ; let the woman die after doing a cesarean section without benefit of anesthesia or asepsis-but possibly save the baby ; possibly save the mother by killing the child in the womb and then removing it in bits ( daniel rawlings had had several pages in his book-illustrated-describing this procedure ) , or attempting an internal version , trying to turn the baby into a position in which it might be delivered .