(Dustin Chambers | The New York Times) Lee Blasingame, whose wife died in 2019 of internal bleeding, 15 hours after their second child’s birth by C-section, in Georgia on Nov. 1, 2025. Holly Baumstark’s placenta had fused with scar tissue left on her uterus from a previous cesarean surgery, the dangerous complication known as placenta accreta. As C-sections have become more common in recent decades, so has accreta.