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AlexanderIII

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Russian
Dear All,

He was about forty, but he looked younger and was still very handsome. Childbirth, especially Ricky’s breech, had ruined Mom’s looks.


The only way I can interpret the last phrase is that Ricky’s breech (bottom, hips) was (were) so big (wide) that giving birth to Ricky and especially to this part of his crippled Mom's health and beauty (in the broad sense of the word). What puzzles me is that a baby's head is the biggest (widest) part of its body. Of course the abovementioned phrase could be a metaphor. Probably I don't understand something.

Do you think my understanding is correct?
("Fifty Grand" by Adrian McKinty)
I believe that "Ricky's breech" is just short for "Ricky's breech birth" -- the way he entered the world.
Yes, you're right, Alexander: see breech birth
breech birth (also breech delivery)
▶noun
a delivery of a baby which is so positioned in the womb that the buttocks or feet are delivered first.
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