cross-births

Women in mortal labour with cross-births have been brought there and laid on the grave from which she was taken, where we buried Rhisiart, and their children have been soothed into the world whole and perfect, with no harm to the mothers.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

That I was a girl presented a minor problem, since the majority of such cross-births are male and the offspring trained from childhood for government service.

Dread Companion Norton, Andre 1970

I am told that among the women of the Green Bay Indian Agency many deaths take place, and yet a physician states that he does not know of monstrosities or deformed pelves, but attributes the misfortune to malpositions; a greater number of half-breeds is to be found among them, and the resulting disparity between the child and its mother may be a cause of the trouble; again it may be the less active lives which they are supposed to lead, and the consequent cross-births.

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884