Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births

[Hatha Sunahara]

An Argentine car mechanic saw this video on You Tube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1ovAYtKuQ

And invented a device to ease live births of babies stuck in the birth canal that looks like this:

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Here's a link to a NY Times article about this inventor and the device:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-difficult-births-a-plastic-bag.html?_r=1&

The World Health Organization is excited about this because they think it will save millions of babies in third world countries.


Hatha

[willie pete]

looks like it could very possibly cause head or neck trauma to me, actually there is a device that exists that's close to this; it's used in vacuum extraction births

[EE_]

The mechanic's first model didn't work as well

http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00HMrTZiNdwJqe/Skid-Resistant-Hydraulic-Gear-Puller.jpg

[Twisted Titan]

looks like it could very possibly cause head or neck trauma to me, actually there is a device that exists that's close to this; it's used in vacuum extraction births

Exactly


If women were allowed to give birth in the correct anotomical position ( which is one of squating were gravity and the pelvic cavity work in unity )

This would be non issue.


But we are very well established with how institutions. Perverts the natural order of things

[BrewTech]

Actually, this idea has been thought of before. Interestingly enough, the solution to this problem was to insert a stint behind the object and inflate it, then pulling to extract the object... hilarious episode (back when I used to watch TV)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9kYBoBCqSA

[Ponce]

Pete? I was thinking the same thing... a baby without a head would pop out..........

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[Hatha Sunahara]

This device is something that everyone is able to deploy effectively and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. It's only natural that the insurance/healthcare industry will ignore or marginalize it, or even try to make it illegal. Interesting that the WHO endorses it.


Hatha

[gunDriller]

would a Shopvac attachment be more gentle ?

[ximmy]

good god!

[Ares]

good god!

Just makes you want to go through child birth huh ximmy? Modern day barbarism..

[horseshoe3]

The head is always the hard part. Once the head gets through, the rest of the body has no trouble. That's why the OB can grab a kid with the salad tongs and pull with little risk of damage. This thing shouldn't be any more risky.