Inventor takes inspiration from a cork-screw to develop a better way to give birth

Daily Mail UK Online ^ | 15NOV2013 | Emma Innes

[Jack Hydrazine]

An Argentinian car mechanic has invented a potentially life-saving device that could be used to help deliver babies when complications occur during labour.

Jorge Odón, 59, designed the instrument which could be safer than forceps, a ventouse, or a Caesarean section, in a non-hospital setting.

The Odón Device uses a polyethylene sleeve, fixed around the baby's head, to pull the child down the birth canal.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The NY Slimes also has the story about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/health/new-tool-to-ease-difficult-births-a-plastic-bag.html?_r=0

[Redcitizen]

Will it work on these guys?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Which guys?

[Vendome]

Seems like it would smother the kid..../s

[Jack Hydrazine]

Considering that babies don’t breathe until they are outside the womb I doubt that would happen.

[Political Junkie Too]

Inventor takes inspiration from a cork-screw...

Screwed at conception AND at birth?

-PJ

[Jack Hydrazine]

ROFLMAO!!! Never thought about it THAT way!

[cableguymn]

Screwed at conception AND at birth?

-PJ

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And the rest of their life.. thanks Obama!!!

[TigersEye]

OK, who thinks Tiller the Killer’s girlfriend, Cruella Sebelius, will approve this baby saving device for use in the U.S.?

[Vendome]

“/s” was appropriate then...

[Carriage Hill]

No harm to the babies’ neck or head? Those areas aren’t very strong at birth, for ‘pulling’. Just wondering...

[JSteff]

Uh, what do you think a doctor or midwife does? Anyway, from the way this sounds it is less pulling than guiding. I had a friend who had a tooth removed with NO DRILLING. He said thay just worked the tooth around in the gum, used a tool called a foreps (?) and a half hour later it was done and he had very minimal pain after and the next day it was achy but felt fine.
He said they worked the tooth around and just quided it out of the gum after they worked around in his gum.

http://www.physicsforceps.com/extraction-gallery.html

Pretty cool but not many exodondists are trained on it or use it. Hopefully the baby thing looks even easier to do/use.

[Patriot Babe]

and we continue to be screwed between Birth and Death by our government. So there isn’t that much of a change.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I was wondering the same thing.

[Carriage Hill]

I have no idea what a dr or midwife does; never seen a live birth. Do all babies come out head first, or do some come out feet first? I thought the mother’s contractions pushed the baby out, pretty much most of the way. I was just commenting that the delicate head-neck area probably can’t have too much pulling on it before it’s damaged.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’m sure you can find some on YouTube.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ll have a look around; thanks Jack.

BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to you & your Family!