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A Midwife's Guide to the Birth of a Baby

Mock midwives helped advance the use of forceps with some designs. The manikin had legs and feet, and it would have shoes and stockings on it. An anatomist called robert campbell said he could scarcely tell the difference between the machine and a real, live woman. There's one in france called the b npinard model, and that was kind of similar. They've all disappeared and we don't know where they are. Men were seen as controversial when they started practising - er men weren't allowed into the midwifery game.

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