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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: space whoopee and whoops...
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 10:31:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 10:31:59 1985
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> ...  What about delivery though?  The actual
> "labor" is aptly named since it is a muscular event, but what about the 
> time when the baby "drops".  ...it seems that it COULD involve gravity.
> Does anyone who knows any more about this have any ideas?
> 		art smith

It should be called "push/pull" these days.  The woman is flat on her back
and the baby is pulled out (forceps!) once she pushes it far enough.  I
would expect the amniotic fluid and other mess of that nature to be more
of a problem in a zero-g environment.  Perhaps a steady air flow drawing 
escaped fluids into a trap would be suitable.  Sometimes the neonate has
some fluid in the lungs that must be drained (hence the holding upside down
bit).  Perhaps a large, slow centrifuge could do the trick here ("No no!
I said 8 rpm, not 80!").
Nemo
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