Forceps and vacuum deliveries are relatively rare, occurring in just 3% of vaginal births. In these “assisted” deliveries, your healthcare practitioner uses either a vacuum device or forceps to help ...

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Many pregnant women are able to deliver their babies in the hospital normally and without medical assistance. This is called spontaneous vaginal childbirth. However, there are some situations in which ...

One of the best free diversions in London is the Wellcome Collection, the medical museum operated by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the posthumous generosity of Sir Henry Wellcome, the American ...

Obstetric forceps look like ninja weapons. They come as a pair: 16 inches of solid steel for each hand with curved "blades" that taper into a set of molded grips. Designed for emergencies that require ...

I’m told I was an ugly baby. My mum cried in hospital because my head was so misshapen with my eyes off at a strange angle; the midwife who comforted her by saying I didn’t look “that bad” didn’t ...

In recent years, doctors have preferred to perform a cesarean section instead of trying a forceps or vacuum birth, due to the fear of causing a baby neurological damage and/or physical injuries.

A newborn boy is dead after suffering a brain hemorrhage during a bungled forceps delivery. Tiny Frederick Terry also sustained a fractured skull and scalp laceration according to the coroner’s report ...

Finley May, pictured shortly after his birth, died later from a spinal cord injury caused by forceps used to deliver him A baby boy died from injuries caused by forceps used during his delivery, a ...

Obstetric forceps look like ninja weapons. They come as a pair: 16 inches of solid steel for each hand with curved “blades” that taper into a set of molded grips. Designed for emergencies that require ...