Birth for Tech Geeks: Wired Covers Childbirth Simulators
July 20, 2007
We’ve touched on childbirth simulators such as Noelle before, but coverage of this topic has turned up in an unexpected place – Wired, which now includes a Med-Tech section. Click through Wired’s slideshow on the topic, which includes both the modern plastic techy versions and cloth versions from the 1700s created by French midwife Madame du Coudray.
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This is old technology (at least in concept). Madame du Coudray had invented a birthing machine (complete with blood releasing sponges) for training midwives and surgeons back in the 18c (see Nina Rattner Gelbart’s “The King’s Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray”.) The only one known to have survived is in the Musee Flaubert in Rouen.
Yes, du Coudray is mentioned in both the post and the linked slideshow – a finding tool for the book in libraries is linked under her name above.