The Birth Simulator-Robot!
Warning: Graphic Simulation of a Super Creepy Robot Giving Birth to a Plastic Baby (That’s NOT Alive!) While Taped Screaming and Hollering and A Team of Too Many Nurses Stick Their Hands Up the Robots Wazoo, While Saying Push and Breathe and So On and So Forth! Seriously, You’ve been Warned! My Stomach Hurts Just From Watching It! Yikes!
Love,
Heather
This Musing is Related to this comic: The Prego-Robo 2000!
julie said,
May 2, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Well, Resussci Annie finally done got herself knocked up. Congratulations to her.
First I thought the cartoon was an exaggerated idea of the future.. but no it’s FUR REAL?! Kind of makes me… sick.
cookiemomster said,
May 2, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
I sat here watching the video with my mouth hanging open, I can NOT believe that. Did you notice the woman pushing down on “Noelle”’s stomach? They kind of pulled the baby out too, didn’t really wait for the shoulders to deliver on their own.
To look on the bright side though, did you notice at the end, when “mama” and “baby” were together, it looked like she was nursing.
wiffersnapper said,
May 2, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
Who got her pregnant? The Crash Dummy?
That is, quite simply, the scariest looking dummy I’ve ever seen. I would think that it would be far more useful (and probably cheaper) to just give the nurses extended training by having them attend actual births, with live women!
mamaof5 said,
May 3, 2008 @ 5:30 am
I had no idea that is how you got pregnant! Someone comes in during the night and just pops a baby right under your skin! LOL
She was nursing at the end… which is a bight side to the weirdness.
I guess as a nurse I don’t see it as so “weird” as we use simulators for all sorts of things (starting IV, packing wounds, putting in caths, etc). At least they will be ready when something happens… but it would be nice if they also used the robotmama for different real life none complicated births and different normal birth positions so they could learn other was to deliver babies ( like on hands and knees, standing up, squating, in the water, on the toilet, etc) instead of just the poor woman laying on her back.
Heather in Tucson
morganmcf said,
May 3, 2008 @ 7:19 am
Am I the only one who thinks that robot looks like an animate corpse?
typeogirl999 said,
May 3, 2008 @ 9:58 am
LOL about the daddy being the Crash Test Dummy.
But yeah, that’s just creepy as hell.
mom2brooke said,
May 3, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Love that 2 people have commented on the article that Mrs. Robot needs a midwife, and a waterbirth!
So true.
wiffersnapper said,
May 3, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Here’s a question- do they warn the nurses about what kind of complication they’re going to see? There’s a big difference between the reaction when you know you’re looking at, say, a prolapsed cord, and the reaction when it’s a surprise. And it’s not like people walk into the hospital saying, “Hi, I’m seven weeks away from expecting to have this baby, but I’m going to present footling breech in the morning.” (That would be me!)
frontierpsychiatrist said,
May 5, 2008 @ 8:37 am
… and I wonder what the nurses do when Noelle tells them to go away and leave her alone so she can give birth in a squatting position and no she doesn’t want the cord cut right away and she wants to hold her baby when it’s born and she doesn’t want the eye gunk or the shots (which I didn’t see them do anyway, but assume they would if it were a real baby).
frontierpsychiatrist said,
May 5, 2008 @ 8:39 am
“Am I the only one who thinks that robot looks like an animate corpse?”
No, lol that thing is creepy! Happy Halloween, nurses!
Has anyone see those “reborn” dolls? Those things look dead. I could throw a picture of my daughter (stillborn) in with them and I bet no one would bat an eye.
julie said,
May 5, 2008 @ 10:18 am
Anyone else find herself unconsciously crossing her legs really tight when she read the article or watched the video?
janaki said,
May 5, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Ah yes, complete with the mad rush to clamp and cut the chord and get that baby as far away from mother as possible!!!
Becci76 said,
May 7, 2008 @ 8:46 am
Do I dare watch being a month away from delivering my baby?