Oddly enough there is no centrifuge category I can find, so I just have to go bit al fresco.
The idea is self-obvious, for the more tricky deliveries a centrifuge is used to give more of a push. Admittedly the midwife will have to be inside too.
Just in case, volunteer sports-persons with catcher mitts are deployed around the centrifuge.-- not_morrison_rm, Feb 13 2019 US 3,216,423 https://patents.goo...3A/en?oq=US3216423AApparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force. [xaviergisz, Feb 14 2019] Could be used with: https://www.youtube...watch?v=NcHdF1eHhgcThe machine that goes PING! [MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 14 2019] I think this is going to place an unacceptable burden on the already stretched finances of the NHS. You will inevitably get women wanting to combined advantages of a birthing pool and a centrifuge, requiring some sort of huge vortex tank.
However, most large hospitals are equipped with elevators, and it should only require a little modification to their controllers to allow them to produce several G, at least for a few moments.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 13 2019 Or just reconfigure the tire swing in the old oak tree, and spin it in a circle; volunteer back-catchers deployed more thickly where the trajectory would intersect the tree trunk.-- Sgt Teacup, Feb 13 2019 Ugh. I think I may have put up an idea here about an actually-intended-to-work pressing massager belt, under computer control, likely with ultrasound imager/sensors that could pulse the uterus from outside the body to safely cause more rapid birth and contractions (pressings) that were more effective but within a safe range.-- beanangel, Feb 13 2019 It might create a little problem if the placenta precedes the occupant. Talk about a head rush...-- tumblewit, Feb 13 2019 //Oddly enough there is no centrifuge category//
Sometimes the world makes no sense.-- bs0u0155, Feb 13 2019 So essentially a hospital funded fairground ride for women giving birth?
Well it might help take their minds of the pain I suppose & they surely deserve a bit of fun, last chance they'll have for any for a few years [+]-- Skewed, Feb 14 2019 //fairground ride for women giving birth// - this raises a vexing problem: Should the operator of the fairground ride charge the mother-to-be one fare or two?-- hippo, Feb 14 2019 Use electricity to make the pushy muscles more pushy?
Put a balloon in there behind the baby and inflate it?-- Voice, Feb 14 2019 [Voice]; that balloon idea is not entirely ridiculous. I think the "inflation" should be with a nice sterile saline solution, inserted via keyhole surgery on the left below the ribcage.-- neutrinos_shadow, Feb 14 2019 Hmm. I don't think there's really a need for a balloon - all that's needed is some method of generating a pressure gradient. This could be accomplished if hospitals were equipped with deeper birthing pools - say about 500m or so - and suitable heliox breathing apparatus. A rapid ascent at the right moment ought to achieve the desired effect.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 14 2019 random, halfbakery