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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki

Posted by samzenpus on from the 9cm-edited dept.

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

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  1. The Yahoo answers version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    how is babby delivered?

    1. Re:The Yahoo answers version by bmecoli · · Score: 5, Funny

      how girl get labor?

  2. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it a boy or a girl?

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  3. A geeks geek... by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.

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  4. I'm inclined to suspect... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That, if all the medical training that daddy received was a few minutes on Google, and things didn't go badly, the real headline ought to be: "Mother ejects baby in uncomplicated delivery"

    The survival rates for childbirth without medical support are lousy enough to make medical support a generally good idea; but it isn't as though humans are exempt from the general mammalian ability to deliver live young without dying.

    1. Re:I'm inclined to suspect... by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      the real headline ought to be: "Mother ejects baby in uncomplicated delivery"

      What on earth has the mother got to do with it???

    2. Re:I'm inclined to suspect... by pwfffff · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah I'd like to hear the stork's side of all this.

    3. Re:I'm inclined to suspect... by moonbender · · Score: 5, Informative

      Bullshit. From fittingly/where-else Wikipedia:

      Determining the prevalence of miscarriage is difficult. Many miscarriages happen very early in the pregnancy, before a woman may know she is pregnant. Treatment of women with miscarriage at home means medical statistics on miscarriage miss many cases.[28] Prospective studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman's Last Menstrual Period).[29][30] Clinical miscarriages (those occurring after the sixth week LMP) occur in 8% of pregnancies.[30]

      The risk of miscarriage decreases sharply after the 10th week LMP, i.e. when the fetal stage begins.[31] The loss rate between 8.5 weeks LMP and birth is about two percent; loss is “virtually complete by the end of the embryonic period."[32]

      Likelihood of miscarriage drastically increases with the mother's age; the average age of mothers at childbirth has steadily increased in the past decades, although I was very surprised to see it's still at 25 in the US. So it's got fuck all to do with "bypassing natural selection".

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  5. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The most annoying bit is that Wikipedia has latched onto this... it had nothing to do with Wikipedia... but was in fact "WikiHow", completely independent.

  6. The information revolution has begun. by Fished · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For years I told people, "the information revolution has not yet begun." About six months ago, while eating breakfast at a little, podunk diner in a town of around 500 people, I got curious about what causes Tidal Locking. So, without thinking about it, I whipped out my iPhone and looked it up using Wikipanion.

    Then, I realized what I was doing. I, as someone who knows basically nothing about orbital mechanics, was sitting in a little diner on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and had access to more information than I could possibly use on an obscure, orbital-mechanical phenomenon. All on a whim. That's when I decided that "the information revolution has begun." It's not well-begun, it's not finished, it's not even fully taken shape yet. But it's begun.

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  7. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?

    Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...

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  8. Childbirth? by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's an app for that.