🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Chainsaws Were Invented for Childbirth! (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Common room.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Boom, John, a man with common room.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
On the cutting room floor today?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Have you ever brandan been using a chainsaw on a
piece of wood or something? You like chainsaws, don't you?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
I do?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
And you're chopping down trees and stuff with them?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah? Have chopped a tree down? Chopped up? Would chop
to many things to chainsaw?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have ever done that? And while you're doing that, you think,
you know what? I could use this in surgery?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Ooh, what Texas chainsaw massacre style?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
What came first? Chopping down a tree or using a
chainsaw on a human? I'm speaking in circles, goog, I've
got some interesting information.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, the tree would be first, wouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The chainsaw was originally invented in the late eighteenth century
for medical purposes, specifically to assist in symphysiotomy, a surgical
procedure to widen the pelvis during childbirth. I know. The
earliest versions were hand cranked, looked like a modern serrated knife.

(01:10):
Over time, the concept was adapted for cutting wood, leading
to the development of modern chainsaws for forestry, et cetera.
But they it was originally designed to help women in
childbirth to widen the pelvis to help to help the
Childbirth is the easiest thing on earth, but so many
times the head would get where. You know, people say, oh,

(01:31):
people do this on the side of a mountain and
babies died. That's why we have interventions.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, you gave birth vaginally, didn't you to your children
when you.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Put it like that, ranked Yes, I didn't have a cesarean,
if that's what you're asking.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, do you remember much about it?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I was there at the time. Well, the first one.
Liam was taking a very very long time, and and
the day before I'd been to see the doctor, and
a couple of days before, and I thought, for some
reason I was fully dilated. They said, oh, you might
be fully dilated. Are you checked into the hospital. I
said no, I'm going back to work, And so I wasn't.

(02:10):
They'd made a mistake. So the next day when I
came to give birth and I was only four centiments
dilated after twelve hours, I said, oh my god. He
was me thinking I was a goddess that I was
fully dilated and hadn't felt it. So I had ab
be duralep and Liam came out. He's a vacuum pull

(02:31):
so he had a little head a little hat on.
He looked like Nefertiti. He was too scared to take
the hat off in case that was the shape of
his head.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's pretty much was.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
And then Jack sort of slipped out like a fish
very quickly.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh were you because the highways clear as they say, well.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Not necessarily, not necessarily, but that happened to you know.
I oftn't thought who were these people that would ever
give birth in a car park or on the side
of a road. I pretty much almost did with Jack.
I was on all fours in the car park.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Did you know since sixteen forty three, women largely have
been giving birth incorrectly or because of Louis the Fourteenth.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I mean incorrect So Louis the fourteenth.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Giving birth out of our ears?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, you know, women lie down and give birth on
their back. The proper way for a woman to give
birth is actually squatting down.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Let gravity help you.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
It opens up the birth canal.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
And also, as you say, gravity, King Louis the fourteenth,
when his wife was pregnant and about to give birth,
he wanted to witness his newborn son, next heir to
the throne, come into the world. He wanted to witness it.
He wanted to see it. Not only that, he got
all these mates around so they could watch the arrival

(03:45):
of this new heir.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So this lady is lying on her back, the queen, please,
the queen.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
She's got a modesty sheet that just covers up her
face and all the other pits. But all they could
see is vagine eggs and the baby, lovagine legs.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
The baby coming out.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And so that was the first time women lay down.
He started the trend, did it?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That has started the trend and online if you read
about it, it says King Louis. He father twenty two
children and also change the way women give birth.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Wow, the modern in the modern birthing suite, if you
want to line your back, great, if you want to
stand up, great, if you want to yell out the
window great. Whatever it takes to get that thing out
is accepted.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
But in that extraordinary imagine on the weekend, you and
your mates just sitting down having So.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know what i'd like to see, get the modesty
screen for a face. But you know what I'd like
to see.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's good to be the key.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah yeah, that's it board today Yeah yeah yeah, yeah,
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that's cutting room for

Speaker 3 (05:08):
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