Episode 52: Come one, Come all: Babies

CW: Premature Birth and the Struggles of it, The Potential of Baby Death (but none actually happens), A Brief bit of Anti-Semitism
Coney island, home of the Couney incubator. Pop your baby in and watch it grow! Who would have thought the land of hot dogs and sideshows would also be the lifeline for hundreds of premature babies? We touched briefly on the baby show in a previous episode, but our curiosity could not be resisted. The technology we use today in the NICU was once a sideshow showing people the strangest thing of all: babies!

This first link is an extensive look at Martin Couney and his whole incubator project from the first idea to the end of it.

This one is shorter than the last one but still contains most of the same information from the beginning of the incubator idea to the end of the sideshow. And this one contains different pictures and more quotes from people involved.

This is a great interview with one of the Coney Island Babies who was actually there with Couney!

This isn’t the only article that talks about how Martin Couney wasn’t a doctor, but this is an article that is pretty devoted to the topic.

For those that like videos, here’s one that features interviews with some of the Coney Island Babies!

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