The invention that could save millions of babies during childbirth

Giving birth to a baby is just like popping a cork from a wine bottle, right?

We wish.

Actually, it could be exactly like that thanks to an amazing invention by Argentine mechanic Jorge Odon.

Meet the Odon Device. Hmmmm, what's with the name ... We can do better than that, right? The Baby Bottle Opener, the Baby Extractor?

Anyway...

Jorge Odon watched a YouTube video showing how to extract a lost cork from a bottle of wine. That night as he lay sleeping, an idea popped into his head. He woke his wife up to tell her. It was 4am. She told him he was crazy and went back to sleep.

The next day he told a friend who introduced him to an obstetrician who liked the idea and encouraged pursue the idea. Odon, 59, built the first prototype in his kitchen using a glass jar for the womb and his daughter's doll for the trapped baby. He used a fabric bag and a sleeve sewn by his wife and ta-da!

Here's how it works. The attendant slips a plastic bag inside a lubricated plastic sleeve around the head, it inflates to grip the head and then pulls the bag out until the baby emerges, safely and with no injury.

This device is so amazing that it has been endorsed by the World Health Organisation and major donors have contributed to it's production. US medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Co has just licensed it for production.

Millions of babies lives will be saved by the Odon device and the genius thinking of this amazing man. Doctors think it will save babies in poor countries and reduce the rate of caesareans around the world.

Mario Merialdi of the World Health Organisation told the Daily Mail: ''This is very exciting. ''This critical moment of life is one in which there's been very little advancement for years.''

Could you have been helped by this in your childbirth ? Would you have given it a go instead of an caesarean ?