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Sensor Glove Visit - Operative Births Parents Group
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On the 6th of March 2023,
members of the operative Birth Parents group visited the
UCL lab at Charles Bell House in Goodge Street,
London.
The group came to see and discuss the development of the
new sensor glove that the team have been working on.
The new sensor glove will be used to examine birthing people in labour.
It has special sensors on the tip that will help the
birthing team to work out what position the baby's head is in
and which way it's looking.
This will help them to determine the safest way to deliver the baby.
Our group got to have a look at the way that it would work and to feel what
it would actually be like on their own hands
and to see how that might work in practise.
We're at the lab and offices here in central London,
and the group have had a fantastic opportunity.
We've met with the researchers and the clinicians
that have been making the sensor glove.
They've talked to us a bit about um about the glove and how they're going to use it,
but also about their own backgrounds and what's fueled their
interest and their desire to work in this area.
So it's been a really personal experience,
I think for us all.
Um,
we first sat around and we talked about our own birth experiences and reflect.
on how the sensor glove would have or could have impacted on those and
and just about the human aspect of this.
So I guess it's been really lovely bringing together that humanity and science,
um,
and for us all to be able to meet,
to talk,
to see that,
to go down into the lab and see where it's actually being made,
to hear about all sorts of engineering and science wonders
that for many of us would normally be so
so far out.
world of our understanding.
So I think it's really been an interesting experience for everyone
and most importantly,
as with all of our parents groups,
it's about making sure that
the people who have got lived experience of birth are there right
in the heart of how we create and innovate new technologies.
It's been so lovely having everyone here at UCL and been
lovely to meet people in person as opposed to on Zoom,
and it's been lovely to meet everyone together.
Yeah,
I think having having everyone this this kind
of viral collaboration of of all the different people
that are involved in making the sensory glove and for us to be able to see that
and then have people with lived experience of birth
kind of bringing it all together,
it's felt really magical.
So you guys have had
different people come in,
some midwives and obstetricians to.
the glove,
and this is the first time we've had obviously the parents group to come in.
Um,
why do you think,
why do you think that's helpful for you guys as a team,
having the parents and,
and having all those different aspects of info.
It's always useful working with parents because they offer a
completely different insight than what we would ever think of.
And also seeing
the,
the usefulness of how we can actually apply
this and how much it would benefit people,
um,
that's also really,
really helpful to see.
Um.
So what's interesting about being in here is actually like,
you know,
sometimes you watch movies and you see them
doing different things,
but
being actually here in the lab and
seeing the work it's actually done,
it's really mind blowing.
It's like surreal,
makes it real,
just like when you see the things and you're actually in the place where they make it,
it's just,
it's magic.
It's unbelievable really grateful to be here.
So am I.
It was fascinating to see actually how the sensory glow
is made,
all the details,
the background.
It's very different from what we see on the screen
at the meeting.
There's loads of
different um.
Different disciplines working together to make it and it's just,
it's amazing.
Yeah,
I find it also wonderful to see the collaboration between people who,
you know,
start off their studies in completely different disciplines as you say,
and then
to work towards that a common
objective,
um,
and then to come up with something that's so
like it's going to be so helpful.
And it was,
yeah,
and also very emotional
for us to go
back to think about our experiences of birth and
then to think how this can help in the future
to,
yeah,
the people who are going to give birth
and the babies and the moms.
And it's exciting like they are making it now here
and it's going to be hopefully uh something available all around the world,
uh,
that's thinking about it.
It,
it will change things.
It will change the birth experience hopefully for many people and that's just
amazing.
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