If the Woman be straiter, or the Child larger, than ordinary, when she has brought the Infant into the _Passage_ somewhat short of the _Arm-pits_, she must, by introducing her Fingers, first over one _Shoulder_, cautiously bring down one _Arm_, and then in like Manner the _other_, and drawing the Child forward, she must make Use of both Hands to extricate the _Head_; the _Fingers_ of one Hand between the _Mother’s Back_ and _Child’s Jaws_, bearing and drawing them from the _Back-bone_, and with the Fingers of the other Hand over the _Shoulders_, and the _flat_ against the _Child’s Back_, draw it forth, the Mother as aforesaid assisting all the while. Writers advise putting two Fingers into the _Child’s Mouth_; but as great Injury has often been done that Way, it is much safer to bring the Child by _bearing_ with the Fingers against its _Jaws_. If an _Arm_ should be broke in _bringing down_, let it be spliced with thin Paste-board, and bound at its full Extent to preserve its right Shape. In fetching an Infant by _turning_, ’tis necessary to draw its _Feet_ into the _Passage_, with the _Toes situate_ towards the _Infant’s Belly_, for it may be extreamly difficult, if not impossible, to draw it backwards, contrary to the natural _Bent_ of its _Thighs_ and _Back_; and a _Limb_ may sometimes as easily be pull’d off, as the Child brought to the _Birth_ this Way; the Midwife must therefore make Use of the _right_, or _left_ Hand in doing it, which happens to be most convenient, to the natural _bending_ of the Infant’s Body. I THINK it cannot be safe for a Woman to _turn_ a Child upon ether Occasions requiring it; their Strength, as well as Skill being frequently inferior to the Task; besides, there may be great Danger of injuring the Vitals of the Mother in other Cases, especially after the Operation is unseasonably delay’d. As each Child has a Navel-string, as well as After-birth belonging to it (tho’ both _Placenta_’s are sometimes so joined as easily to be distinguished) the Care respecting the _Navel-string_, already related in the Sixth Chapter, must of Course be taken for the First-born, and its _Secundines_ left, ’till after the Birth of the Second, when both, if necessary, must be separated and brought away, as there advis’d, with Regard to one alone, and the _Navel-string_ of the last Infant tied after the same Manner as in the Birth of one Infant. CHAPTER XIV. _Of a_ Dead Child. A Dead Child is often born with abundantly more Difficulty than a _living_ one, for the last by its Struggles considerably promotes its own Birth; whereas, the first lies _immoveably_ in the _same_ Posture, without changing Situation by its own Activity.