Reducing maternal mortality is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals.  The pregnancy device will give practice to midwives and health workers, and are aimed at  developing countries.

The 29-year-old designer Paulina Quinonez Gonzalez, made "MamaNatalie" while she worked at exchange at Laerdal Medical as part of a program called Design Without Borders. The exchange programme is a partnership between Norsk Form (Norway), Universidad Rafael Landivar (Guatemala) and Makerere University (Uganda).

Read more about the birth simulator in Washington Post