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!

CW: Premature Birth and the Struggles of it, The Potential of Baby Death (but none actually happens), A Brief bit of Anti-Semitism

Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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