The nurse, trained in obstetrics, could have delivered this baby. But this was yet another thing women weren’t allowed to do, because that meant earning money that otherwise would have gone to the doctor. If Rose’s nurse were to deliver Rose’s baby, then Frederick Good, the otherwise-occupied obstetrician, would not be able to bill Joe Kennedy his standard $125 fee. And so this capable nurse, upon seeing the baby crown, felt no other option but to put her palm on that tiny head and shove the baby back inside, holding her there for two hours.
