Quoting%20commentary for Niddah 84:16
בתר דנפק אמר רבא
against the possibility that the embryo might put its head out of the ante-chamber';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hul. 72a; and the midwife would then touch it when, having touched a corpse, her uncleanness would be Pentateuchal. Thus it follows that according to R. Oshaia the projection of the embryo's head without the ante-chamber is regarded as the actual birth. Similarly in the case under discussion, as soon as the embryo had put its head out of the ante-chamber its mother is subject to the uncleanness of birth as if the birth had taken place. ');"><sup>16</sup></span>
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