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Help yourself: Gene Cranch, left, a nurse-midwife at the Maternity Center Association (MCA) birth centre, helps Steve Oglesey and Debbie Melchionna check their unborn baby with their son Christopher
Help yourself: Gene Cranch, left, a nurse-midwife at the Maternity Center Association (MCA) birth centre, helps Steve Oglesey and Debbie Melchionna check their unborn baby with their son Christopher

Help yourself: Gene Cranch, left, a nurse-midwife at the Maternity Center Association (MCA) birth centre, helps Steve Oglesey and Debbie Melchionna check their unborn baby with their son Christopher

Date4/18/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Help yourself: Gene Cranch, left, a nurse-midwife at the Maternity Center Association (MCA) birth centre, helps Steve Oglesey and Debbie Melchionna check their unborn baby with their son Christopher.
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