 By the 1800s, midwives and doctors began using forceps, although with strong hesitation at first.In 1908, a Harvard-graduated OB/GYN, Franklin S. Newell, publicly recommended that forceps be used for upper-class women, who he considered too physically and emotionally weak to naturally deliver a baby.The use of tools and medication was highly encouraged for use in all deliveries by American physician Joseph Bolivar DeLee in the 1920s.