06.30.2009 9:44 am
Would you put your childbirth video on YouTube?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Forget the Lamaze classes. Pregnant mommas can get an eyeful of education from YouTube. If you search for childbirth videos, you will see results including very graphic vaginal and Cesarean deliveries.
I could not imagine sharing such an intimate and private experience with millions of potential viewers, but maybe some of these ladies feel as though they are providing a public service. During our childbirth classes, we watched the movie at St. John’s, which looked like it had been filmed in 1970. It was a real eye-opener for me.
During my labor and delivery, I did not want a camera in the room. Really, it was enough to have my husband and mom in the room. For those who did shoot the video, would you ever consider posting it on YouTube?
Aisha covered education and breaking news for nearly ten years before joining the Lifestyle staff where she writes a "Dirty Laundry" parenting column. She is the home and family editor and wastes too much time on Facebook and political blogs. 
NO WAY!!! It was my husband, me, and necessary medical personnel and THAT’S IT! I didn’t even want my Mom in the room or even at the hospital for that matter. After going through childbirth and not knowing what to expect, I didn’t want visitors in my room 5 minutes later and me trying to put a smile on. I’m probably a little on the anal side with this, I realize, but to me, birth is a very private, personal thing that I only wanted to share with my spouse. And no, we didn’t tape it.
I didn’t shoot a video and don’t know why others would want to film the birth!
I would never do this - the pictures of our kids right after birth (cleaned up and swaddled) are embarrassing enough to teenagers. Can you imagine a teen finding his friend’s birth video online? I can see it getting passed around at school or what not. My kids are 17 and 14, so maybe I’m just too old to think this is good for anyone?
Check out this web site http://pregnancyvideos.googlepages.com
It has hundreds of homemade movies people have filmed of their births and uploaded to the internet. Most of them are pretty graphic. Birth at its most realistic, you might say.
Although filming isn’t for everyone, no one would get to see a birth movie before they go into labor if no one wanted to film themselves.