I dare you to watch after the ten minute mark.

Not going to get me to watch it after the zero second mark!

Someone needs to make a version of this with David Attenborough giving us the finer points of the illusive hippie birth.

not natural at all. yoga mats?

I can't watch. This is an over the line WTF event.

pretty nice, especially compared to the hospital births you get to watch usually in prenatal classes, with all kinds of drama and tests, and poking and prodding.

It's all well and good and natural and so on.... right up until the point where something goes wrong and you're in the middle of the woods.

There's a bloody good reason women give birth in hospitals.

Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> with all kinds of drama and tests, and poking and prodding.

In the western world, infant and maternal mortality has plummeted thanks to improved hygiene and good medical care, but these days there is a big emphasis on offering choice to the woman. In the UK If the pregnancy is deemed low risk then midwife only hospital delivery is offered as a basic right and the women can choose often choose pool birth, or home birth if they wish.
The latest NICE guidelines even go so far as to say that a woman should be able to ask for a c-section even if not medically indicated.
If the woman opts for something like opiate pain relief or an epideural then of course it becomes more medicalised but again it's a choice.

When you are on your second or third child, it often just pops out with little fuss where as the first baby is much more of an unknown. I'd be a lot less worried about a lady like this who has had 3 normal deliveries which i assume were uncomplicated.

The only think i'd say here is that babies get cold very quickly and so should be dried quickly rather than doused in brook water.