Man uses YouTube to help deliver baby

When you've already used YouTube videos to learn to solve the Rubik's Cube and play the guitar, you might think that learning to do anything else would be fairly simple.

Delivering a baby, for example.

Marc Stephens, a naval engineer from Cornwall, England, and an afficionado of YouTube learning, thought it might be instructive or, who knows, fun, to check out the child-birthing thing on the site as his wife Jo was feeling a few tweaks in her innards.

So there he was at 10:30 p.m., watching where to put your hands, when to pull, how to twist. Oh, you surely don't expect me to watch one of these things, do you? I can tell you that one of the videos was called "How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab."

Well, this seems to be a child-birthing class. I wonder if there's a YouTube video.

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Anyway, four hours later, Jo went into labor.

They were planning on a home birth, but Marc called the hospital and asked for one of the actresses out of the YouTube movie. You know, the one who played the nurse.

No, in truth, there were no midwives available to come to the house, and Jo had a habit of laboring with efficient speed (they already had three children).

Indeed, she suddenly popped out of the bathroom, went down on all fours and was ready to go.

So, Marc thought: "OK. If I can move the yellow square to the left and those two blue squares to the right...no, wait, that's the Rubik's YouTube video."

Remarkably, he thought about the taxicab video and kept his head while he held the baby's.

"My youngest daughter woke up and was standing right behind me watching the whole thing!" he told the Telegraph.

To which Jo added: "I wasn't panicking at all. I have to say, out of all my four labors, that was the one I enjoyed the most."

I wasn't entirely aware this childbirth thing could be enjoyable.

Just as I wasn't entirely aware that YouTube was more than a place where you could see people putting their heads inside a balloon and then trying to blow it up.

[sdfwef_ewer]

what's so special about this? It's simply a natural extension of the fact that lots of people use YouTube to help make babies

[drivintin]

oh no, your mistaking YouTube with YouPorn for procreation ;)

[sdfwef_ewer]

What's special about this? It's just a natural consequence of the fact that lots of people use YouTube to help make babies.

[karpenterskids]

My dad delivered my little brother in the bathtub of my home.

My mom enjoyed that delivery the most out of all the ones she's had as well. :)

[Jack K1]

I understanding the author's difficulty in appreciating the "enjoyable" part of childbirth. In *his* experience, pushing and straining leads only to a smelly result.

[Iria00]

In fact, if you've ever been in a delivery room, the pushing and straining of the woman will in fact, push out, in addition to the baby, just what you are thinking of ...

[cardinal489]

Understandably, there's the stereotype that childbirth is painful. Indeed, for most cases it's painful, for extremely rare cases it's life-threatening for mother and child, and for some cases it's "enjoyable".

[ceciliya]

Some women are lucky enough to experience what they call, "orgasmic births" (videos also available on youtube). It's quite interesting actually, and not as dirty as it sounds.

[richardvahrman]

Maybe more interesting if he had had to carry out a C Section. Just in case, YouTube will come to answer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN48VnRYUY

[ashish_12]

He let his youngest daughter watch it? That is kinda cool, but also a bit weird, and maybe even slightly irresponsible.