Opportunity to see and videotape a birth

I know someone whose 18 year old wife is pregnant and due to give birth at a hospital in a few days (May 15). He is into medfet and has offered to allow somebody to videotape the birth. I would normally jump at this opportunity since I enjoy all the medfet aspects of birth (vaginal and rectal exams, enemas, injections, stirrups, pain, exposure, instruments etc). Unfortunately for me, he and his wife live in Belgium and I live on the other side of the Atlantic. If you are interested (or know someone who is), please send me a message or reply to this post as soon as possible. I'm not a member of UKGyn but if someone here would like to post this message there, then we could give UKGyn members the chance to respond as well.

I hope someone videos the birth and all goes ok for the couple

DANTESIM

If this is the couple I'm thinking of... The have been regularly posting nude pics throughout the pregnancy and I think even before she was preg there were some pics floating about..

I think the woman is quite OK with the whole thing.

Sorry, I know everyone is different, and we're all entitled to our different "things", but the last thing I can imagine is having a perfect stranger filming the birth of my child. I'm no prude, and I never have been but when I gave birth, it was a circus and I hated it. My mother offered to be there and I refused, I didn't particularly care if my husband was there or not, by the end of the day I could have cheerfully shot my doctor and hysterical student nurses who are "shadowing" should be banned from the labor and delivery suite.

The birth of a child is no place for exhibitionism, medfet or not, and I can almost guarantee that if this young woman is indeed a full participant, she will regret it later. Frankly, I have a hard time imagining a doctor allowing this, although I do understand that things are different now, and that other cultures have different attitudes about this.

That's all I have!

LadyDoc

I'm going to agree with ladydoc on this one! I don't think labor and delivery should be filmed to be paraded about public. As stated before, many things can go wrong with labor and delivery. I, myself, had to have a c-section with my first after 19 hours of very painful labor - which I would have NOT wanted filmed! I will be having another c-section with number 2. It's my opinion that those moments should be between and only between husband and wife!

Talking about different cultures, let me tell you how it works here at south of the Equator....

In my country, it's very common for couples to want to registry birth in video. Most of the best hospitals have their own professionals for that, and of course it's done only if there's an informed consent signed.They are professionals;they never go into the room before the patient is totally covered, anesthesia done and catheterizing as well ( if it's the case), they only record the baby, avoiding to record women's genitals, and then they edit the video to make it ready and appropriate to be seen by all family. They put on music, the names of parents and doctor, and so on.It's all done with the biggest respect to the mother and the child.

They do live transmition of the birth to a TV intern circuit, so that the family can watch it during the birth, if they want.

They are trained to avoid bad images, and they know when it's to stop transmition, if anything goes wrong.

It's a great work, and a great gift for the child when he grows up....When my children were born it wasn't possible to have this done, I only have pics taken by my husband, and as he was a little nervous, you can picture how good they are...LOL. I wish I could have some professional ones now.

Nina, from Brazil.

Here's my 2 cents worth. I absolutely HATE it when someone is filming a delivery. Sometimes we have to make decisions on our feet and having a video camera in your face makes it difficult to think clearly. I understand the desire to capture special moments on video, but as a woman I would not want my nether-regions on video for the world to see. I have seen dads video right after the birth, and I can absolutely understand that but why do you need video of a head coming out of a vagina with much screaming and commotion going on in the background?

I have never personally stopped someone from filming, but if I were to find out this question was the case, where a med-fet had a stranger filming, I would probably say something. Birth is a miracle and an amazing thing, people need to step out from behind the lens and actually experience it.

Janet

I can only speak for myself when I say that I would not like to see a video of my own birth and see how much pain I caused my mother. Nor would I have wanted to have any of my deliveries taped. They say you forget the pain and for the most part that is true. I remember the good part and woulnt want a video to remind me of the demon I became for a brief while. But hey to each his own.

It's hardly surprising that the majority of women do not want to be filmed while giving birth, especially if the filming is explicit. But there is a minority of women who do want to be filmed. A simple search on Youtube and elsewhere on the internet reveals hundreds of videos and pictures of births, many very explicit, posted by mothers and fathers. And on the TLC cable network, there is a pregnancy and birth series, A Baby Story which, although not explicit, contains lots of screaming, grunting, stirrups and other delivery room scenes in all their gory detail. TV viewers were spared the explicit views but obviously the entire film crew got to see everything. I remember reading once that there was a long waiting list of mothers to appear on A Baby Story. So it seems that there is a small but significant minority of mothers who feel the need to share their births with the world.

I'm with Janet. Since we do have to think on our feet and sometimes we are less composed than we should be I don't ever want to be filmed doing anything. I might make the exception for a perfect takeoff on a wave but who knows?

My daughter asked me to film her deliveries on VHS tape. With the first one, I thought I was to film the party aspects and some of her laboring struggles. But when the Obstetrician came in, she asked that I get behind the doctor and record the details. When the pieziotomy suddenly started I hollered out for the Doctor to stop! I nearly fainted, and had to lean back against the wall.

My daughter asked me to film her deliveries on VHS tape. With the first one, I thought I was to film the party aspects and some of her laboring struggles. But when the Obstetrician came in, she asked that I get behind the doctor and record the details. When the pieziotomy suddenly started I hollered out for the Doctor to stop! I nearly fainted, and had to lean back against the wall.

It's a good thing you weren't the one giving birth! 😃

Ladydocsin, you need to remember the doc is a a birth at your explicit consent and in most civilized countries could only bar his recognizable representation . Your doc is not God although they may think they are. You might have more difficulties from hospital policy or Admin. Your delivery, your medical record!