The birth of a child is one of the most wonderful, intimate moments in a woman's life. Would you capture this situation with the camera and upload the video to Youtube?
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No? We neither. But many women decide otherwise. In the meantime, posting the birth video has become a trend.
Not only does a birth give new life, it also brings a lot of pain with blood and other unpleasant things. If you decide to capture those one-of-a-kind hours or minutes on video, then it's only for yourself. For the American Gemma Vaughan it was different: She had the birth of her son filmed and shared the video on youtube. More than 16, 000 people have already clicked on the 39-minute video.
Is that too far?
What drives mothers to film their birth and make the video public for everyone? Are you looking for attention or attention? "I think it's great that so many people saw my video, " says the 25-year-old. She is a single parent and now has two sons. She has always been interested in childbirth and pregnancy. When she lost a child in 2010, she dealt a lot with the topic on youtube. "I thought: I can do what they can, " says the young mother.
And she is not the only one. If you enter the search term "birth" at youtube.com, you will immediately get 190, 000 videos, many of which are explicit birth videos . Although every mother has to decide for herself whether to make her birth public: we are concerned about so much staged attention for such an intimate moment between mother and child.
We deliberately decided not to show the video at this point. If you want to look it up, look for Gemma Vaughan and Birth on Youtube .
