The birth of a trend: Posting childbirth videos online
Saturday, September 8, 2012 - 07:01
in Mathematics & Economics
More women push with the cameras rolling, as delivery videos become all the rage. Google "childbirth video," and hundreds of videos pop up, some with millions of views. "The Unassisted Birth of Jason Shawn II," a YouTube video which shows a woman grunting and shrieking in an inflatable pool before giving birth on her own, has 3.5 million views, with a lot of opinionated strangers weighing in on this intensely personal moment.