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YouTube, The Midwife

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LONDON  It was 2:30 in the morning, and Marc and Jo Stephens were at home in Redruth, Cornwall, when Ms. Stephens realized that their fourth child was about to be born, three weeks early.

Ms. Stephens’s history of speedy births meant that there was no way they were going to make it to the hospital on time, her husband said Friday, according to the Press Association news service. Mr. Stephens called a midwife, who said she was too busy at the hospital to come to their house.

The next thing Mr. Stephens knew, his wife was on all fours, the baby’s head was showing and events were moving inexorably along. Rather than having a panic attack, grabbing a large bottle of gin or running screaming into the street, Mr. Stephens, a 28-year-old navy engineer, applied the lessons he had learned earlier in the evening when, after his wife began labor, he typed “how to deliver a baby†into the Google search engine on his computer.

“I watched a couple of clips on YouTube,†Mr. Stephens said.

He did not elaborate on what exactly he had discovered or which clips he had seen. But among the videos that appear when those words are entered are one in which a preternaturally calm woman who says she is a “certified professional midwife†uses a doll and a fake vagina to demonstrate how to deliver a baby in a taxi, including the part where you are meant to “place the baby on the mom,†the mom in this case being a limbless plastic torso.

There is also a short 1966 film, “Sudden Birth,†apparently made as a training video for police officers in Berkeley, Calif. It uses unintentionally humorous wooden actors and then shockingly graphic scenes of a real birth in a car to show what happened when some officers, answering reports of “a suspicious auto†parked by the road, ended up delivering the passenger’s baby. (“Keep calm!†the instructor keeps intoning. He also instructs the officers not to “hurry the birth by pulling on the baby†and warns that babies are “slippery.â€Â)

In any case, Mr. Stephens figured it out, the British news media reported, and helped his wife bring their new son, Gabriel, into the world on that March morning. An ambulance, which arrived later, took the couple, their baby and their three daughters to a nearby hospital in Truro. They returned home several hours later.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/healt ... ml?_r=1&hp
 
Do you all think that, this could be a good thing ? Wow the internet, what will they think of next.
 
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