For me, birth is a private and intimate experience. But I guess everyone is comfortable with different things and if she wanted to mark the occassion by having an audience, good on her.
I'm not sure about accepting money for it though ... that seems a bit off.
Is she donating the money at all to a charity? Seems wrong commercialising something that I consider sacred but then thats just howI feel about birth.
Not something I would or could do, I know what I am like when I am in pain and lets just say no one is safe from a verbal shalacking if they dare speak to me BUT obviously she was comfortable with it - any indications of whether they were just random people or actually people she knew?
Still its not for me - what others do really isn't my place to judge.
The people were a paying audience as the birth was a 'performance'- they were strangers
To be honest I felt abit dirty when I first heard the story. Not because people were watching her give birth but because they were strangers...these people paid to watch. Now, I have watched women I don't know give birth- but that was part of my nursing training. What would motivate a stranger to pay to see some woman give birth?
And LOL @ NAeNae- I too would be worried about pulling my 'labor face' as DH calls it, which apparently is a cross between the "scream' mask and one of those clowns that you put the ball in its mouth
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BUT obviously she was comfortable with it - any indications of whether they were just random people or actually people she knew?
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