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