When reality star Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to her first child Mason, viewers saw it on TV. And when we say saw it, we do not mean saw Kourtney being stretchered off to the labour room. Fans of the show actually saw her delivering the baby.
While a lot of people thought it was weird that Kourtney wanted to share such an intimate moment with the world, others slammed the reality star for trying to gain publicity from it. But now it looks like Kourtney will not be the only one sharing the moment with others.
A Melbourne woman plans to give birth to her child live on Facebook. However, she isn't doing this for publicity but wants to show the world how "labour is nothing like the movies." Adele Barbaro, who is better known as blogger The Real Mumma, says that she knows it is a little bold, but she wants to share the experience with her followers.
"I know it's a little daring but when she decides it's time to vacate, I'm going to share the experience of my labour. PG of course! I want to show that labour is nothing like the movies and you can't plan for any of it!" she wrote on her blog. The mother of one further explained that by streaming the video, she also intends to help expecting mothers get an insight into what the whole process is like and even give an idea of the process to their partners.
Barbaro is currently in her third trimester and will welcome her second child in about seven weeks.
Speaking about what really helped her decide that she would stream her delivery online, Barbaro spoke about how unprepared she was when she gave birth to her first son Harvey and how terrible she felt when she as well as her husband Paul had no clue of what to expect and how to go about certain things.
"He [Paul] thought there would be a dramatic breaking of water, followed by a speedy drive to the hospital and hours of agony before a baby arrives. Because that's what Hollywood had taught him and the three-hour hospital course for first-time parents was certainly not enough to prepare him, or me for the event," she wrote on news.com.au.
While she is evidently excited about welcoming her second child and sharing the experience with others, she did clarify that she would stop the streaming if she or the baby were in danger or "the situation became unsafe."
Meanwhile, the first blogger to live-stream her labour and delivery was Sophie Cachia. She gave birth to her daughter earlier this year and put a video of it on Snapchat.
