What.The.E????

[CarolinaKat]

Dolphin Assisted Birth

blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/05/26/dolphin-assisted-birth-possibly-the-worst-idea-ever/#.U1_sl_ldXh4

The Sirius Institute, where the couple is headed, claims that a natural dolphin-assisted birth is completely safe. “Some of the reported occurrences include a mother and a baby playing with the dolphins within 45 minutes of the birth,” claims the site, “another instance of a free dolphin escorting a newborn human baby to the surface for its first breath.” They claim that wild dolphins will come into shallower pools, massaging the mother to help deliver the child, but they don’t have any evidence to back up these claims. When Penn and Teller talked to the institute, they found that none of the mothers which came to Sirius actually went through with the ocean birth. Somehow, I’m not surprised.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Good lord there really is a niche market for everything.

So what happens if you get the dolphin that doesn't want to be a doula and instead thinks your baby looks like a tasty fish?

[midjd]

Yes... as I was lying in the hospital bed, numb from the neck down and vomiting into a bedpan from the morphine, all I could think was "I wish there were some dolphins around right now!"

[CarolinaKat]

These people are flying to Hawaii to have this 'natural birth' experience. There's nothing natural about a human giving birth next to a dolphin.

If you read the article it's great at reminding everyone that sometimes dolphins 'play' with baby sharks or baby porpises to death. That's exactly what I want for my kid...

[yogiii]

I can not believe this is a real article!

[midjd]

I've seen enough videos of dolphins humping helpless trainers/spectators to be a little leery of that, too. 

ETA - I love this comment!

We have something like this in Canada. It's polar bear assisted birth. This might explain why Canada has 1/10th America's population.

[tloonya]

May 30, 2014 8:47:55 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Good lord there really is a niche market for everything.

So what happens if you get the dolphin that doesn't want to be a doula and instead thinks your baby looks like a tasty fish?

1. Then you try again in 9 month...
2. Try to have a baby with someone who doesn't look like fish.