Midwife Pulls Off Stunning Baby Delivery in Parking Lot

[demmiblue]

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Midwives are awesome people/caregivers. And pretty badass, to boot.

[malaise]

1. Holy Shit all around

Damn!

[happybird]

2. That Mom is badass, also!

Best wishes to the new parents.

[tblue37]

3. I actually got all choked up from this video. nt

[MagickMuffin]

4. That baby girl was swimming outta that womb thang

Good thing Ms Midwife caught her. Yikes if BG would've hit the pavement!

I think her name should be Sw'emily!

[CurtEastPoint]

8. Sw'emily! GOOD ONE!

[a kennedy]

5. OMGAWD........and right midwife caught her.....whew.

Happy new baby happy couple.

[Kali]

6. dang, I would have at least needed to lean against the car

but anything is better than in a hospital bed on your back (at least to me)

I had both of mine at home with midwives, and stand-squat is way easier.

[vsrazdem]

7. Dang, it would sure be nice if they were all that easy.

[CTyankee]

9. There's a story to tell that kid!

Not sure of the logistics with mom's shorts but damn, what a way to have a baby!

[LudwigPastorius]

17. The kid'll have more than a story.

Her, or his, birth will be on the internet forever. I certainly hope the couple gave permission to whoever originally posted it online.

Call me old fashioned. I'm OK with some major milestones being available for everybody in the world to view...graduations, marriage ceremonies...

But, I draw the line at births and deaths. It's just kind of creepy, in a voyeuristic, Black Mirror kind of way.

[3catwoman3]

21. My first question - how did they manage that with the mom's...

...shorts still on? Dang!

[CTyankee]

27. Could the baby have been so slippery she slid right through the leg of the shorts?

[handmade34]

10. that brought tears to my eyes...

so awesome... I had all my babies at home and a good midwife is priceless... my midwife had cancer and died shortly after my last baby... very bittersweet

[LAS14]

11. Wo!!! nt

[aikoaiko]

12. I think we should GoFund Me that midwife a catcher's mitt.

Well done!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Midwives aren't called baby catchers for nothin'! . . . nt

[panader0]

14. My dad drove my mom to the hospital and by the time he parked the car I was born.

Very cool video. Strong mama, great midwife.

[hunter]

15. My wife does stuff like this.

I really didn't know what I was in for when we married.

She delivers babies.

She also stops at car accidents of the most gruesome sort.

My wife and I have both done triage, my wife the bloodiest kind.

Our children have stories. They have the academic powers but they ran away from medicine.

So did I.

I used to work with transplant people, the most awesome people in the world. I packaged living bits of dead people in coolers.

It haunts me.

My wife is never going to quit. Medicine is her calling.

She'll be there for the beginning and the end.

[FakeNoose]

16. Why didn't they come out with a wheelchair or a guerney?

This just floors me that the mom had to continue walking with her baby in her arms INTO THE CLINIC!

Is there nobody there to do the job that the midwife just did for them? This is equally amazing and horrible.

[shanti]

26. Right?

I couldn't believe that she could actually walk and kept waiting for a nurse with a wheelchair. After going thru labor, legs are usually like rubber.

[BittyJenkins]

18. I am a retired labor and delivery nurse.

I got to deliver a sweet baby girl in the hospital, it was so sweet. Her mom’s first babe was born in the Disneyland parking lot. It is always a miracle.

[mysteryowl]

19. Re-title the video: MOTHER Pulls Off Stunning Baby Delivery!!

[elleng]

20. WOW!

Tomorrow is my granddaughter's first birthday! Her birth did not happen quite like this one, they/we were inside the hospital! (Mom's/my daughter's name is Julie, baby Isabella.)

[tiptonic]

22. Reminds me

Reminds me of my wife. Good breeding stock. 3 all natural, healthy babies. Notice the mask on the hubby. Good people all around. Bet they are Democratics.

[demmiblue]

23. Good breeding stock?!

Go away.

[Duppers]

24. Wow! That was easy!

Don't understand how she could keep her pants on.

I had to spread wide on a table for my 9lb 8oz kiddo to pop out. (He was a big, long baby & I'm a little gal, so feel sorry for me.
)

[AwakeAtLast]

29. Don't worry, I do

My daughter was stubborn (still is). She was 7.12 and I was in labor for about 18 hrs. It was Pitocin or a C-section. I chose Pitocin.

Edit to add: and 21" long!

[Stuart G]

25. Everyone has a camera to take moving pictures...everywhere, and anywhere..with sound & color..

The most amazing 3min 46 seconds ever photographed...in a parking lot..

[rictofen]

28. The cops tried inserting themselves into the scene, gawked, and distracted the midwife

Nice that the birth went well, but the cop's behavior made me cringe the entire time. I'm sure they could've "helped" by giving the Rona to the new family.