Giving birth in hot tubs = not cool. I Stumbled upon a birthing stories website yesterday and was horrified to find pictures of a lady in a bathing suit delivering a child in her patio hot tub. Her husband and daughters looked on while she pulled her one-piece aside and pushed out a baby. Later she wrapped herself in a bathrobe and went to take a shower.
Hot tubs are for drinking beer out of cans and making out, NOT for soaking in afterbirth. I’d link you to the website but I don’t want to offend the mother. Plus she’d know immediately that I am less of a woman than she is. Babies are cute and they make me laugh and cause my uterus to flutter, but the second I start thinking about birthing one of them they all start looking like slippery little ogres.
I also saw a scary video yesterday of a puppy who thrashes to death metal music. That video and the hot tub birthing pictures combined to ruin my night. I was looking forward to relaxing under the spa jets with my puppy in one arm and my newborn baby in the other, and suddenly all I could see was blood and teeth.
13/03/2008 at 12:10 pm Permalink
that puppy is scary… those teeth!
13/03/2008 at 1:17 pm Permalink
I’ve heard that waterbirth is a pretty cool thing, but the usual way is to rent a special pool designed specifically for that purpose. (i.e. not filled with bacteria-laden, highly chlorinated nasty water.) The hot tub birth you described sounds pretty yucky.
13/03/2008 at 5:36 pm Permalink
Christos, you are not a lady reader! You should never have seen that puppy!
Patience, the hot tub birth looked yucky too. I bet they conceived that baby in the same water.