Dads are fully capable of delivering their own babes!

“When Leroy Smith’s pregnant wife started going into labor, the desperate dad didn’t turn to the doctors, but to Google.

Unsure of what do when his wife, Emma Smith, began having contractions at their home, and fearing that the midwife wouldn’t arrive in time, the dad-to-be grabbed his Blackberry and Googled “how to deliver a baby.”

Leroy, a security guard, followed the step-by-step instructions he found on wikiHow, and successfully delivered his and his wife’s baby girl, Mahalia Merita Angela Smith.

The Sun has the story in the dad’s own words. Leroy reports,

 

“I wasn’t sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry.

 

“I was very, very nervous. I never thought I’d actually have to do it.

 

“The BlackBerry told me that when I saw the head, I had to support it.

 

“And when the baby actually comes out, I had to place her on Emma’s chest, then covered them both with a blanket and make sure they were both comfortable and relaxed.”

 

 

Please note:

 

Those of us in the Unassisted Childbirth World do not consider the birth you just read about to be a Freebirth.  This was an unplanned Emergency Childbirth that took place at home.  And it was a good thing the Dad had his birth information from Google.

 

Had he tuned in to an Obstetric Web Site, he may have been told to pull out a pair of scissors or a knife and cut his wifes bottom to pieces to hurry the baby out so he could make some money with his fancy stitchery as he sewed her back up, and then he could rush the babe to a NICU where it would be certain to rack up gobs of money for the hospital with a bunch of needless tests while Mama gets sewed up and is not able to bond during the first important hour, thus assuring her of a nasty case of postpartum depression and difficulty breastfeeding.

 

Thank goodness for Google, where it appears common sense prevails…

The Paul and Jenny Hatch Family 2002 Seven Months pregnant with Benjamin

Canadian Home Birth Study Finds Home Birth As Safe or Safer Than Hospital Birth

By Jennifer Margulis

A study by Canadian researchers published in the September 2009 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) concludes that planned home births with a midwife in attendance have comparable or better outcomes than hospital births in British Columbia, a province of Canada with some 4.4 million inhabitants.

The researchers studied over 2,800 planned home births attended by the same group of registered midwives over a 4-year period.

They found that women who planned home births had lower rates of invasive and negative interventions than women who had planned hospital births, whether the hospital births were attended by a midwife or a doctor.