OOP either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that labor can take hours, and is completely unpredictable. There’s also the issue of finding a delivery room with space to accommodate five observers, in addition to the other people who absolutely need to be in the room.
This isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but the practicalities are significant.
They can watch video of live births at anytime without all the effort of coordination. There are countless videos of women giving birth if a video will suffice.
It is definitely a bad idea because such a trip, especially in an unpredictable setting like this, can turn upside down real quick and the last thing a woman giving birth needs is some guys freaking out and needing the personnels attention. If you really respect the act of giving birth you should minimize the risks of it going wrong (you could argue that theyre getting paid and its their choice to take the risk, but thats kind of like saying sex workers could do an other job if they dont enjoy it). The same goes for people who want to visit in the first few days after birth, just because theyre "so excited for the baby they cant wait to see it". Think of the woman who went through hell a few hours ago and probably feels like a truck hit her in the face right now. Leave her the f alone. If they invite you, cool.
Birth is pretty traumatic for babies to begin with.
You start off on this dark, warm room. Floating in a little bubble of fluid. All you've ever known.
Then all of a sudden the bubble is gone. It's slowly draining. Either it popped on its own, or worse, somebody poked it with a crochet hook (I know the real medical tool isn't a crochet hook but that's legit what it looks like).
You're squeezing headfirst through a hole smaller in size than a CD. And as soon as they see your smushy little skull they are putting a sticker on it to watch your heart rate.
It's bright, it's cold, it's dry, and it's loud. The complete polar opposite of everything you've ever known. You have to start breathing and then you can't stop or you die, but nobody tells you that right away. Someone slaps your butt and someone else cuts your blood tube to mom.
No wonder they come out screaming.
And that's a typical, uncomplicated birth. Let's not talk about suction cups or forceps or cesareans.
22 Comments
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 87 pts · 315d
OOP either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that labor can take hours, and is completely unpredictable. There’s also the issue of finding a delivery room with space to accommodate five observers, in addition to the other people who absolutely need to be in the room.
This isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but the practicalities are significant.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 315d
Set up a camera and run the video to a nearby viewing room
rainwall@piefed.social · 46 pts · 315d
They can watch video of live births at anytime without all the effort of coordination. There are countless videos of women giving birth if a video will suffice.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 315d
Damn your right, this kind of just ruined the post for me.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 315d
Don't mushroom trips also take hours?
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 315d
They are relatively short, they should do LSD just to be sure!
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 315d
Maybe 4 hours. LSD will last maybe 8 hours so perhaps a better(?) choice
Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 3 pts · 315d
Imagine 8 hours of toddlers watching a birth.
Furbag@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 315d
I think the mushroom trips feel like they take hours to the person taking it, but really hardly any time passes at all.
I wouldn't know. Haven't had a chance to do it yet.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 314d
It is definitely a bad idea because such a trip, especially in an unpredictable setting like this, can turn upside down real quick and the last thing a woman giving birth needs is some guys freaking out and needing the personnels attention. If you really respect the act of giving birth you should minimize the risks of it going wrong (you could argue that theyre getting paid and its their choice to take the risk, but thats kind of like saying sex workers could do an other job if they dont enjoy it). The same goes for people who want to visit in the first few days after birth, just because theyre "so excited for the baby they cant wait to see it". Think of the woman who went through hell a few hours ago and probably feels like a truck hit her in the face right now. Leave her the f alone. If they invite you, cool.
Source: became a dad a few days ago.
jade52@lemmy.ca · 64 pts · 315d
I cannot stress enough how traumatic this would be for everyone involved
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 315d
wdym, the baby wouldn't even notice /j
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 315d
Birth is pretty traumatic for babies to begin with.
You start off on this dark, warm room. Floating in a little bubble of fluid. All you've ever known.
Then all of a sudden the bubble is gone. It's slowly draining. Either it popped on its own, or worse, somebody poked it with a crochet hook (I know the real medical tool isn't a crochet hook but that's legit what it looks like).
You're squeezing headfirst through a hole smaller in size than a CD. And as soon as they see your smushy little skull they are putting a sticker on it to watch your heart rate.
It's bright, it's cold, it's dry, and it's loud. The complete polar opposite of everything you've ever known. You have to start breathing and then you can't stop or you die, but nobody tells you that right away. Someone slaps your butt and someone else cuts your blood tube to mom.
No wonder they come out screaming.
And that's a typical, uncomplicated birth. Let's not talk about suction cups or forceps or cesareans.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 315d
My daughter came out grey & floppy. It was (probably) only about a minute before she started crying, but man it felt like an eternity.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 33 pts · 315d
Never watched a splatter movie on shrooms, not sure if that's a good idea.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 315d
The difference is your option results in death, while theirs results in life.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 10 pts · 315d
Only if everything goes well and even then it can be very bloody.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d
Not a splatter movie, but Stalker was a hell of a movie on shrooms. 11/10 experience
VubDapple@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Stalker is just a great film, drugged or not.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
Still better than the Patience episode of Wondershowzen.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 315d
I watched the what we do in the shadows movie on mushrooms, wouldn't recommend. I don't like horror though so ymmv
ronigami@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
Women’s Tinder profiles in San Francisco be like