Reactions To Babies Coming Out of Mommy's Tummies Draft #1

First off, GROSS!!!! That is definitely on my list of Nastiest Things I've Seen. Now that I have that out of the way I can begin discussing certain things I thought interesting.

In truth, humans are animals. We do a lot of things similar to them and childbirth was one of those things at one point in time. Until all the machines, video cameras, and doctors came into the picture. They took over the natural, peaceful, and beautiful time in a women's life and turned it into this lab experiment in which the women is the guinea pig. Watching these videos shows me the differences and similarities between a women giving birth and an animal giving birth.

The video of the giraffe giving birth was intense. We saw the giraffe walking around in what I'm guessing is an attempt to ease the pain. Humans are also told to do this once they arrive at the hospital because it helps them move along faster with the dialation process. The mother is just pacing around when the baby just plops out onto the floor. We see the fluid and all that released with the baby. She even starts to lick her baby in clean in contrast to a human mother who gives the baby up to the doctors so that she can recover. What I found more interesting is that just like a women giving birth in the hospital, a bunch of strangers were sitting there gawking at this event and then clapping when it came out. They sat there and videotaped something that it suppose to be private and secluded and turned it into this big event in which everyone should see just like a human birth.

Same thing happened with the dolphin. Only she was swimming around which can be seen as an equivalent to walking. I noticed that the fin of the baby came out first. In human births this is uncommon and is called a breech birth when it does happen. The head of the baby comes out first so it can have a fresh breath of air. The baby's first breath is also something that a baby dolphin and a human have in common. They must get that first breath in order to survive. I also noticed that the fluid comes out with the baby unlike in a human birth. In a human birth they must push out the amniotic sac after they are finished pushing the baby. Again I see that we are recording the marvelous moments of birth when that is not the way it was intended.