I'll give you a reason to install this in your own home instead of a birthing center; mom gets to use this one day every year or so, but the rest of the year, it's daddy's toy. A hot tub with autoflush for liquid and semi-solid waste in front of a big screen TV and a handy station for the wife/bartender/stripper to come and provide service - it all sounds like the ultimate upgrade to the entertainment room for football season!

weatherman

She's smiling? I thought during birth, the mother in pain bites the head off the husband in a fit of birthing rage...

StopTheLHC

Not only is she wearing a shirt... but are those KHAKIS? Someone's taking modesty a bit too far.

chanterella

I've never seen someone in Labor look so darn happy!

sam1am

Haha, Omaha beach. Sounds like a good idea.

eblingmis doesn't know why he chose his name

Why is she wearing a shirt in a hot tub?

unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw some other people do it

that was my favorite line of the whole episode. i was very happy to see it here. It's like the Globetrotter crossover episodes of scooby doo.

B.Zanetti

Woulda been nice to have been born in one of these. I was just yanked out in a c-section and the doctor slapped my butt.

Nintenboy01

As these pools get bigger and bigger, suddenly birth will be documented like the mighty orcas at sea world.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

seems a little excessive doesnt it?

redspectre

@sfokevin: Lol, it aint pretty dispite what they tell you.

Curves

EW!!! I don't want to know nothin about birthing no babies...

sfokevin

@StopTheLHC: Maybe it's a grimace. Or perhaps she's doing a dry run... er, make that a wet run!

LittleJon

Is that as in Ohama Bin Laden, or Barak Ohama?

LittleJon

@unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw s...: Good question. Long-ass screen names are the new "In" thing eh?

takashimiike yes really

Does it come with dolphins?

takashimiike yes really

@weatherman: That'll justify it's purchase!

PimPee

@unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw s...: Because pants would get in the way of the baby being born?

Doctor Who?

Anyone in here seen the movie "The Business of Being Born"?

+ Watch video

johnnyabnormal

@johnnyabnormal:

Yep, seen it and thought it was good, albeit of course with a very specific point of view.

I don't understand why we are talking about installing this thing in your home when it's obviously being marketed to hospitals. Homebirthers have birthing tubs that they can rent, or I guess buy, but it probably doesn't pay unless you are planning on having 10 babies in it before you're done!

dvdmon

@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...:
ahahahahaha... wow.

tehdahl

@Nintenboy01: They'd make some damn big omelettes...

Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude

What a crock of shit.

Mammoth

Sometimes I wonder if it would've been better if humans laid eggs.

Nintenboy01

@takashimiike yes really: Ha! I got that one!

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@tehdahl: That reply was supposed to be down below, at Nintenboy01's comment....

Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude

@redspectre: What's excessive is the amount of FUD and PAIN (it's hard to overemphasize this word) that surrounds the birthing experience in many societies around the world, especially in the US. Anything that comes out that helps women regain the control that should never have been taken from them and to help them through what should be a wonderful experience is wonderful, amazing, and needs to happen as fast as physically possible.

ProctorEpopeus

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): Finally!

takashimiike yes really

My wife is all about water births. She'd go crazy for this!

mykalt45

@Mammoth: That's even better when said aloud, right next to the pool while the birthin's occurrin'.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

I never heard anyone say someone "is all about water births" as if saying someone "is all about ska music". interesting...

nystreetfilms

@92BuickLeSabre: From this day forth, you shall be known as Guppy Sapien.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

@altus...if the baby starts coming of out your nose, however, this will not work at all.

92BuickLeSabre

It is actually great if you have a normal delivery. Nowadays it's less people because or our sedentary life-style. But if you are very active, the water birth thing will make it a breeze away from the "business of being born". But, be warned, everything has to line up perfectly.

altus

@nystreetfilms: Then you're missing out. I'm all "water birth"in' out at least once a week.

92BuickLeSabre

@92BuickLeSabre: Yeah. Talk about painful. Except for those people who have giant noses... I think its a bit easier for them.

SomeoneUKno

@redspectre: I bet it looks like Freddy Kruger's hot tub when its all said and done.

winmac

@SomeoneUKno: Well this schnozztastic fella respectfully disagrees.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

@Nintenboy01:havent seen the movie..but what a load.
"dont what women hanging out in the maternity ward" hell no they don't. They dont want to be there either after a few hours of labor. And everyone wants them home with baby.
Pitocin: yes, it will cause you to birth. Want to wait around, contracting for who knows how long, risk infection, or have a baby?
"everwhere else in the world"..yep, like third world countries. They also don't eat a lot and don't get prenatal care. Guess we should do that too.

C-section not doctor friendly IMO. Higher risk than vaginal. And if something happens, and the C/S was not indicated...guess who's f'd in the b.

took away the power of birth? Sure go have one by yourself..but don't forget emergency help will be 30 minutes away if the doo doo hits the fan. You can bleed out pretty fast. Labor will be longer. No epidural. Sounds like fun.

I love how the trailer makes it seem like docs just screw it up and rush it to make a buck, but I bet it doesnt mention what happens when you get a midwife who ignores pre-eclampsia, mother never goes to hospital, ends up eclamptic, seizing, coming to OBER, then mom and baby die cause its too late. Which really happened btw.

redkamel

hmmm so how does a heavily pregnant woman get into that thing? and how does a woman who has just given birth get out?

dosthebos2

@nystreetfilms: That's because you live in the USA.

johnnyabnormal

@dosthebos2: They have arms and legs.

johnnyabnormal

@redkamel:
"havent seen the movie..but what a load."

Damn, that's a pretty quick way to say, "Hey, I'm ignorant and will criticize something without knowing what I'm talking about."

The numbers don't lie: The USA has the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world.

""everwhere else in the world"..yep, like third world countries."

More like, most of Europe and the rest of the industrialized world.

"C-section not doctor friendly IMO. Higher risk than vaginal."

"Doctor friendly" = quick, not safe...but then again, you haven't seen the movie, duh.

"I bet it doesn't mention what happens when you get a midwife who ignores pre-eclampsia, mother never goes to hospital"

Well, if you weren't an idiot talking about a movie you've never seen, you'd know that the director of said movie wanted a home birth, but had a premature birth and ended up delivering in a hospital (thanks to the skilled assessment and actions of a great mid wife, I might add) and everything turned out great.

So basically, you should STFU about your idiot commentary if you haven't seen what you're spouting off about. Or, maybe I'm not being fair... Maybe your anti-home birth diatribe is just a result of your on mom dropping you on your head at the hospital. I shouldn't be so harsh on the mentally handicapped. I apologize, Simple Jack.

johnnyabnormal

@dosthebos2: Just like you'd guess: By stepping onto a little step-stool with someone spotting her on each side. There are also submerged steps on the inside of the tub. My wife had ours this way, though it wasn't exactly planned. She intended on using the hot tub to "relax" (as much as one can relax during labor) but then things started happening.

How did she get out? Stop reading now if this sort of thing grosses you out. Just like she got in, but in reverse and more carefully because she was holding the baby in her arms, and the umbilical cord still connected the baby to the placenta, which was still, um, inside. She walked 10 feet to the bed, where she climbed in and the placenta expelled and cord cut and everyone cleaned up.

I don't want to turn this into a commercial for the natural birth movement, but it was a very good thing for my wife.

flavorflav

@dvdmon: By "specific point of view"...do you mean the director's point of view, or the other subjects who gave birth? I thought it actually gave an equal voice to broad cross-section of the medical community in regard to the topic.

BTW, Very true about the application of this specific device. I can't imagine someone personally buying this unless they were a hard core breeder. :)

johnnyabnormal

Humans... silly creatures

BigViper

Looks like the 'scubbing bubbles' got their work cut out for them with this tub!

Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder

@Curves: I'm pretty sure no one has ever told me it was pretty, haha. I've seen the discovery channel birth videos...definitely doesn't look like it does on tv where a 3 month old, perfectly clean kid pops out.

GTgeek

@johnnyabnormal:
Bravo. A tear in my eye.

DarkHavoc99

I don't care how comfortable that thing is, any woman giving birth still isn't going to have a smile on her face (look at the picture closely, it's hilarious).

HageNuttz

@johnnyabnormal: Hadn't seen that, and I'm not sure I'm going to (just not incredibly relevant for me at the moment) but I appreciate the suggestion. Certainly the implication that the medical system is inclined to induce labor and perform c-sections as a matter of convenience resonates with me.

weatherman

@weatherman: I had no idea about this until a friend of mine told me about the movie before he and his wife had a home birth. It's not just the domino effect of drugs that women are given in hospitals (sometimes without their consent) but the body position they put mothers into is unnatural as well. I think any mother/couple should really research both methods and know their options.

johnnyabnormal

@johnnyabnormal: I'm sure the Duggans already have theirs on back order!

FiveLiters

@unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw s...: Cuz this isn't (pregnant) Girls Gone Wild,that's why!

FiveLiters

@johnnyabnormal: most heavily pregnant women can hardly walk then alone use steps. i worked in a maternity ward and we had a step in spa bath similiar to this, most women who somehow managed to get in could not get out without the nurses hurting their backs trying to help them out.

dosthebos2

Psssh...whatever...my wife and I just used one of those blow up pools from Wal-mart.

LunchBox55

@dosthebos2: Sounds like the mother was obese or the nurses need to start lifting weights. :)

johnnyabnormal