I’ve noticed that this board has a lot of members who were born in the 1980’s, which would mean that many here were likely born during an era in which camcorders were widely available and commonly used to preserve historic family events.
Did your parents videotape your birth? Have you seen the video of your delivery??
Fortunately for me, my parents were too cheap to purchase a camcorder, but if they had done so I’m not sure if I’d want to watch a video of my birth. What is it like to watch such a video?
If the technology would have been available, I would have liked my birth to be videotaped.
I tried to video tape my kid’s birth, but by the time we found out our OB group didn’t allow it, it was too late (I changed OBs several times in the final trimester).
I’m 35 years old. If my birth would have been videotaped it would have been done with Grandpa’s 8mm camera. But seeing as Grandpa never was in the room when a child was born and wouldn’t dare let Grandma run the camera, there is no footage.
By the time my brother was born this would have been possible, I’m pretty sure (1984) but I don’t want to think about the fury that would have been unleashed if anybody had walked into the room when my mom was giving birth to either of us…well, actually, I find the thought highly entertaining.
It’d have been a good thing she was in a hospital, because whoever brought said camera would have been quickly admitted after she finished with them!
Lobelia Overhill, don’t feel bad. When the younger of my two brothers-in-law was born, they didn’t take a picture of him until he started school. He looked so much like his brother at the time, that the parents just recycled pictures of the older one and passed them off as the younger one.
My dad shot mine with an 8mm in 1974. If not the delivery itself then he started rolling shortly thereafter. I’ve never seen it as all of the various pieces-parts that are needed to play it back are scattered to the four corners of my Mom’s large and cluttered house.
Ditto. Nor do I care to see anyone else’s. My husband’s family is big into having 65 people in the delivery room, videotaping the birth, and then showing it at family gatherings. Just not my style.
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I took a photo of my son soon after he was born (and washed, and wrapped in a blanket), but that’s it. The idea of photographing or videotaping the infant as it gets pushed out of the mother’s vagina sounds gross.
Or, as the Dilbert cartoon goes, “I put a movie of my birth on the company server. You should hear what they call you at work, Mom!”
Seeing as my birth (1984) involved major crises and emergency surgery, I really wouldn’t want to see it. I have no desire to see my mother’s insides, thank you very much.
When I was presented to my mother after I was born, my mother screamed, “Eek, what is it!” Perhaps it is a good thing that I was born well before the advent of camcorders.
I was born in '78, my sister in '85. Neither of us had our births taped. The hospital staff DID take my first picture of me before I left the hospital, though-in black and white-damn, I was a chubby little baby.
However, it might have been interesting if they had taped my birth. According to my parents, as soon as my head cleared, I started screaming. No need to smack me.
