No. But a video of my conception would answer some questions for me.
Me, too! I have no information about or pictures of myself for the first several months of my life so this would be absolutely fascinating to me.
No, but only because my mother was in labor with me for 18 hours. I don’t gross out easily (and I’ve seen video of human birth, at least when the baby comes out), but I hardly want to watch 18 hours worth of someone in agony.
mrs beagledave and I talked about this very thing last week actually.
I videotaped the birth…long story, but mrs beagledave said it was “my call” on whether to tape or not. I had the camera with me but didnt know if I would really be taping the actual birth event (I was shooting some footage of the room etc to maybe use later). Taping the birth was certainly not a top priority.
As it turned out, my left hand held her right hand…while my right hand held the camera during delivery. It seemed “natural” and not distracting.
If you had asked me a year before the birth if I was going to video the birth, I would have laughed in your face…made the"eww" sound, and rolled my eyes.
However, sitting with me wife and infant daughter a day later, and watching her birth…was one of the most special moments of my life. My wife was very appreciative as well…because she really did want to see the birth (something kind of hard to do when you’re in the middle of it). She went the no drugs route, I don’t know if that influences whether she wanted to see the birth or not.
When we were talking about it last week… I guess we just felt we would play it by ear as to whether to show our daughter. Certainly if she says she wants to see it, I see no harm in showing her when she’s older. Does the gender of the child matter? If you’re a girl would you be more/less inclined to appreciate seeing the birth?
Yes. I’m always fascinated to see myself on video, and the idea of witnessing my first minutes of life on this earth appeals to me.
However, I’d probably be unfairly critical of my appearance and behavior. Not because of all the blood, as that’s to be expected. I’d probably criticize something silly, like the timbre of my crying voice (the sound of my own voice always bugs me) or how undignified my kicking is.
But, if given the choice, I’d still choose to see it.
I wouldn’t because I think it would upset me. My mother and I both nearly died.
Now an ULTRASOUND of myself swimming in the womb: that’d rule. 
I totally would, that would be pretty amazing to see. Although nasty in a way too.
As long as my mum was comfortable with me watching it. I’d love to watch it, it’d be fascinating.
Knowing my father though, if he’d had a video of my birth he probably would’ve dragged it out at my 21st birthday party to show everybody and that wouldn’t be cool :rolleyes:
Yes, I think it would be fascinating.
I definitely would… (Mom had a C-seciotn)
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So you all would rather see them slicing a huge gaping HOLE in your mother’s abdomen rather than her coochie? I think some people around here have issues! 
I think it would be too weird, but it’s a nonissue, since if they’d even had video cameras when I was born, Mom would have quickly smashed any that came within about ten feet of the room where I was born, I’m sure.
I’m rather glad I never had to make that choice. If such a video existed, I’m sure eventually I’d watch it. It’s not so much the icky factor of seeing Mom’s junk as it is the seeing Mom in pain part that skeezes me out.
I dutifully instructed my ex-husband to divert the camera away from any National Geographic shots during my son’s birth. I now regret that, I planned to watch but there was entirely too much going on for me to do so. Maybe women with an epidural can manage it, but my eyes might as well have been sewn shut. There was a party in my uterus that required all my attention at that moment, Groucho Marx could’ve walked into the room and I would’t have noticed or cared.
The tape we do have of that momentous occasion has quite a few cool moments, just not the actual arrival. My son has seen it many times and thinks it rather cool, no squeamishness at all.
Nono, I was just indicating that my mom had a C-section as opposed to the natural…not that I would love to see my own birth because a C-section is so awesome. Did I make sense? Maybe I do have issues
No, I wouldn’t watch my own birth. Nor do I really want to watch anyone else’s. That’s all just too private for me. I could probably watch myself giving birth though.
Hmm, I got forceps & I knocked her out. That would be interesting to see.
I do have the opportunity, and hell no!
I would – I only got to see it from the inside before.
No. I was a C-Section too so I wouldn’t even have to see my Mom’s uh, er, you know, but I still wouldn’t want to.
Bet my wife would, though…
I guess from what I’ve seen (on TV only) c-sections strike me as ookier than vaginal births just because it’s surgery. Wonderful life-saving surgery, but I’d just rather not see my mom’s innards. Cootchie…eh, seen it. Not a big deal.
I’d think watching a birth would be fascinating, but I wouldn’t want to see mine. It’s enough to know that it happened, really.