My answer isn’t on the list of options.
I was 30, assisted in an emergency delivery in the back seat of a car.
Since we weren’t able to have bio-kids, we adopted. Since I was unaware of the Firebug’s existence at the time of his birth, I wasn’t in the room.
Since my wife (who turns 46 this month) is less likely than ever to either get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term, and since nobody else would have reason to ask me to be in the room while she gave birth, I think I’ve managed to miss out on that particular thrill.
I was in my late 30s, which was not an option in the poll. I do not have children of my own. I was the ‘coach’ for a friend of mine.
It was smellier than I expected.
Anyone over 19 who has seen a baby born has no answer in this poll.
My answer is 23.
All three of my own children were Caesarean so I wasn’t in the room with their births.
I was 45 when my oldest grandchild was born and she was the first baby I saw being born.
The poll options didn’t have a place for me to indicate that.
Present at the birth of my son.
You don’t have my option! Granted it is a fairly unsual one.
If your last choice had been “I’ve never seen a baby born” I could have checked that one. But instead you said the thing about never being in the room when a baby was born.
I was in the room when my son was born, but I was under general anethesia due to severe complications.
This.
I was present at my sister’s birth when I was ten.
You have become my new favorite poster. 
A few months ago, I went to the Philippines for nine days to do some research. We were mostly in Manila, but we went to a more rural region for a few days. While we were in Manila, some people in my group happened to meet the guy who’s the governor of the rural province we were about to visit, who was in Manila for meetings. I guess he was taken with them, so when we got to the rural area, we were treated like VIPs and invited to see lots of different stuff. We went to a hospital, and while it was totally unrelated to my own project, it was pretty interesting. At one point, our guide led us into a huge room filled with women and the newest of newborns all over the place in a chaotic mess. Our guide seemed to think this was an appropriate thing to show us, but we were uncomfortable and left almost immediately.
Later, one of my classmates told me he actually had seen a woman giving birth in that room. I didn’t see it, but I guess I was there. It was definitely up close and personal with the birthing process.
This, with both of my children. I studiously concentrated on my wife’s face and avoided looking at what was going on elsewhere. When they offered me the scissors to cut the umbilical cord I said, “That’s what we’re paying you for.”
Yeah, but I’m not eating Chinese at her house.
Never seen a baby born. Animals, yes, humans no.
I just watched my sister give birth last week. I’m 29, which is not a poll option. It was a home birth and very intense…crazy experience.
None of the above. Delivered a baby at work before I had my own child. Wasn’t really watching when it was mine.
I’m the one who answered under 5. My mom was pretty heavily involved in midwifery and homebirths, so I was around for a few different births as a kid and teen.
I’ve never seen it live, and I’d like to become a homebirth midwife!
Was I in the same room when I saw my daughter born? Well, Illinois state law forbade non-medical personnel in the same room (save for the mother) so I was seated in the doorway of the delivery room, but I saw her emerge. I was seated because they had had more than one father faint. The next child, 17 months later, I was babysitting the first. This was in Switzerland and I don’t think they would have allowed me in any case. With the third one, 6 years later, I was in the delivery room but standing right behind my wife so not much was visible to me. Still, it was interesting. I will not go mushy and say it was beautiful. It wasn’t. It was rather messy, in fact. But it was an experience I wanted to have.
It has bothered me a little that I have never seen a birth, human or otherwise, except driving by while a cow 100’ away in a field was having a calf. But at this point it doesn’t bother me much.
Even though I declined looking in the mirror (I thought it might inhibit my pushing if I saw what was happening to my perineum!), I’d say I witnessed my daughter’s birth. I was awake and aware and feeling everything, and I very vividly remember her being placed on my abdomen and looking at me.
Oh and the birth referenced in the link was witnessed by the three-year-old big sister, who also cut the cord.
Birth is amazing and emotionally overwhelming and wondrous. But it also involves a lot of blood, mucus, and shit, as well as screaming, groaning, grunting, and crying. It’s a weird combination of the base and the sublime.