'I am not hippy drippy': Woman who was desperate to give birth in the wild delivers her baby in a STREAM without a midwife - as footage of it is watched 52 million times

Good job there weren't any complications then.....

I'm all for natural births but what if something went wrong? You can have very natural births in hospital with minimal interruption/help from midwifes nowadays, if you ask in advance.

Okay, so at 7 months pregnant I definitely shouldn't have watched this!! Arghhhh!

Most Daintree water courses are homes to crocodiles.

I'm more shocked that she did this in the heart of croc territory! That's the crazy part!

I'd be concerned about the temperature of that water... should be 37 degrees for a newborn.

She posted it on YouTube as a gift to her partner wtf!

This sounds lovely and natural but when I had my second child she came out not breathing with blocked air passages. It was an emergency situation and it was only the excellent care of hopsital staff that she even survived. It was so close. So, not for me.

Maybe she should have kept this as a private matter. I am not sure she thought this whole thing through enough.... it's not the most intelligent thing since it is very risky to both her and the baby. Thankfully, it all turned out ok so enjoy your birth story and move along. Why do people feel the need to make everything into some type of public spectacle? I suddenly sound like my grumpy grandfather.....

Not sure about Australia's laws, just don't try that in Utah. There laws preventing even wading in certain streams as part of Utah's Clean Water Act. Many streams run toward water plants for human consumption. I don't want to drink your amniotic fluid, and I doubt anyone else would either.

As long as nothing goes wrong, but who knows ahead of time?

Hippy.

YES you ARE

Glad I was not downstream taking a drink!

Good job there weren't any crocodiles in that stream!!!!

How about you do what you want, but you don't film it and put it on youtube? You wanna film your birth? cool, keep it in your HOME movie collection.

Personally I do not agree with her choice, but since the beginning of time women have given birth in natural settings with no doctors. Today her choice was seen as foolish, but there was a time when it was the only choice.. Having two high risk pregnancies it would have cost my life and that of my childs. So many women and babies have died in childbirth why would you take that risk?

She is lucky everything turned out okay. Yes woman have being giving birth naturally for all of time but so many have died needlessly..I am so grateful to live in a country with health care available!!

All fine and wonderful but if something goes wrong then the mother and baby dies because there is no help available.

I learnt the hard way that mother nature can s h1 t on you big time. I once drank from a beautiful, crystal clear stream which bubbled downhill quite beautifully. Ahhh, i thought, this is how our ancesters sought refreshment on a cloudless day in the hills. So i quaffed away. Hmm not bad, i thought. Feeling oh so proud that i was at one with nature, i proceeded upstream on my walk. Not 100 yards hence...was a chuffing decomposing sheep lying in the stream. Severn Trent water only,for me now. Sod mother nature!