I have seen two friends video their birth, but never been there during the time. I was asked to tape one, but I ended up getting my tonsils out the week that my friend went into labor early with her preemie. I wondered what its like from the tapers point of view, esp. the dads, did you think you may have missed something? Or was it better to be able to video it?

My hubby and I decided not to take a video or photo during giving birth. We both don't like the idea of taking one because of the present of the blood. It's too messy for us.

The memory of the birth is already enough for me and taking a video of my wife having birth is not important anymore. A friend of mine led me to link of video of a mother giving birth and its so messy in my point of view. Those kind of videos are for medicine students to study how to properly deliver a child.

Well, if the father is planning to deliver the next child on its own then its a must to take a video of the first birth. :D:rolleyes:

I really want to but I cannot get anyone to agree to do it for me. My husband is squeamish and I will be lucky to get him in the delivery room at all, let alone looking at the business end of the birth.

I am still trying though.

I was not allowed to do that, the hospital had a rule against it, I was allowed to tape the labor part but as soon as they got ready to deliver the recorder had to be be turned off.

I don't think I would want that on tape. Yeah its an important event in your life, but a snapshot of the baby right after delivery is just as nice and doesn't include screaming, blood and possible profanities ;)

Well ,I always say,a picture is worth a thousands words...lol I would not want that on video.A few pics are fine leaving out the bloody part of child birth.I think if I taped it ,I would hurt evet time I saw it.:rolleyes:

I have a friend who video-taped the whole thing and one of my co-workers used his cell-phone to record the event. I was too busy trying to comfort my wife to do all that.

I want to tape our birth. I think I have convinced my sister to do it. My dad videoed all of our births, but not the crowning and what not. Though there is one point during my birth that my mother told my dad to "get that ******* camera out of her face". LOL!

I did not have the actual delivery process done but I do have a little tape with the labour process, it wasn't so bad, I hardly ever watch it though.

We didn't have a video camera for my first birth, which ended up being a section, and my second was a failed VBAC and a second section. We had a camera for that and my husband did video parts of it, and I LOVE having those shots, since I couldn't see what was going on. He also videoed (sp?) the 3rd.....

I'm not sure I would want a video of my own vaginal birth.....at least, I certainly wouldn't show it to everyone, LOL.

That's funny that you say that Urbanmom... because I'm not sure I'd want a video of my section, and I wouldn't want to show that to everyone! Though if I do for some reason end up with a c/s, I DO want it videoed. For some reason,to me, a section seems more... intimate(not quite the right word, but you know) than vaginal birth. weird? Like I wouldn't so much mind showing someone willing shots of a vaginal delivery, but shots of a surgical delivery seem more private.

I wouldn't want to be recorded while giving birth. My husband wanted to but I told him that there was no way I would let him do that.

I was in the delivery room with my wife when she bore Cham but I would never record any birth of my child. The memory of it should be told and not be seen.

It is better to tell how my son was born rather than seeing the film by himself. I would love to hear him someday asking "did I cry immediately?" or "do I have hair when I was born?".

Having a camera or camcorder was not an option for anyone in my family. I told them don't come in the room with one. I did not want pictures took of me giving birth.

Odd, I swear I've replied to this thread before, but I guess I didn't. I had both mine videoed, my dad did it each time. I love watching them, and we used the tape of my daughters birth to help prepare her for our son's birth (since she was there). I love that on both tapes we have that moment where I announce "it's a girl" and "it's a boy". And the sound of a newborn's cry gets me everytime.

We did not tape our child births, since it honestly was not something that either of us would want to watch again. The same goes for the children for that matter!

I doubt they would want to watch their own child birth either, but who knows?

We did take a few photos however!

Not really. We have some film from early in labor, but my son was an emergency C-section, so no video allowed. I do have some gory pics though.