Ok, so which MNer gave birth in my campsite this morning? I have some questions....

[TorchlightMcKenzie]

like, how did you fill the birth pool?
How did you keep hot?
How did you empty it?
Did you also deliver the placenta in the bell tent?

And many MANY more!

And, can I meet you? Am also in bell tent with 7 week old!

To be fair, I don't know who called the papers. It is rumoured to be them, but, thinking about it, probably most people would like it recorded in the papers if it took that much planning and prep?

I mean in normal circumstances, a good birth experience can have you wanting to shout from the treetops for a few days, even if you're pretty shy normally.

Wow. It sounds lovely in principle but I'm not sure I'd want to give birth with all the other campers around me. I'm surprised that it was a water birth as well - all those hose pipes from the showers doesn't sound particularly in keeping with a 'natural' birth.

Am I a bad person for thinking that her real first name is probably Claire. Or Jane.

shagmund, it's up to parents to decide how and when to explain the nitty gritty of childbirth to THEIR child, not to have it rammed down their earholes at 3.30am by an exhibitionist hippy while they are on their holiday, and presumably given they're at a festival, quite in need of their sleep. It's grotesquely selfish / self centred. Their tent could have been pitched anywhere, not right in teh middle of a festival campsite, requiring the use of everyone else's hot water.

Heh at 'I'm not Mylene Klass' .

Yes , fine lovely if you want to give birth in a tent, whatever. But don't spoil my festival hollering all night and hogging the showers ffs! And if that makes me a miserable bint, so be it, go and be an earth goddess somewhere else please. and I'm a bit of an old hippy myself

The late night shouting and hot water thing would have really pissed me off. Going to the papers is pure egotism. The whole thing makes me feel a bit icky.
I think she's called Carol.

shagmund I live in the Netherlands. I can assure you that birth does happen outside a hospital setting and is a normal life experience without surgery and doctors. and pain relief You have to have a bloody good reason to give birth in a hospital even if you want to! Home births all the way here.

I just wouldn't want my break ruined by a screaming hippy, or my son kept up all night listening to someone in pain when I have paid to be on holiday.

Father of new born said about fellow campers -

''But Chris said: ?They were fantastic. It was pretty clear what was happening and they just cheered Galadriel on and encouraged her with yells of ?go for it?. It was a lovely moment of true community spirit. ''

Really ??

Chris has twigs and mud in his ears from all the festivals he's been travelling through this summer and misheard "SHUT THE FUCK UP"

I was worried enough about waking up my neighbours when I had my home births. I would have hated loads of strangers hearing me give birth, which is why I wanted private home births, away from the strangers in a hospital.

Umm...

I don't know, it just seems rather self-centred and attention-seeking. Lovely for the parents, but not so good for surrounding campers who paid to attend a festival, not someone's birth experience. And the fact that they called the papers straight away - .

I think she's called Sharon

Dunno. Baby is VERY cute, and mother does look VERY well and they seem a nice couple. They have other friends with them.

What I find a bit odd is the temporary campsite is in the school field of the school they both attended!

'and encouraged her with yells of ?go for it?.

I wonder if some of the campers mistakenly thought she was having sex?

BadDayAtTheOrifice

i thought of calling the papers when DD was born

To be fair, it was a folk festival, I imagine that self-selected campers who were more than happy to participate in such an event :)

Besides, should you not be able to go anywhere or do anything around your EDD in case you go into labour and distress somebody?

Never did I worry about going into labour and 'distressing somebody'.

'inflicted'?

Oh ffs - don't be so Victor Meldrew.

It's a baby being born. My children would have responded to it with excitement.

Only in the land of the Daily Mail, hedge wars and fixation with queue jumping would you see people responding to a story of a baby being born at a music festival with complaints about the noise and accusations that the mother was unfairly hogging hot water.

Get back to Cash In The Attic and cease with the mean spirited cats bum mouths over this lovely story.

Am I missing out by not knowing wtf a 'hand-fasting' ceremony is?

Just googled it. Wasn't missing out at all what a load of hippy claptrap

Unbelievably selfish. Pitch your tent in your own bloody garden, hippy lady. I'd be furious if I'd paid money to go camping and a) me and my kids had to listen to screaming all night and b) we couldn't even have a sodding shower.

As for not even having the courtesy to tell the campsite owners and then running off to the papers.? Jeez Louise.

I like folk music; I don't like the screaming of others.

And planning on doing this and labour happening when you're not expecting it (i..e early) are too hugely different intentions.

Because she was definitely screaming all night wasn't she?

AND we know nobody else could use the any of the showers while she was in labour don't we?

Yeah, I guess a folk festival is a more appropriate place to give birth than say, Reading festival. Can you imagine?!

Still a bit at hogging the showers though. Oh well, as long as mum and baby are ok I guess it all worked out.