Giving birth is something which needs to be done under proper medical supervision as anything can happen to mother and newborn at any moment of that. But Simone Thurber is an exception.
Simone Thurber is 43, a therapist, and a mom of four. When Thurber was ready to give birth to her fourth child in 2012, she knew she wanted this birthing experience to be different from the others. Her previous births had been at birthing centers and at home. Her plan for her fourth birth: To give birth in nature, unassisted. She’d watched a documentary showing Russian women giving birth in the Black Sea, and it inspired the trained doula on a “primal level,” she says, to do something similar.
Thurber tells SELF, “I just saw this footage and it was like my whole body responded and just went, ‘Oh my goodness‘. That feeling of connection to all of life is probably what hit me the most. We forget that we’re primal creatures and we can’t survive without the plants, and oxygen and trees and the water and sunshine…something spoke to me and I just wanted my child’s first experience when they came into life to see nature.”
But before going into labor she definitely took precautions, she contacted a local midwife and helicopter pilot in the area, asking them to be on standby should anything go wrong with the delivery. A year after her daughter, Perouze’s birth, Thurber edited over eight hours of labor footage into a 22-minute birthing video. You can watch the viral video here:
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