Dolphin-assisted childbirth: Yes, it's a thing now
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Now you can add births with a dolphin "midwife" to that list.
The Barringers, from Charlotte, N.C., have made one trip to the Sirius Institute in Pohoa, Hawaii, in preparation for the birth, according to the Charlotte Observer, and will return around Heather's due date.
The institute, which aims to "dolphinize" the planet by connecting the dolphins with humans in all walks of life, including childbirth, claims the dolphins act as midwives and sometimes bring the baby to the water's surface.
http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/dolphin-assisted-childbirth-yes-its-a-thing-now
Does anyone else find this cruel and selfish? 
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What could possibly go wrong?
with a huge carnivorous wild animal waiting at the "exit"?
I love the line, {The dolphins} "sometimes bring the baby to the water's surface"
Does someone go down and get the babies the dolphins don't bother with?
It's really unbelievable. Aside from the absurdity of the whole story, as a factual matter, who in their right mind is going to take a flight to Hawaii when they're at or even near their due date? And which airline is going to allow them to fly so close to term? (Aside from Sarah Palin, if you accept her cockamamie story about flying to AK from TX while in labor the birth of her son. 
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Even within Hawai'i, no babies have been born on the island of Lana'i (the one Larry Ellison just bought) for years, because there are no birthing facilities there, dolphin-assisted or otherwise 
, and the moms have to fly up to O'ahu a month in advance. This important because the island of your birth is of high importance in Hawaiian culture; for instance, each island has its own birthstone (not amethyst or peridot or whatever, but a standing stone).
which later became a birthing center similar to this one.
My questions: How closely do the dolphins "assist"? Anything closer than "off to the side observing" is too close for comfort. Also, which dolphins are used? Adolescent males have been known to get frisky with human females, which could prove inconvenient, to say the least. 
Big Foot and Alien Assisted ones next!!! 
PB
Cruel to dolphins. Dangerous to babies. Dangerous to mama, too, when you think of the lack of sanitation.
I can only hope it is satire, but somehow I think that somewhere there are people addled enough to give this a try.
Make it a pitbull assisted birth at Olive Garden and make sure the mom breastfeeds the newborn on a bed of kudzu while an audience of e-cigarette smoking narwhals cheers them on.
Then you'd have something! 
PB
empathic, and I am pretty sure they are psychic.
They are very sad that some humans have so little awareness of this existence that they would hold them captive. Because the Sirius Institute does not hold our dolphin kin captive, I believe that they would be pleased to assist evolved humans with bringing their children into the world, and will come and assist of their own accord if they feel that is the right thing for them to do.
I don't see this as cruel and selfish, if it is the dolphin people's choice. It is certainly not cruel to the coming child; it is a special honor, from my POV. My baby was born sans epidural on a snow covered mountain with midwives attending the birth. A grandmother coyote, probably almost too old to hunt anymore, came and took one of our ranging hens in broad daylight. in my full view out of a picture window during labor. My son is named after grandmother coyote. He is pleased with his birth story, and pleased with how he was given his name.
I lived on a fairly remote beach on the Pacific Coast of Mexico for several years, and I was "adopted" by a dolphin family, and they would come visit me when I walked the beach alone almost every day for several years when I was not traveling elsewhere.
