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" The New York Times recently reported on a surprising trend: women who are posting their birth videos on YouTube. Some say letting the whole wide world see your hoo-haa is crazy. Others say it&amp;#x27;s about time...***** Have you seen a real, live birth? Until I gave birth myself, I hadn&amp;#x27;t (other than the PG-rated video I watched with my husband in childbirth class). This is why some are applauding women, like Atlanta-based Sarah Griffith, who are sharing their birth videos on YouTube. Griffith, who posted several clips of her son Bastian&amp;#x27;s birth says she wasn&amp;#x27;t embarrassed to do so. &amp;quot;Childbirth is beautiful, and I&amp;#x27;m not a private person,&amp;quot; she said. It&amp;#x27;s a good thing: Her series of birth video clips have been viewed more than 3 million times. The New York Times explains that many people, Griffith included, post their intimate moments as a way to &amp;quot;demystify childbirth by showing other women--and their weak-kneed husbands--candid images they might not otherwise see until their contractions begin. If YouTube can illustrate how to solve a Rubik&amp;#x27;s Cube, pick a lock and poach an egg, maybe it can also demonstrate how to give birth.&amp;quot; What do you think of this? Would it scare you/scandalize you to see someone&amp;#x27;s birth video, or would you see this as helpful and instructive? More from Vitamin G: *Pregnant belly art--cute or not? *A home birth? Sorry, not for me. Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage. Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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