Rob,
>Has anyone come across a good birth video that shows a birth followed by
>immediate breastfeeding without commercials?

I think it's shown on Desmond Moris's "Baby Watching", although that
isn't a birth video per se. Fascinating program, however :-)

>Also a question asked by nurses here that I wondered myself, Why are all
>these moms in the videos naked?

Because you get hot when you give birth, and lose all your inhibitions.
When I had my first baby in hospital, I threw my nightie off and it
landed on the foetal monitor. I couldn't bear anything touching me and
it seemed the logical thing to do. My bra ended up hanging off the
(unused) IV stand. I think most mothers having an active birth will tend
to strip off (at least according to midwife friends of mine).

>When my wife and I attended a prenatal class before our first baby the
>nurses showed a birth video with several births then told everyone they
>didn't not need to be naked to deliver. I think some of the primagravida
>moms were wondering.

But clothes get in the way and birth is hardly the time to worry about
modesty! :-) Put it this way, how many people have sex with all their
clothes on?
--
Anna H.
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