Legs Crossed, Knives Up: Labor & Delivery Compilation

This week, Melanie ventures into the worst part of 2007 internet, the wendigo finally gets his day in court, Brianne would rather get eaten than deal with someone crying but Melanie loves the aesthetics of it, we get a classic “I didn’t know I was pregnant” story at 42,000 feet, someone jumps out of a moving train, Melanie introduces a different kind of birth canal, someone has a baby up a tree with crocodiles, Brianne nearly walks out on the job over a nightmarish story, and Melanie is marked safe.SHOW NOTESContent warnings: traumatic births throughout but especially at 45:00-59:00, which includes gore.Links:2000 Mozambique floodA miracle baby from the tree is doing wonders.A Mozambican court has stripped parental powers from the country’s most famous child, Rosita Pedro MabuiangoBaby arrives by train, falls down the toilet - and livesBaby born in a treeBaby born on plane that happened to be carrying doctor and neonatal nursesFla. woman gives birth after wrecking her carFlorida woman gives birth in car wrecked in canalFundraiser for Lavinia Mounga by Alilia Kalina Lavaki: Lavi's Airborn BabyHawaii Pacific Health and North Kansas City Hospital Healthcare Workers Help Deliver Baby on Flight to Hawaii'I put the knife in and pulled it up. Once wasn't enough. I did it again. Then I cut open my womb'It's the 'baby being born while we're above the Pacific Ocean' for meMade Of Steel: Read How A Mother Of Seven Successfully Performed A Cesarean Section On Herself'Miracle' baby born in tree during Mozambique floods to turn 17'Miracle' baby comes to UKMom who gave birth on flight to Honolulu didn't know she was pregnantMozambique Tree Baby In DCMozambique's 'Treetop-baby' at 19Newborn Baby Survives Fall Through Train Toilet On Rail TracksNewborn falls down train toiletSelf-inflicted caesarean sectionThis Woman Performed Her Own Cesarean Section—and Survived Tree baby Rosita captures hearts around the worldTrue grit: the mum who delivered her own babyWoman gives birth in train toilet, baby slips through hole, is safeWoman Gives Birth to Son on Delta Flight to Hawaii