I have been lurking here for sometime, but now that we are getting ready for our own homebirth, I actually have stuff to contribute! 
My son (Asher) will be 4 in September. Asher has been watching "Born In Water" like 3 times a day since we got it. He loves watching the babies be born. He has that thing memorized. There is one point where one of the mothers says, "Honey! She's so cute!" and Asher always has to say it. If you haven't seen it, the movie is 6 different mamas giving birth in the water- just the last 3 minutes before the baby appears so it is pretty benign. The funniest is after one of the births, Asher always says, "Excuse me, Mama. That's the placenta." And he's right.
So Sunday night I was in the tub because I was so pregnant and achy. Asher woke up and wanted to see me. So I let him sit by me in the tub. I was kind of moaning because of the aches and he started rubbing my forehead and said, "Just breathe, Mama." I said I said, "That's so sweet, Asher!" He said, "I'm not Asher, I'm the midwife!" Then he pretended to check the fetal heart rate by putting his hand on my belly (in lieu of the doptone they use in the movie) and said, "Perfect! 131!"
My son (Asher) will be 4 in September. Asher has been watching "Born In Water" like 3 times a day since we got it. He loves watching the babies be born. He has that thing memorized. There is one point where one of the mothers says, "Honey! She's so cute!" and Asher always has to say it. If you haven't seen it, the movie is 6 different mamas giving birth in the water- just the last 3 minutes before the baby appears so it is pretty benign. The funniest is after one of the births, Asher always says, "Excuse me, Mama. That's the placenta." And he's right.
So Sunday night I was in the tub because I was so pregnant and achy. Asher woke up and wanted to see me. So I let him sit by me in the tub. I was kind of moaning because of the aches and he started rubbing my forehead and said, "Just breathe, Mama." I said I said, "That's so sweet, Asher!" He said, "I'm not Asher, I'm the midwife!" Then he pretended to check the fetal heart rate by putting his hand on my belly (in lieu of the doptone they use in the movie) and said, "Perfect! 131!"
My boys are so sold on homebirthing and natural birth. After our 3rd was born, the older two were *often* on my bed, playing "midwife," taking turns being the midwife and the mama. The funny thing was, they'd missed seeing that birth because it went super fast at the end (and they were out with Grandma). But I guess once the pool was taken down, the bed was the next obvious choice. 
