Dad Live Streams Birth of His Son On Facebook

A father has live streamed on Facebook his partner giving birth — and caused mix reactions from people online.

As Facebook introduced its new feature Facebook Live, dad Fakamalo Kihe Eiki decided to give it a try — by live streaming his partner giving birth, which shocked most Facebook users.

CBC reported that Mr Eiki, a comedian, from Carmichael, California in the US, filmed a video of her partner Sarah Dome delivering their baby inside of the delivery room at Mercy San Juan Medical Center and shared the private moment publicly on his Facebook account.

He captioned the video: “Let’s try pushing baby out,” and shows Ms Dome’s contractions and pushes, while medical staff are seen to be encouraging her with relaxation techniques. Mr Eiki was also heard narrating everything that happened while his partner was in labour. “Come on, pop out, son! What are you doing in there?” Mr Eiki said.

The camera mostly stays focused on Ms Dome from the waist up, and the video lasted for 45 minutes and 39 seconds. As the video reaches 37 minutes, the baby is born healthy and well. “He is hairy, he’s got so much hair,” Mr Eiki said.

Huffingtonpost reported that the couple has named the baby Ngangatulelei HeKelesi, a Tongan name.

Ms Dome said she was surprised to know that her partner live streamed the delivery. She said she was aware that he was recording but did not know it was being live streamed on Facebook, but she didn’t mind it though.

“I was OK, I was just focused on pushing “¦ it is a beautiful thing, nothing to be ashamed of,” she said.

After live streaming the video, Mr Eiki then sent his gratitude to people: “Thanks guys for enjoying the gift of life with me”¦ lol come celebrate next weekend bbq if in area”¦”. He said that he decided to do this because he wanted his baby to remember the moment when he grows old by watching the video.

Despite more people liking the video, there are those who seemed to dislike the idea, but it has now gained over 230,000 views.

Source: Australianetworknews.com and Mirror.co.uk