A woman gives birth on the shore of a beach without medical attention

For years now, women have proposed to have greater decision-making capacity over everything related to their pregnancy and final delivery.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
14 March 2023 Tuesday 04:08
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A woman gives birth on the shore of a beach without medical attention

For years now, women have proposed to have greater decision-making capacity over everything related to their pregnancy and final delivery. This has generated great debates in relation to giving birth without medical attention, which could lead to more or less risky complications. A few months ago, a woman gave birth on the shore of a beach and shared her moment through her social networks.

This is Josy Peukert, whose video giving birth at sea can be seen on her Instagram account, published in February. The moment of childbirth already accumulates more than 200,000 reproductions and as expected, it has generated a debate about the decision of this woman. Some consider it "brave" and others that it is too dangerous for both her and the baby.

The birth took place on a beautiful beach in Nicaragua. Josy Peukert was sure that she wanted a "free" birth, without any medical assistance. She wanted to show what a woman's body was capable of doing on its own, without medical help or intervention. This young German woman moved to Nicaragua a while ago and she assures that she "got this idea in my head: she wanted to give birth in the ocean."

For those who consider that her decision was all nonsense, it should be noted that Peukert did have some questions prepared prior to the time of delivery. “For weeks I controlled the tide, and when the right time to give birth came, I knew the beach would be safe for us,” her mother said.

This woman went into labor on February 27 and immediately afterwards her partner Benni Cornelius, 42, took her to the beach with the necessary material: towels, gauze and a container with a "sieve to catch the placenta". The couple's other children went with some friends to wait for her mother to give birth to her brother. In the video, which lasts just under a minute, it is possible to see Josy kneeling in front of the waves and shortly after, the image cuts out and the next thing that is seen is the young woman with her baby in her arms.