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Blogger live-streams birth to over 200,000 strangers to show reality of labour

Everything from contractions to taking her new bub home.

UK blogger Sarah-Jane Ljungstrom switched on her Facebook Live camera just after her waters broke in order to show people labour is nothing like the movies, reports The Sun.

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More than 200,000 tuned in to watch five live updates during the 24-hour birth – including everything from contractions, to how much she was dilated to her baby moving down the birth canal.

However, viewers did not see her new daughter being pushed out.

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“I’ve been vlogging about motherhood and my pregnancy this year so it was natural for me to do the same and share my labour,” Sarah-Jane told Channel Mum, an online community for mothers.

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“I was always looking for help and advice especially about the big things like labour (…) so I decided to share my own, to show a real everyday labour that other mums and pregnant woman could follow and see how it went. Birth isn’t really like the movies so showing a normal everyday labour story was nice.”

Speaking after the birth in a YouTube video, Sarah-Jane says she does not regret the move and if anything it was a very positive experience that she’d do again in a heartbeat.

“Emotionally it made me feel braver and more hopeful as I had the encouragement of women I knew had been there and done it. I got some great advice and read all of it.”

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This was Sarah-Jane’s third child.

You can watch all five live videos HERE

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