Some mom bloggers are worried about privacy issues when it comes to their family life.  Pssh, amateurs.  Lynsee, 23, is planning on giving birth live on the internet.  Yep, everyone from squeamish teenage girls to pervy old men can see her child enter the world.  Is nothing sacred?  I mean, really, is nothing private anymore?!

Apparently, it is a publicity ploy for the site Moms Like Me, and the Web site's members will be able to comment during the birth.  Great, nothing like seeing, "Nice vag!" and "Puuuuuuush!" after you've spent hours in labor.  Classy.  The site does claim that no "graphic details" will be shown.  But we all know how live TV goes.  It's a precarious situation, to say the least.  But while most moms on the site were against an audience for their own deliveries, most were interested in watching (duh):

About 60 percent of moms said that they do not want anyone besides their significant other in the delivery room but, in another poll, the same percentage responded that they would be interested in watching a broadcast of a live birth. "You never know when you start projects like this, how they’re going to go,” Chapman says. "The response has been overwhelming, very supportive, very positive for Lynsee."

To me, though, it seems like this is reality TV gone one step further.  I mean, to each her own; Lynsee certainly seems gung-ho about the "project."  But what is the point?  To educate?  There are plenty of birthing videos out there; I watched one in ninth grade health class (ergh).  So, I have to wonder if, in this era of Octomom, the Gosselins, and our beloved Balloon Boy, it's not for the fame, which seems even more important than money these days.  Should the birth of one's child really be someone's cheap voyeuristic thrill?  Should a private family moment be traded for fleeting internet fame? 

Although I guess no real harm will come of this, I recoil at the idea.  It just seems wrong.  Would you broadcast your child's birth online?  Do you think this is bizarre, too?