Dolphins - midwives

Women of Lithuania have a new option for childbirth - now they can receive help from the dolphins at Lithuanian Sea Museum -LNK reports (1Apr.2005). Construction of a special water tank is nearly over. The museum psychologist Ieva Kirkutyte will be the first woman to be in labor in the dolphinarium in around a month. She believes that dolphins will help to decrease the labor pains.

According to specialists infants born in the water don't experience stress of going from fluid environment of the mother's womb to air environment. They claim that babies, born surrounded by dolphins develop faster. According to research, they tend to have a gift - an ability to write and work with both hands. After delivery , female dolphins are supposed to treat the human baby as their own and help it reach the surface for the first breath. The mother and the baby should stay in the water to play with dolphins for around a half an hour after delivery.

Labor with dolphins has already been available in Odessa and Israel. Future mommies in Lithuanian Sea Museum are wellcome once a month.