Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor
Date: 28 May 2013 Time: 11:15 AM ET
From water birth to hypnosis, the natural-childbirth movement has tried a variety of innovative methods to accommodate women who are uninterested in a medically assisted birth procedure.
But critics are now saying the natural-childbirth movement has completely jumped the shark — or, in this case, the dolphin.
Dolphin-assisted childbirth is an option that some expectant parents are embracing, claiming it is a more natural, relaxing way to deliver a baby.
Adam and Heather Barrington, a North Carolina couple expecting their baby to be delivered in July, have traveled to Hawaii to plan a dolphin-assisted birth at the Sirius Institute, the Charlotte Observer reports.
"It is about reconnecting as humans with the dolphins so we can coexist in this world together and learn from one another," Heather Barringtontold the Observer.
According to the group's website, the Sirius Institute is a new-age center with two primary goals: the establishment of human outposts in space through interplanetary travel, and the "dolphinization" of Earth through contact with the marine mammals.
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